America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age [Hardcover]

Alan Gottlieb (Author), Dave Workman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 2007

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

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

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Merril Press; First Edition edition (October 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936783508
• ISBN-13: 978-0936783505
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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85 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good read to understand the subject, December 16, 2007

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This review is from: America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age (Hardcover)

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.

97 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My own mind, December 11, 2007

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Geoffrey F. Beneze "geoffbeneze" (Tempe, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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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.

86 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anti-Gunner is Spelling (and Reason) Challenged, December 23, 2007

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Gordon H. Hutchinson (Baton Rouge, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age (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. Each page expounds the authors' belief that the 21st century is a violent age, police are reactive forces that come after a crime has occurred, and smart citizens arm themselves and become proficient with their firearms.

In one of the most telling quotes on the age in which we live, the authors state on page 23: "...violence does not erupt on schedule and criminals do not make appointments in advance."

It is for this reason, the most popular feature in all National Rifle Association magazines is the "Armed Citizen." This section recreates incidents of citizens defending their lives with firearms. And it is the first feature most readers turn to when they open the pages of any NRA publication.

"American Fights Back--Armed Self Defense in a Violent Age" reads like an expanded "Armed Citizen," with hundreds of stories of citizens saving lives with guns contained within its heavily researched 200 pages.

This book has become my most consistent reference in a large library of gun-rights and firearms activist books and publications. And it would be equally important to any gunowner by proving that "Nanny-Statist" theories the police will protect you will never work. The only people who will survive an armed encounter with a societal predator are those who are likewise armed.

These are the stories you rarely see in the media--the stories of the victims who fought back, and because they had a gun, survived. In hundreds of stories the authors describe the thugs who attempted to rob, rape, or kill innocent victims who, because they had a gun, turned out to be not so helpless--and stopped the attack on themselves or someone else.

This is an important book, and one that should be in the library of every gun owner serious about protecting his God-given right of self defense and personally arming himself.

Get "America Fights Back," and add it to your library. It will make you a wiser and more defensive gun owner, and a more vigilant defender of your rights. And it will give you a ready arsenal of answers the next time someone tries to tell you why we shouldn't be armed.