One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic

[TheGoodLife]

I was searching on Amazon for a different title, one that was pro guns and self defense, and I came across this title.

One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Speaker's Corner) (Paperback)
by Arnold Grossman (Author)

Has anyone here ever read this book?

It was published August 2006, so it isn't too old.

It says this about the book and author:

Book Description
This eye-opening essay examines the scope of gun violence in this country: its causes, its dangers, and its possible solutions. Part of the Speaker's Corner Books series designed to stimulate discussion on issues that shape our society, One Nation Under Guns takes a rational and reasoned approach to an emotionally charged issue.

About the Author
Arnold Grossman has had a varied career as a journalist, advertising executive, and media consultant. He has worked on campaigns for a number of ballot issues and Democrat candidates, including U.S. Senators Gary Hart, Tim Wirth, and Frank Church, Governors Richard Lamm and Bruce Babbitt, and many others. Following the Columbine school shootings in 2000, Grossman co-founded SAFE Colorado, a bipartisan anti-gun violence group. The group launched a successful ballot initiative to close the state's gun show loophole and were recognized by President Bill Clinton for their efforts. Grossman is the co-author of two political novels with Governor Richard Lamm. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

I'm going to get it just to read it and see what he is saying.

 

[nico]

One Nation Under Guns takes a rational and reasoned approach to an emotionally charged issue.

co-founded SAFE Colorado, a bipartisan anti-gun. . . group

successful ballot initiative to close the state's gun show loophole and were recognized by President Bill Clinton for their efforts

does not compute

 

[Uenoparker]

I believe that the book is discussed in one of the NRA magazines this month -- needless to say, they're pretty critical of it (according to the article most of his "facts" came from the Brady folks, etc.).

 

[MachIVshooter]

Grossman was in a debate with Dave Kopel a couple months back. He's a fairly smooth talker but, Like Barack Obama, dances around the real questions with some pretty fancy footwork. He did, however, find himself backed into a corner more than once when a member of the audience would not let his tiptoeing happen; when this was the case, he fell back on the usual anti nonsense of "x number of babies (meaning people under 21) are killed by guns each year" (of course, not differentiating between homicide, sucide, police shoootings, etc.). Further discrediting himself, his entire debate was backed up only with quotes and statistics from his own book (and a number of the quotes weren't even in the book, as Kopel pointed out).

He is well known and very disliked in this state, along with Tom Mauser and the rest of the post-Columbine gun ban crowd.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

I'm going to get it just to read it and see what he is saying.

To see the anti-gun sides of the arguments? You can do that by perusing the Brady and VPC websites.

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

Often people who are not logical try to tell everyone they are. Also, people who spread fear and hate often try to look rational and normal, even though they are not.

 

[TheGoodLife]

Uenoparker

I believe that the book is discussed in one of the NRA magazines this month -- needless to say, they're pretty critical of it (according to the article most of his "facts" came from the Brady folks, etc.).

I'm not yet a member of the NRA, so if you could find out which NRA magazine, I would appreciate it.

The book I was searching for on Amazon is entitled, Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime and Violence in America (Paperback)
by James D./ Rossi, Peter H./ Daly, Kathleen Wright.

The above book is mentioned in Chapter 10, "A Monopoly on Arms", in The State vs. The People (distributed by www.jpfo.org.

Apparently Under the Gun is the result of the research of three good sociologists who were given the task of researching Guns and Violence. The three admitted they had begun as anti-gun, but when they finished they were not anti-gun. The results were not what the Carter administration was looking for, so the report got buried.

There used to be some kind of review of the book at Amazon.com (according to The State vs. The People, p. 370), but I didn't see it.

 

[Green Lantern]

It's in America's First Freedom.

 

[cheygriz]

Methinks it is a strong natural fertilizing agent!

 

[Phaetos]

a bipartisan anti-gun violence group.

So what kind of violence do they employ?

 

[Kim]

I watched Grossman debate Dave Kopel on C-span a few weeks ago. His mind is made up and he lies. He probably does not know he lies but he does. He started off just flat out saying he did not understand why there is any discussion about gun control or the second amendment as there is absolutely NO right of an individual to own any firearm anywhere in the Constitution. He is an embaressement to any person with a brain. He was angry and hateful and down right scary.

 

[rangerruck]

iirw, this guy worked for the brady campaign, and other politicians who are very anti-gun, alomost as much as this guy is. Also, i think he is being sued over this book for making a bunch of claims that are just completely made up out of whoe cloth, or complete lies told about someone or something that just didn't occur.

 

[K-Romulus]

Kopel has more info on his webstie

Including a link to a video of the debate.

Kopel website here:http://www.davekopel.com/

Here is a direct link to Kopel's review of Grossman's book: http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Speech/One-Nation-Under-Guns-an-Essay-on-an-American-Epidemic.htm

It was way too long to post here.

Here is a link to a PDF of Kopel's shorter article in America's First Freedom: http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Mags/One-Nation-Under-Guns.pdf