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Politics


Shooting The Bull, by Gun Facts author Guy Smith, teaches you to spot political lies in real time while exposing the long and lying history of the gun control industry (and it is an industry — just ask their former employee Barack Obama).

Shooting the Bull serves two purposes. First, it catalogs the common canards of politicians and activists. Readers will recognize how they have been psychologically scammed by special interests and deceived by elected sycophants. The second purpose of Shooting the Bull is to document the deceits peddled by the gun control lobby.

Each chapter is devoted to at least one major initiative proffered by anti-gun activists, exposing their falsities through dissection of their motives, methods and inconvenient facts.


Gun/Crime Facts and Statistics 


Targeting Guns : Firearms and Their Control: This classic work by Gary Kleck is a studious tome by a revered criminologist.  Targeting Guns is the original source of the "2,500,000 defensive uses" data as well as a wealth of other information.  Between this and John Lott's masterwork, the gun control industry has met its statistical demise.

One of the most important aspects of Kleck's book is that even those who support gun control are completely unable to refute the data and conclusions herein.  Important data is clearly summarized at the end of each chapter and thus the book makes a good reference.

Lest anyone tell you Kleck is "pro gun", know he is a prototypical academic and even includes assessment of pro-gun myths in this work. 

More Guns, Less Crime:  Considered by many the best statistical analysis of the lack of effectiveness of gun control available.  Prof. Lott analyzed multiple tiers of data for EVERY county in the U.S. and confirmed that gun control laws have one effect on crime - it increases it.  Particular study is made of the grand concealed carry experiment which has made it possible for people in 90% of the United States to carry firearms in public ... and with violent crime rates dropping as a side effect.

2nd Amendment Origins

That Every Man Be Armed : The Evolution of a Constitutional Right: Hailed by many as the best distillation of the twin rights of the individual and militia to keep and bear arms.  Noted left-of-center law professor Sanford Levinson said of this book "provides indefatigable research into the second amendment, and all serious scholars will eternally be in its debt."

For the Defense of Themselves and the State: This is the masterwork of Clayton Cramer, recently made more famous by his deconstruction of Michael Bellesiles's rather silly notion that guns were scarce in colonial America.  This book covers the European origins and legislative history of the Second Amendment, details some 200 state and US Supreme Court decisions concerning the amendment, and discusses issues such as the role of racism in the passage of gun control laws during Reconstruction.  This is not light reading.

The Origin of the Second Amendment: This is a dense, but complete compilation of 500+ documents that had a direct bearing on the creation of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  For the scholarly minded or the 2nd Amendment warrior in need of reference materials.  Most importantly are the details of the votes and debates in the House and Senate over the Bill of Rights, and the evolution of the wording of the Second Amendment, which shows with clarity that it was and is an individual right.

 

 

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