Gripping stories of armed self-defense by law abiding American citizens, woven into analysis of gun control laws and a broken justice system, and how they have failed to protect us.
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In America Fights Back, through vivid real-life stories of citizens forced to face the reality of violence, Gottlieb and Workman provide an accounting of America s crime problem largely ignored by mainstream media. --Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association of America
Americans love books in which the good guys win. Gottlieb and Workman are adding to that proud tradition with America Fights Back by documenting case after case in which gun-owning citizens who refuse to wear the label victim remain the winners. --Jill J.R. Labbe, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
During my years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving on the Judiciary Committee, I tired of listening to the arguments of one gun-control advocate after another endlessly repeat the same tired, baseless arguments in support of their efforts to disarm law-abiding American citizens. Now, in America Fights Back Armed Self Defense in a Violent Age, we have a well-written defense of the Bill of Rights that provides both sound substantive arguments in support of the right to keep and bear arms, as well as true-life stories of how the Second Amendment works in practice not just in theory. This book ought to be required reading for every Member of the House and Senate; and every occupant of the White House --Former Congressman Bob Barr
Americans love books in which the good guys win. Gottlieb and Workman are adding to that proud tradition with America Fights Back by documenting case after case in which gun-owning citizens who refuse to wear the label victim remain the winners. --Jill J.R. Labbe, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
During my years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving on the Judiciary Committee, I tired of listening to the arguments of one gun-control advocate after another endlessly repeat the same tired, baseless arguments in support of their efforts to disarm law-abiding American citizens. Now, in America Fights Back Armed Self Defense in a Violent Age, we have a well-written defense of the Bill of Rights that provides both sound substantive arguments in support of the right to keep and bear arms, as well as true-life stories of how the Second Amendment works in practice not just in theory. This book ought to be required reading for every Member of the House and Senate; and every occupant of the White House --Former Congressman Bob Barr
About the Author
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation is recognized as a member of the working press, maintaining active membership in the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He is listed in Who s Who in America, Who s Who in the World and Who s Who in American Politics. Alan has appeared on over 3,500 TV and radio talk shows, including the Lehrer News Hour, ABC s 20/20, CNN Crossfire, Fox TV, NBC Today Show, Larry King Live and Good Morning America. Alan is also President of radio stations KBNP in Portland, KITZ in Seattle, KITZ in Olympia and KSBN in Spokane and former Chairman of the Board of Talk America Radio Network with more than 700 affiliates coast-to-coast. Dave Workman is a career journalist, freelance writer and author. Now senior editor for the Gun Week, he spent 21 years as a senior editor and writer at Outdoor Empire Publishing. Workman began his career running a small-town newspaper and "stringing" for the Associated Press. Over the years, his byline has appeared in several newspapers and publications. Both Gottlieb and Workman have written several books.
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89 of 89 people found the following review helpful
By Safe Shooter
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
If "Castle Rock" and "Warren v DC" don't mean anything to you, start with Chapter 8; that's where Workman and Gottlieb review the fact that the police have no responsibility to provide you with any protection. This has been affirmed in court after court up through the Supreme Court.
With that as context, the remainder of the book gives the reader in a very engaging format a combination of scholarly works and anecdotal evidence that American can protect themselves from crime when allowed to.
The book provides evidence that right-to-carry laws have not led to the blood in the streets that many said. It shows that the lifting of the "Assault Weapons Ban" (sic) did not lead to an explosion in crime.
It also provides references to studies which show that gun control laws do not make any different in violent crime levels (a CDC study), and that, shockingly, criminals don't follow gun laws (a Department of Justice study).
Independent of which side of the gun debate you are on, this should be required reading so you can make an informed decision.
With that as context, the remainder of the book gives the reader in a very engaging format a combination of scholarly works and anecdotal evidence that American can protect themselves from crime when allowed to.
The book provides evidence that right-to-carry laws have not led to the blood in the streets that many said. It shows that the lifting of the "Assault Weapons Ban" (sic) did not lead to an explosion in crime.
It also provides references to studies which show that gun control laws do not make any different in violent crime levels (a CDC study), and that, shockingly, criminals don't follow gun laws (a Department of Justice study).
Independent of which side of the gun debate you are on, this should be required reading so you can make an informed decision.
100 of 104 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Reading this book is as though Workman and Gottlieb opened and read my own mind. Straight facts, no PETA like hyperbole, No Sarah Bradyish cries of WOLF!
There is an old joke that says "Liberal is a conservative waiting to be mugged." Personally, I didn't have to have the mugging before I realized I will never again allow myself to be disarmed. This book should be required reading in EVERY school in this country.
For Conservatives, this one is a dead on sermon to the believers. Now we need to target this book to every one of those in the "waiting to be mugged" line. We should also be demanding accountability from EVERY every public, appointed or elected official that allows such laws and criminal behaviors to continue. If a business wishes to disarm it's patrons, then the store should held accountable and responsible if one of those patrons is injured (or worse) by such policy.
It's time to remove the criminals from our society. It's time to remove the legislative criminals who allow such to occur from our society as well.
It's time, We the People have had enough of both sorts of criminal.
There is an old joke that says "Liberal is a conservative waiting to be mugged." Personally, I didn't have to have the mugging before I realized I will never again allow myself to be disarmed. This book should be required reading in EVERY school in this country.
For Conservatives, this one is a dead on sermon to the believers. Now we need to target this book to every one of those in the "waiting to be mugged" line. We should also be demanding accountability from EVERY every public, appointed or elected official that allows such laws and criminal behaviors to continue. If a business wishes to disarm it's patrons, then the store should held accountable and responsible if one of those patrons is injured (or worse) by such policy.
It's time to remove the criminals from our society. It's time to remove the legislative criminals who allow such to occur from our society as well.
It's time, We the People have had enough of both sorts of criminal.
88 of 91 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If Mr. Hayhoe is any indication of the educational level of what is leading the anti-gun crowd in Florida, can the rank and file members even find the "On" button on their computers?
With multiple misspelled words and tense errors (that means the subject and the verb don't agree, Arthur), and knee-jerk platitudes with no methodology or statistics to back his "arguements" (correct spelling is "arguments," Arthur), Mr. Hayhoe weakens his indefensible conclusions even further with poor syntax and an obvious unfamiliarity with the written word.
Some good advice, Arthur: Before you go challenging a book which has multiple statistical studies of its premise, you should first acquaint yourself with the spell-check feature on your computer.
But then, if you aren't going to familiarize yourself with studies whose methodology has been unchallenged, how could anyone expect you to worry about how foolish you would look ranting and abusing the English language?
Tsk. Tsk. Arthur. Next time, bring your brain--or at least a dictionary.
(Gordon Hutchinson is the author--with Todd Masson--of "THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS GUN GRAB," an expose' of the gun confiscation scandal in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and "THE QUEST AND THE QUARRY," a novel of hunting and family in the deep South.)The Great New Orleans Gun Grab
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The authors have assembled a comprehensive collection of citizen use of firearms in personal self-defense. Each page of this book tells stories of lives saved through the legal use of firearms.... Read more ›
With multiple misspelled words and tense errors (that means the subject and the verb don't agree, Arthur), and knee-jerk platitudes with no methodology or statistics to back his "arguements" (correct spelling is "arguments," Arthur), Mr. Hayhoe weakens his indefensible conclusions even further with poor syntax and an obvious unfamiliarity with the written word.
Some good advice, Arthur: Before you go challenging a book which has multiple statistical studies of its premise, you should first acquaint yourself with the spell-check feature on your computer.
But then, if you aren't going to familiarize yourself with studies whose methodology has been unchallenged, how could anyone expect you to worry about how foolish you would look ranting and abusing the English language?
Tsk. Tsk. Arthur. Next time, bring your brain--or at least a dictionary.
(Gordon Hutchinson is the author--with Todd Masson--of "THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS GUN GRAB," an expose' of the gun confiscation scandal in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and "THE QUEST AND THE QUARRY," a novel of hunting and family in the deep South.)The Great New Orleans Gun Grab
Review:
The authors have assembled a comprehensive collection of citizen use of firearms in personal self-defense. Each page of this book tells stories of lives saved through the legal use of firearms.... Read more ›
39 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book offsets the pervasive lie that firearms are rarely used in self defense. In fact, several university-level studies have shown that guns are used in self defense as many as three million times each year in the U.S.
It's a hoot that Authur Hayhoe of the Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, an anti-gun rights group, would post a a negative review (complete with misspellings)
If you wonder whether people actually do use guns to protect themselves and their families, read this book! From their own mouths, people describe how they were able to save their lives as well as the lives of family members, because they had a legal firearm.
The "Flat Earth Society" anti-gun rights folks like to pretend this isn't true, but real reports such as in this book ring true. If people are doing it, it's hard to convince the public that it never happens.
It's a hoot that Authur Hayhoe of the Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, an anti-gun rights group, would post a a negative review (complete with misspellings)
If you wonder whether people actually do use guns to protect themselves and their families, read this book! From their own mouths, people describe how they were able to save their lives as well as the lives of family members, because they had a legal firearm.
The "Flat Earth Society" anti-gun rights folks like to pretend this isn't true, but real reports such as in this book ring true. If people are doing it, it's hard to convince the public that it never happens.
34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'll admit I likely would never have read this book if my husband hadn't put it on my "required reading list". I'd read one other of Dave Workman's books on my own (about PETA), so I was familiar with the name and writing style.
I was not a gun person when we met, point in fact, I was a pacifist and and ambivalent, if not anti-gun. Having associated with my husband's family and the ranch (three miles from the border), my viewpoint changed relatively quickly, I had Geoffrey teach me to shoot.
After several border incidents, I am a complete convert, and America Fights Back is a perfect expression of how I feel about the subject
I was not a gun person when we met, point in fact, I was a pacifist and and ambivalent, if not anti-gun. Having associated with my husband's family and the ranch (three miles from the border), my viewpoint changed relatively quickly, I had Geoffrey teach me to shoot.
After several border incidents, I am a complete convert, and America Fights Back is a perfect expression of how I feel about the subject
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
What every law abideing person needs to read
This was written by a very well respected man . Any one that thinks we don't need guns to defend ourselfs has been watching to much TV. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Carl E. Iverson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well Written Book
We live in a violent time and this book brings that to the front. We all need to be able to protect ourselves in these times.
Published 16 months ago by DukesDad
4.0 out of 5 stars
Point of View
Very difficult to argue with the facts stated in this comprehensive and informative account of the devision between America's pro & anti gun factions. Read more
Published on August 14, 2010 by Film Freak
4.0 out of 5 stars
Only 4stars because I haven't read it yet...
but I LOVE "The Armed Citizen" in American Rifleman magazine. It's my favorite feature. As a matter of fact, I ordered this book just for the stories, not the tactics that may be... Read more
Published on July 17, 2010 by The Walleye Man
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wake-up Call..............
For those who worry about the recent increase in weapon ownership, please read this book. If nothing else, it clearly demonstrates, with actual cases, the need to protect your... Read more
Published on June 28, 2010 by jim duke
4.0 out of 5 stars
Armed self-defense
Excellent reference for upholding and defending the RIGHT to keep and bare arms. Must read for those either on the fence about armed self defense or those wishing to point out to... Read more
Published on April 27, 2010 by Joe Liberty
4.0 out of 5 stars
well worth reading
I wish to write a favorable review of "America Fights Back: Armed Self Defense in a Violent Age" in spite of and because some who purchased this text found fault with the works... Read more
Published on March 8, 2010 by 1LTLos
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Bought as a Gift
I bought this book as a gift for my husband, he enjoyed it. I have not personally read it.
Published on January 30, 2010 by K Hanson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Book: America Fights Back
If you like the "Armed Citizen" column in the NRA's "American Rifleman" magazine this is right up your alley. Read more
Published on October 5, 2009 by Robert S. Maroldy
2.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing book
This is a very disappointing book for several reasons. First, the authors devote way too many pages to anecdotal stories about people who have defended themselves with guns. Read more
Published on July 23, 2009 by Terry R. Nye
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