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Title: Outgunned: Up Against the NRA--The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control by Peter Harry Brown, Daniel G. Abel ISBN: 0-7432-1561-3 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Fuzzy Thinking and Whining Predominate
Comment: The authors start out the first chapter by explaining in detail exactly how sleazy and scummy the principal players on the "anti-gun" side are. Most of these lawyers would have to get an integrity transplant just to work their way up to scumballs. They are professional ambulance chasers, in the words of the authors!!
Chapter Two tells us how political opportunists in Chicago tried to blame others for their inability to regulate the most regulated industry in America. Instead of stopping criminal behavior, they merely document it for the evening news, while blaming "profit seeking manufacturers" for not doing a job specifically charged to the Federal and State governments.
The rest of the book is more of the same. Any honest and fair reading will realize that it is mostly a weak-minded liberal whining catharsis, where they even try to blame their failure not on their wrong thinking and philosophy, but on someone else (in this case the NRA).
As much as anything else, this book is a prime example of what is wrong with education in America today. Arguments are weakly presented, poorly thought out, and make no attempt at inciting discussion. Instead, the authors make use of the time-honored methodology of demonizing their critics and name-calling worthy of a six year old child.
Perhaps what we really need is a book about how America is being held hostage by lawyers, who have brought the threat of litigation to a point where innovation is stifled, hiring is inhibited, medical care is about to collapse, and hot coffee is just a memory.
Rating: 1
Summary: --more of the same garbage--
Comment: --scuzzball ambulance chasers,flush with success after the tobacco "victory" go for guns. Disappointingly, they find a much smaller pot of money is available but go ahead anyway--I am sure expecting another win on their way to suing fast food for "obesity" and and then on to car manufacturers for selling cars that can be traced to drunk and incompetent drivers--enough there to keep another generation of lawyers in the upper income class.
Unfortunately, they ran into a speedbump on the way--four million NRA members.
This book is a largely a repeat of Handgun Control, Inc., misinformation, lies, embellished with the personalities of the ambulance chasers, big-city machine politicians and slams at NRA personnel--full of technical errors--Glock "revolvers", etc--
Rating: 1
Summary: How wrong-headed can you get?
Comment: The authors of this book have a very strange idea about how things are supposed to work in the United States of America. According to our Constitution there are three branches of government and the people, under the First Amendment, are free to petition those branches as they chose. The NRA is a member-supported organization of gun owners who want to protect their right to keep and bear arms, as specified in the Second Amendment. As such it has a right to lobby and petition in their behalf. Charges that they have "undue influence" are ridiculous. They have exactly as much influence as the members are willing to pay for, just as any anti-gun organization would have. It just happens that there are more people who are willing to speak with their wallets in behalf of their rights than there are people willing to support legislation and litigation that would undermine those rights. The NRA does have one advantage: their position is supported by the Constitution.
The authors posit a new "branch of the government" that is not supported by the Constitution: trial lawyers. This "branch", which has made billions of dollars effectively writing law outside normal channels, now wants to attack the Second Amendment on behalf of the relatively small group of people who think that private citizens aren't bright enough to handle firearms and that they don't need them to protect themselves against criminals. This is despite the fact, as documented by Dr. John Lott, that crime rates are lower in areas where it is easier for private citizens to own guns, and even lower in jurisdictions where they are allowed to carry concealed firearms for self-protection. Since the anti-gun crowd knows it will never get a Constitutional amendment and serious anti-gun laws would be found unconstitutional, it is trying to sneak its gun control position under the door by harassing legitimate businesses with endless lawsuits.
If you are desperate for support for your anti-gun sentiments, this is the book for you. If you want the truth, look elsewhere.
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Title: Under Fire: The Nra and the Battle for Gun Control by Osha Gray Davidson ISBN: 0877456461 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches by Josh Gottheimer, Bill Clinton, Mary Frances Berry ISBN: 0465027520 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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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: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th Ed) by Joseph Gibaldi, Phyllis Franklin ISBN: 0873529863 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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