The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth about Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment

by Richard Poe

Book Overview

Today, the right to own a gun is under assault like never before. Every time a firearm is used in a high-profile crime, calls for stricter gun regulation-even outright prohibition-are pounded into us... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761525580
• ISBN13: 9780761525585
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Very best read.

This is perhaps the most through overall presentation of this issue. Poe presents actual facts not rhetoric. He clearly defines the issue and supports his position with actual facts not prejudicial rhetoric. In a topic where the media has created hysteria, he clearly defines the logic of the situation. This book should be read by all clear-headed people. Poe should be required as a reading supplement to the work of John Lott.

Must for anyone interested in gun control.

Anyone who is interested in the gun control debate, whether they are on the gun rights side, anti-freedom (pro-gun control) side, or still sitting on the fence, would do well to read this book. For the gun rights advocates, this book will serve as valuable ammunition against the fear monger liberals who's arguments rely only on emotional pleas to the weak minded. If you're a gun control advocate, you are in serious need of this book. It's time to engage your brain and look at the facts. As for those still sitting on the fence, if this book can't push you in the right direction, nothing can.In very clear and straightforward language anyone can understand, Richard Poe dispels each and every argument the left has made against guns in the course of the debate. Just see the table of contents above (great feature). Each myth named, he dispels quite clearly and concisely. Not only are the empirical statistic based arguments there, so are the logical and historical arguments. Even if you're relatively new to this topic and haven't done much research on the issue before, this would be the book for you if you are now interested in getting your feet wet. As he dispels the arguments of the left, he also lays down the case for the right.If you've found yourself believing any one of those myths outlined in the table of contents, or unable to respond to those arguments from the left, this book is for you.

Well done popularized version of earlier work

This book is a fast read, and it serves a useful niche taking the research done by others and presenting the work in such a way that it is easily understood by a wide audience. While the book addresses second amendment issues, the biggest emphasis is on how gun control increases crime. It is on this last point that the book relies very, very heavily on John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime and his op-ed pieces. Even though I had read Lott's book, I hadn't read some of his op-ed pieces, so I still got something out of even this discussion. I also think that Poe does a good job of simplifying some of Lott's discussions. My bottom line: is that Poe's book is still a valuable addition to Lott's book.

Finally, the Other Side of the Gun Control Debate

Poe's work is so important because it gives the other, and more importantly the correct, side of the crime and gun control debate. The media has lost all pretense of objectivity and just presenting the facts. Instead they have become the biggest proponents of gun control.Lacking the depth of analysis of John Lott's fabulous book, "More Guns, Less Crime," Poe's book still fills an important void in the logical argument that needs to be presented. This is a book every freedom-loving person, and especially woman, in America should read. If you are already a believer in the Second Amendment, this book will give you added ammunition (forgive the pun) in your ability to convince opponents of the errors in their thinking. If you are anti-gun, this book will shatter your preconceived notions and the illogic of the fireams prohibitionists' claims.The seven myths that are continually and emotionally espoused, but rationally and logically exposed as totally false by Poe, are:Myth 1: Guns Increase Violent CrimeMyth 2: Pulling a Gun on a Criminal Endangers You More Than the CriminalMyth 3: Guns Pose a Special Threat to ChildrenMyth 4: The Second Amendment Applies Only to MilitiamenMyth 5: The Second Amendment Is an Obsolete Relic of the Frontier EraMyth 6: We Should Treat Guns the Same Way We Treat Cars, Requiring Licenses for All UsersMyth 7: Reasonable Gun-Control Measures Are No Threat to Law-Abiding Gun Owners

The Perfect Pro-Gun Book

The Seven Myths of Gun Control is a GREAT book. I just finished reading this book last night. You absolutely must read this book if you are a 2nd ammendment supporter! Especially if you are male. I read this one from cover to cover right after I finished John Lott's book More Guns, Less Crime, and it is a great companion book to that one. Lott's book is full of great information (statistical data), but it reads like a college textbook. Poe's book is a smooth, interesting & a quick read. It was hard to put down. I sat up evenings reading this and I took it to work to read at lunch. Now I want my son, my wife and my co-workers to read it. I recommend it as required reading for anyone who feels that owning and carrying a gun is your God-given right.

New information and convincing arguments

As a firearm owner and supporter of the right of self-protection, I thought that I was familiar with most of the information on liberty and guns. Thankfully, this book proved me wrong.Mr. Poe includes so much new and astounding information, I had to stop reading on several occasions and ask myself if the stories were true. Of course, statistics and news items were supported with references that the interested reader could use as a starting point for further research. Even if you are familiar with the history of the Swiss militia or with comments made by prominent anti-self-defense hypocrites, this book explores stories and angles untouched by the mainstream media. Additionally, the epilogue ("The End of Manhood") provides the author's insight on the left's attempt to eradicate masculinity from American culture.I am going to buy additional copies of this book and send them to my misguided, gun control supporting friends. I know that if I still believed as they do, this book would force me to question my life philosophy.