Curious: Has Anyone Read "America Fights Back?"

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This may seem self-serving, but it's not, really.
Anybody here read "America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age" (my new book with Alan Gottlieb).

If so, I'd like to know:

a) Where you got it (what book shop, or on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble or where)

b) what part of the country you're in

c) If you got it on recommendation from someone, read about it on the internet somewhere, or just buy books like this

d) (naturally!) What you thought about it

I'm always looking for feedback on my paltry screed.
 
If so, I'd like to know:

a) Where you got it (what book shop, or on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble or where)- Amazon.com

b) what part of the country you're in - California

c) If you got it on recommendation from someone, read about it on the internet somewhere, or just buy books like this - internet

d) (naturally!) What you thought about it - good book

I'm always looking for feedback on my paltry screed.
 
This may seem self-serving, but it's not, really.
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You say "self-serving" like its a bad thing.

Personally, I never heard of the book. Perhaps you could post a small blurb or a link to one.
 
Reading it Now

I purchased this book from Amazon after seeing it mentioned on a Second Amendment alert. I am only about 50 pages in so can't offer much in the way of comments. I was impressed with the fact that it is so current that it has the murders of the Petit family.

John
Charlotte, NC
 
Dave, I'm just now buying one and will provide feedback as soon as I read it. In the meantime:

1) Amazon
2) Redmond, WA (member of SVRC)
3) I heard about it when Alan Gottlieb was interviewed on GunTalk and thought it sounded very good
 
Dave-just placed my order.

a) Where you got it (what book shop, or on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble or where)Amazon.com

b) what part of the country you're in central Virginia

c) If you got it on recommendation from someone, read about it on the internet somewhere, or just buy books like this this thread

d) (naturally!) What you thought about it I'll post here after I read it
 
Dave, I just finished reading it:

1) Amazon (gift from an employee)
2) Redmond, WA (member of SVRC)
3) I heard about it when Alan Gottlieb was interviewed on GunTalk
4) I thought it was a very good book filled with good examples of law-abiding citizens using guns to defend themselves.

Thanks for writing it!
 
Dave, is it unfair to ask how your book differs from or compares with Chris Bird's Thank God I Had a Gun?
 
BTW, i did read TGIHAG and i LOVED IT.

I would love to purchase and read your book even if it is similar.

~Henry
 
a) Where you got it (what book shop, or on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble or where)

Barnes & Noble

b) what part of the country you're in

Maryland

c) If you got it on recommendation from someone, read about it on the internet somewhere, or just buy books like this

SAF Alert, I believe.

d) (naturally!) What you thought about it

Mid-way through...okay, so far. Many of the "stories" are firsts for me. I always like footnotes and citations. The number of CCW permits issued by individual states is of particular interest to me.
 
Dave...

You know all this already, but I'll add my two cents:

1. Bought it off Amazon (then got a free one at the Gun Rights Policy Conference!)
2. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
3. I buy lots of books like this--also read about it from SAF, etc. It's causing quite a buzz. And the Amazon reviews are uniformly excellent.
4. What did I think about it? Hmmm. Let's let the review I wrote on Amazon speak to that...maybe it will help some other brothers-of-arms:

Amazon 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. 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.

"America 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.


Gordon Hutchinson is the author (with Todd Masson) of "The Great New Orleans Gun Grab," and "The Quest and the Quarry."
 
Just ordered from the Amazon link you provided. My location is in my profile, and based on the reviews I'm quite sure I'll enjoy it.
 
Dave, is it unfair to ask how your book differs from or compares with Chris Bird's Thank God I Had a Gun?
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Not unfair to ask, RH. I'm not sure you can really compare the books. Chris has done a fine job on self-defense, and in our book, we go after soem of the reasons so many people HAVE to defend themselves (broken justice system) and why some people end up being victims (gun free zones, restrictive gun laws).

I'd like to think the books compliment one another.
 
Thanks for the reply, Dave. I think you might have just made quite a few sales. Yours sounds like the kind of book for which we've been looking.
 
Due to this thread, I ordered the little package with this book and Thank God I Had a Gun together. Never heard of either before this thread. Thanks for spreading the word :)
 
Just finished reading it. Well done. To be honest the only problem I had with it was repeating the murder rate of D.C before and after the handgun bans within 8 pages, word for word. I'm just not a fan of repetitiveness.
 
Well, it had to happen, I guess. Somebody on Amazon.com gave a crummy review to "America Fights Back."

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Arthur Hayhoe

There is absolutely nothing mew in this book! This is just a rehash of all the old and very stale gun lobby arguements that can be found in any number of books published by supporters of the gun lobby. Far to many very intellegent people accept these arguements without examining the evidence. For example the assertion that concealed carry has reduced crime. The only people who make that assertion is the NRA and the rest of the gun lobby. There is no organization in this county, with a reputation to protect, that has or would make such a statement. There is no evidence concealed carry has reduced crime anywhere and there is some disturbing evidence it has facilitated crime. Save your money and just look at the first book like this you bought. You will get the same arguements! However, for gun lobby supporters this book hits all the hot buttons for gun rights activitists who support the gun lobby. For them this would be a good read. When this type of book is published you always see several supporters of the gun lobby telling you how great the book is. Helps sales for sure.
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And now, the "REST OF THE STORY."
Arthur Hayhoe is EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of The Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Inc., a grantee of Americans For Gun Safety

And he can't spell very well.
 
Almost Finished reading it

I bought the package and read "Thank God I had a Gun" first. It was an easy read. I am almost through "America Fights Back" and find that it reads like a textbook - lots of documented facts and plenty of references.

I am currently recommending it to several of my friends and hope that they too will buy the package from Amazon; which is what I did.

Heard about it from 2nd Amendment alert.

I live in Charlotte, NC

John
 
Haven't heard of your book til now, Dave. I'll have to check it out.
I always like to buy my "politically incorrect" books face to face at places like Barnes & Noble. The little extra you pay over Amazon.com price is worth it just to see the faces on the Birkinstock wearing sales people when you put the book on the counter. :D
 
Dave...

Tom Gresham and I each posted answers to Hayhoe in the reviews of your book on Amazon.

Not only is his spelling ignorant, he has sentence fragments and tense errors throughout the diatribe.

He has no conception of good sentence structure, grammar, or spelling--what an idiot!

I had a similar letter in the reviews of our book on Amazon. The fool spoke in a pseudo-intellectual tone, looking down his nose at gunowners, and criticized the book for not addressing several issues about gun confiscations in New Orleans which were discussed in depth in the last chapters. Obviously he was so anxious to write the letter, he couldn't finish the book in his haste to criticize it.

Funny thing is, his review has drawn almost as many caustic comments as reviews have been posted on the book.

Again, outstanding job on your book--and thanks for identifying Hayhoe for what he really is--an embarrassment to his organization.

Gordon Hutchinson
 
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