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Title: That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Halbrook, Stephen P. Halbrook ISBN: 0-945999-38-0 Publisher: Independent Institute Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read for Civil Libertarians
Comment: Stephen Halbrook's classic scholarly work should be read by all concerned with our civil liberties, and in particular, our second amendment right to keep and bear arms. The text leaves no doubt that the right is an individual one and that the militia is NOT the National Guard or some select militia, but the people themselves. Anyone who believes that the right is intended for a National Guard or select militia has ignored the fact that our Founding Fathers were very concerned about a select group having arms while the general population went unarmed. Also, Halbrook's review of the debates on the ratification of the 14th amendment clearly show that the second amendment is covered by the 14th amendment. Halbrook also describes how some states discriminated against freed slaves by denying them their second amendment rights.
Overall, this is an excellent learned treatise. After you finish with this book, try reading any book or article by David Kopel, Stephen Halbrook, Don Kates or Clayton Cramer (to name only a few of the second amendment scholars).
Rating: 5
Summary: Definitive Work on Second Amendment Rights
Comment: This is an extremely lucid, devoid-of-emotion tracing of the philosophy of the citizen's right to bear arms. After reading this book, anyone (anti-gun or not) would have a difficult time not understanding that citizens remain free by virtue of their being armed. The disarming of populations is one of those constantly repeating dramas of most governments through history. This text reveals how the people fall for "logical reasoning" every time, always thinking their society has evolved beyond the need of armaments. We are made to feel it is a nasty business when citizens are armed to protect themselves from tyranny. After all, we are being "taught" that our government is there precisely to protect its people from tyranny. Fall for that one, and I've got a bridge to sell to you. Government remains well-meaning as long as its citizens are armed. Read this book, and you won't feel the politically correct pressure to disdain the concept of an armed, free citizenry, just as the founding fathers of our country intended. Arms are not just for hunters. If you accept that premise, you lose the right to bear arms, eventually, because they outlaw hunting. The right to bear arms keeps us free and law abiding, if not more honest. You are finished when only the government and criminals have guns. It's hard to tell them apart.
Rating: 1
Summary: Pure Propaganda
Comment: The author of the book, Stephen P. Halbrook, is an NRA attorney. That being the case, the content of the book is quite predictable. The title of the book is indicative of how the author distorts the truth by tearing quotes out of the historical context. When Patrick Henry spoke the words,"that every man be armed," he was not advocating an individual right. He was concerned about how to best to ensure that every man serving in the militia was armed. Patrick Henry also tried to use his influence to stop Virginia from ratifying the Bill of Rights proposed by the first Congress. Ultimately, he failed. Why should Patrick Henry be used as a source to understand a document that he opposed? The very language of the second amendment strongly indicates that it protects a collective right.
The first amendment protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble." Its quite clear that the word "people" is being used collectively here. We don't think of one individual assembling, but rather of a large number of people assembling as a group. How about the second amendent? The right of the people to bear arms is tied to the militia, a collective organization. This is the kind of book that people read to reassure themselves that they right, not the kind of book that you read to discover the truth.
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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: The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong by John R. Lott, John R., Jr. Lott ISBN: 0895261146 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 01 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 Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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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: 0761525580 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Tyranny of Gun Control by Jacob G. Hornberger, Richard M. Ebeling ISBN: 0964044773 Publisher: Future of Freedom Foundation Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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