Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns

by Josh Sugarmann

Book Overview

Gun-control advocates of every political stripe routinely call for trigger locks, "smart guns," or the licensing of handgun owners and the registration of their weapons. But as Every Handgun Is Aimed at You reveals, none of these measures is likely to have a significant effect in reducing the epidemic levels of gun violence in American society. Josh Sugarmann makes the convincing case that the only way to reduce gun violence is to ban handguns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565847059
• ISBN13: 9781565847057
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Read this book to admire the work of a great propagandist.

Read this book not as a scholarly review of the gun debate, but as a way to study one of the great propagandists of our time. Josh Sugarman is the most influentual force within the gun prohibition movement and has invented some of its most ingenious and effective sound bites.Before Sugarman, nobody had heard of the term "assault weapon", which has since been used as a powerful club to beat gun rights supporters. Ever since this success, the anti-gun marketing campaign has relied on emotion-laden labels like "hidden guns" and "Saturday night special." The title "All Handguns Are Aimed at You" is a classic example of his emotional fear mongering that is specifically designed to bypass any logical filters in the reader's mind.Sugarman has chosen to pursue a strictly emotion-based strategy to convince people to ban guns. He either ignores facts or makes them up. The success of this approach has attracted other anti-gun zealots like Bellesiles and Kellerman who have a similar disregard for the truth. In spite of his tactics, one must admire Sugarman for his straightforward position that handguns must be totally banned. He admits that half-measures like licensing and registration are useless.Don't buy this book to support the author. Sugarman's Violence Policy Center is lavishly funded by grants from left wing foundations and wealthy limousine liberals who know that they will still have access to guns (or armed bodyguards) when the lower classes have all been stripped of the right to self defense.Do buy this book to add it to your collection of historical works. Place it on the shelf right beside "Mein Kampf".

An opportunity to study one of the great propagandists

- Read this book not as a scholarly review of the gun debate, but as a way to study one of the great propagandists of our time. Josh Sugarman is the most influentual force within the gun prohibition movement and has invented some of its most ingenious and effective sound bites.Before Sugarman, nobody had heard of the term "assault weapon", which has since been used as a powerful club to beat gun rights supporters. Ever since this success, the anti-gun marketing campaign has relied on emotion-laden labels like "hidden guns" and "Saturday night special." The title "All Handguns Are Aimed at You" is a classic example of his emotional fear mongering that is specifically designed to bypass any logical filters in the reader's mind.Sugarman has chosen to pursue a strictly emotion-based strategy to convince people to ban guns. He either ignores facts or makes them up. The success of this approach has attracted other anti-gun zealots like Bellesiles and Kellerman who have a similar disregard for the truth. In spite of his tactics, one must admire Sugarman for his straightforward position that handguns must be totally banned. He admits that half-measures like licensing and registration are useless.Don't buy this book to support the author. Sugarman's Violence Policy Center is lavishly funded by grants from left wing foundations and wealthy limousine liberals who know that they will still have access to guns (or armed bodyguards) when the lower classes have all been stripped of the right to self defense.Do buy this book to add it to your collection of historical works. Place it on the shelf right beside "Mein Kampf".

The Title Says it All

At last someone is willing to articulate a solution to our nation's gun madness that will work: ban handguns. Why has this common sense approach fallen off the radar screen of public debate in the last 25 years? Sugarmann lays out the case for a handgun ban in a concise, accessible way. It's simply the only solution that will prevent future Columbines and Santees. The title says is all. Every Handgun is Aimed at You is a must read for anyone who cares about the future of this gun-obsessed country.

Best laugh I've had all year

I borrowed the book from the local library, with a real request to "lose it". I will tell you that I've never had a harder time trying to follow such "logic" as is represented here. Each quote, statistic, and "fact" that I reviewed for myself from the stated footnotes turned up nothing but false and "creative" writings on Sugarman's behalf. I've heard (and understand) the principle of "fuzzy logic" as it pertains to computers but I did have a hard time with the "fuzzy math" outlined within the pages of this book. I gave the book 5 stars; not for factual aspects (which I've yet still to find) but due to the great job it's doing lining my birds cage. I feel sorry for the many trees that had to die to print the book. It's not only a waste of money at regular price; it's a double waste of money at it's reduced price.