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Title: The Seven Myths of Gun Control : Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment by Richard Poe ISBN: 0-7615-2425-8 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must for anyone interested in gun control.
Comment: Anyone who is interested in the gun control debate, whether they are on the gun rights side, anti-freedom (pro-gun control) side, or still sitting on the fence, would do well to read this book. For the gun rights advocates, this book will serve as valuable ammunition against the fear monger liberals who's arguments rely only on emotional pleas to the weak minded. If you're a gun control advocate, you are in serious need of this book. It's time to engage your brain and look at the facts. As for those still sitting on the fence, if this book can't push you in the right direction, nothing can.
In very clear and straightforward language anyone can understand, Richard Poe dispels each and every argument the left has made against guns in the course of the debate. Just see the table of contents above (great feature). Each myth named, he dispels quite clearly and concisely. Not only are the empirical statistic based arguments there, so are the logical and historical arguments. Even if you're relatively new to this topic and haven't done much research on the issue before, this would be the book for you if you are now interested in getting your feet wet. As he dispels the arguments of the left, he also lays down the case for the right.
If you've found yourself believing any one of those myths outlined in the table of contents, or unable to respond to those arguments from the left, this book is for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: New information and convincing arguments
Comment: As a firearm owner and supporter of the right of self-protection, I thought that I was familiar with most of the information on liberty and guns. Thankfully, this book proved me wrong.
Mr. Poe includes so much new and astounding information, I had to stop reading on several occasions and ask myself if the stories were true. Of course, statistics and news items were supported with references that the interested reader could use as a starting point for further research. Even if you are familiar with the history of the Swiss militia or with comments made by prominent anti-self-defense hypocrites, this book explores stories and angles untouched by the mainstream media.
Additionally, the epilogue ("The End of Manhood") provides the author's insight on the left's attempt to eradicate masculinity from American culture.
I am going to buy additional copies of this book and send them to my misguided, gun control supporting friends. I know that if I still believed as they do, this book would force me to question my life philosophy.
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding argument for armed citizenry
Comment: I've long been an advocate of the Second Amendment and have digested lots of writing about it, and Poe's book is among the best I've read. His arguments are grounded in common sense, and he presents plenty of evidence to support his claims.
My opening sentence's inclusion of the Second Amendment surely has a lot of anti-gun advocates interrupting with, "but the Second Amendment was about the militia, not the people." Poe sweeps that argument into the dust pan by examining the circumstances surrounding the creation of the Second Amendment, and also pointing out that a government hardly needs to stipulate the legality of arming its troops. With the misinterpretation argument finished, the anti-gun advocate would switch tactics by saying that those were different times. Poe shoots that down by showing plenty of instances around the world where disarmament proved catastrophic for the people, then talks about the Swiss system of armed citizenry that has served that country well. Poe continues in this way to counter the anti-gun spin.
The seven myths addressed, Poe digs into issue of declining masculinity and its causes. He also poses a few interesting questions about the psychology of some "poisoned crusader" anti-gun activists.
One issue Poe didn't directly address is what I like to call the pact of mutual weakness. Some people distrust their neighbors and believe that keeping everybody in a position of equal strength, and keeping that level strength weak enough to be easily controlled by the government, is the best way to keep society in check. But if you've read Poe's book, the response to that idea is obvious. Criminals will always exist, and obligating people to exist in the naive hope that the constabulary will always be there for them is to relegate the society to sheep that for the flock's (or maybe shepherd's) interests must occasionally be sacrificed to the wolf.
You have a few choices. You can read this book and learn about the argument for armed citizenry, you can pretend the whole issue doesn't apply to you, or you can call Poe a monster for evening taking up the issue. The first choice is the most responsible. Taking the other two would just be cheating yourself.
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Title: The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong by John R., Jr. Lott ISBN: 0895261146 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr. ISBN: 0226493644 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Little Handbook on the Second Amendment: What the American aristocracy Does Not Want You to Know. by Joseph L. Bass ISBN: 0966935918 Publisher: The Downhome Enterprise Pub. Date: 03 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Guns, Freedom, and Terrorism by Wayne LaPierre ISBN: 0785262210 Publisher: WND Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Stephen P. Halbrook ISBN: 0945999380 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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