If you own a gun or are thinking about it with the intent of useing it for self-defence, learn the rules an make this one of the short list books you must read.

all the stories of great Americans using their guns to fight back against their families, co-workers, and fellow students by shooting them dead. Also the stories of great Americans defending themselves against mall shoppers by shooting them dead. Not to mention the stories of great Americans defending themselves against *themselves*...by shooting themselves dead.

A comic book for old people who never grew up.

All Americans,especially Congressmen ,must read this book and we will understand the wisdom of the drafters of our U.S. Constitution and why WE MUST MAINTAIN IT TO DEFEND OUR NATION, ESPECIALY IN THIS AGE OF TERRORISM!!!!

BEFORE WE KNOW IT, IT COULD BE TOO LATE.
MR CHARLES SMITH
NEW BRAUNFELS,TX 78130

America Fights Back is just a collection of news stories and newspaper articles organized into various chapters. I was not impressed.

Excellent book. We are given true stories of individuals that escaped being seriously hurt or killed by criminals because they were armed. This book gives us information which the liberal press refuses to give. If the majority of people had this information, we would probably see more folks buying a firearm and learning to use it.

Most reports in the book are from 2000 to the middle of 2007. Some are a little older as the one where Kip was subdued by 4 unarmed students.One of the reports was from my area, I remember when it happened. The message is you do not have to sit and wait to be killed when you are in a gun free zone.

This is an amazing book about those who have survived and won the worst of fights. Also, It informs us of the need for media to report the truth. If you have ever had reservations about firearms or believed they are something evil this book should open your eyes about the redeeming qualities of firearm use by law abiding people. When a threat so great as that by the media and anti-gun groups is at a constant, this book alone should convince anyone why they should be armed and armed at all times. This is an amazing piece of work that has been long overdue. This should be a must read for all people who are concerned with there personal safety and what they need to do to secure it! If any one book slams gun control into it's place, this book is it!

Great Read! Gives pesonal accounts of real Americans in armed confrontations with Crimials. Finally a book that puts Honest Armed Americans in a positive perspective.
It gives proof that ordinary people with Guns can and will defend themselves, their family, and their possessions against criminals using their 2nd Amendment rights.

Confirmed all the things I heard was true and what I will use to show people I know to "wake up an smell the coffee".

America Fights Back will help the reader realize that the police are not required to protect an individual from harm, but that we are the first line of defense in protecting self, family or neighbors and we must be ready, willing and able to see that the bad guy, as Massad Ayoob said, is making a fatal error in the victim selection process. Not a "how to" book but the best argument as to "why" we should arm ourselves and take responsibility for our own safety.

I KNOW I NEVER THOUGHT I'D GIVE A BOOK ON THIS SUBJECT ONLY 2 STARS!

WITH 5 STARS I SUPPORT WHAT THE AUTHORS ARE TRYING TO CONVEY TO THEIR READERS. I FOUND THE WRITING VERY PREDICTABLE AND RIGHT OUT OF MY NRA AMERICAN RIFLEMAN'S MAGAZINE "ARMED CITIZEN."

IF YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT THEN I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT, OTHERWISE FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO READ ON "AMERICA FIGHTS BACK."

A good one to read. The authors show examples of real life as opposed to the idiotic, pie-in-the-sky solutions of useless gun control. I certainly recommend this book.

America Fights Back should be required reading for every student of American history and our culture's values. We, ultimately, are responsible for our own fate and the wise use of firearms for self protection is more important now than it ever has been. Freedom loving people will never sacrifice their liberty for the sake of "safety". To rely on the government to keep us safe, after we have disarmed, is the most sure path to tyranny. This book explains how and why we must remain armed to defend ourselves and families, how it has been done most successfully and if you really want to have control of your destiny, never give up your arms. Those who wish to be in control of us all, will never be successful if we protect our most precious second amendment. This book should be in every true American's library, no matter what race, creed, or color.

"America Fights Back" is a compilation of significant information what ordinary citizens can do to fight violent crime. As Americans if we don't hold dear our constitutional right to the 2nd Amendment, then we will no longer be citizens but rather subjects as in Britain.
Britain has seen a profound escalation of violent crime over the years. This phenomena has taken place despite a handgun ban for over ten years and strict controls over longarms. The average Britain no longer trusts law enforcement to be responsive for crime.
As early as 1971 Cambridge U. released "Firearms Control" by Colin Greenwood. The study demolishes the myth that gun control equals crime control. It shows that earlier in the century Britain had far less crime when there were no gun laws. Further, it showed that culture and social mores affect crime levels. Again, in 2001 the King's College of London's study "Illegal Firearms in the UK" concluded the same.
"America Fights Back" is a book that the average citizen must be aware how it impacts us as a society and how we can impact our own society.

Excellent book. The book contains lots of information that is usually ignored by the mainstream media.

The perfect companion to John Lott's book, "More Guns, Less Crime".

While Lott's "M.G., L.C." is laden with facts and statistics to prove that the private ownership and possession of arms reduces crime, this new book, "America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age", relates "war stories" to reinforce this truth and the principals involved with the individual responsibility of defense of self. The police are for taking reports and restricting individual freedom as an agency of the state. Think about it, a criminal breaks the law, the police take a report, and if the criminal is caught, their freedom is restricted. If the state decides that any freedom not restricted in the Bill of Rights should indeed be restricted, then it will be the police that enforces these rights restricting laws as well.

Remember, it is the right to arms that ensures all of our other rights, and all of our other freedoms. Including freedom from a tyrannical government.

I have read a lot of this before, and there is a Lot I haven't read before, but Time and Time again, The Evidence shows it self to be True. This country would have NO FREEDOM AT ALL, If It weren't for the Freedom to have a Weapon.

To All who may think this Book is Not worth the Money, Your WRONG. It is WELL WORTH READING AND PASSING ALONG, to the ones who think you are CRAZY for wanting a Gun.

This Book PROVES Sara Brady and Chuck SCHUMER WRONG, Time and Time again.

Reading this book puts you on an emotional roller coaster. I can't put it down.

An easy read that clearly drives home the justification, wisdom, and personal obligation to be prepared for self-protection!

This publication is an excellent read on an extremely pertinent subject that affects all of the American Public. My wife says that this book is one of the best that she has read and she has read other books on the subjec. If we aren't willing to protect ourselves who is supposed to do it. Let daddy govertment do it. If the masses do that the government will do it to you not for you. Thank GOD for Alan Gottleib and others who
keep us informed and advised.

Dave & Tisha Burkholder
Bradenton, Florida

"Going to "Take Aim" over the week-end and keep our skills sharpened!

This book reinforces with reliable statistics the truth that "more guns equal less crime". In my own lifetime I have used a firearm twice in self defense. Fortunately, I did not have to fire it, but just its presence warded off my attackers. We second-amendment type women have a saying: "No one ever raped a .38!" This book reinforces that fact and that this is true in dealing with all types of crime. Jessica Mary Buck

Mr. Hayhoe could not have read, purchased or digested this book, for he vilifies his hatred solely by the title. His anti-gun agenda is evident through and through, so that is what's selling this book to more and more people, as well as NRA members.
Right-To-Carry has become a serious need in our country, as you cannot have an armed cop riding along with you everywhere you go. This book gives you some serious instances and REALLY makes you think. If Hayhoe had REALLY read it, he'd be shaking in his Florida "sandles" right about now!

Good book that solidifies much of the lunacy of the gun control crowd based on the telling of the outcome of many armed and unarmed encounters. It also gives credit to the Virginia Citizen's Defense League (VCDL) for pushing the National Park concealed Carry Ban repeal (pg 159 and 164). A truth, I doubt, the NRA will ever admit.

At 198 pages it is a quick read and it can help you learn some particulars on cases that you have read about but have been distorted a bit in the retelling.

This is a good 'baseline' read for anyone wanting to get a better understanding of what some would call the inflexibility of the pro-gun organizations (National: GOA, JPFO. State VCDL, Buckeyefirearms(I think)) and why they are that way. Over all it is just more proof that Guns SAVE Lives!

I came here to report that this book is being advertised in illegal email spam, an offensive tactic. The one I received today was criminally relayed through a computer in Argentina and contained numerous header forgeries, all making it a violation of the CAN-SPAM US anti-spam law.

If the authors are attempting to boost awareness and sales, they chose a particularly nasty method to do it, placing themselves in the same boat as spammers for porn, pills, and mortgage refinancing.

Shame on them.

Rich Mason in his one star review posted.....

"A great read for paranoid and violent Americans. If you see a bogeyman behind every bush and think the only answer to the violence in our society is more violence, this is the book for you. If you're a fan of the politics of hatred, you might also enjoy it.

The only reason I'm even writing this review is because I received an unsolicited spam e-mail directing me to this product. That shows me the level of discomfort felt by the gun-toting crowd or at least that this book is nothing but a gimmick from its authors used to prey on the pocketbooks of the paranoid crowd".....

Then Arthur Hayhoe in his one star review just went into the old, tired socialist/leftist rant. The same type of rant that has led millions to slavery and death.

I fear the Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's of the world much more than I fear the physical attacker. They claim to be the "open minded" of our society yet all the facts in the world mean nothing because they are so "open minded" their brains fell out long ago. They use terms like "politics of hatred" "hate speach" and the like, attempting to make themselves the person who will decide who speaks and who does not and what is worthy of print and speach and what is not (Liberal Fascism by Goldberg). When it comes to them speaking out against those who support the 2nd Amendment and our other Freedoms given by our Creator and not government, each time you hear or read them uttering the terms "gun lover", "gun nut", "2nd amendment nut" and the like, just insert the word "Jew" instead and you start to see the foundation of where their beliefs come from. The world has been full of those who seek to be the master over the slave and always will be.

Fear the Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's, the enemy within who comes with the smile, outstretched hand and the word friend on their lips. They have many labels to put upon those whom they disagree with but will never have any argument of substance. They look for the weak minded who will be afraid to be pinned with their labels, who will quickly fall to their will and hand their freedom over to an all great government (where have we seen this before in history).

Fear the Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's, those who hate your freedom. Listen as they laugh when you claim your freedom comes from your Creator and not government. Look at what happened in New Orleans after Katrina when the Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's had their will forced on many in the city. Imagine that on a grand national scale? The open hand approaching and saying friend to the older lady and turning on her in a moment and beating her when she showed she was exercising one of her rights granted to her by her Creator.

Fear the Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's who say you cannot fight violence. What person can be met with violence but is not allowed to respond in defense? A slave. They love people expressing their freedoms they way OJ loved Nicole.

This is my not read the book yet review in response to Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's they are never going to read the book reviews and I give this book 5 stars for standing up to the Rich Mason's and Arthur Hayhoe's with the truth and for helping reveal who they really are, just look at their reviews and responses to reviews for a small part of that.

This is a must read. It is a fact that all Americans need to arm themselves for self defense reasons. Don't be fooled by the anti-gun folks. They have no basis for trying to take away your 2nd amendment rights. Gun free zones = shooting galleries. Americans have a right and a duty to defend themselves.
Gottlieb is right on the mark with this book..

In case you don't know who wrote the only negative review:

"Arthur Hayhoe is the executive director of a group calling itself the Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Inc., a well funded anti-gun organization that has received grant funding from the extremist Americans for Gun Safety. AGS is a Trojan horse gun control group that has had to change its name to the less-onerous "Third Way" in order to keep fooling people about its mission. Americans for Gun Safety is bankrolled by millionaire anti-gunner Andrew McKelvey, former board member of Handgun Control, Inc., which became the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Connect the dots!"

If Arthur Hayhoe is going to politicise what should be a neutral and objective book review process, all to further his anti-gun agenda, then I am afraid I must protest his tactics by creating my own countervailing 5 star review - and I have not even read the book yet! But I most certainly will.

Mr. Hayhoe, we are going to win the Heller case whether you like it or not. The Bill of Rights is not a smorgesboard from which you can pick and choose those rights with which you agree. It is an all or none proposition.

I'm not much for writing but I do like to read and this book was awesome! It's strait shooting from the beginning to end. The Authors are great men and very honest and approachable down to earth people. I was even able to get Dave Workmen to sign my copy! I want to say Thanks to Dave and Alan for writing this Great book!

The authors have ripped this book straight from the headlines. It's a good read for gun folks as well as fence-sitters on the issue of guns. Freedom-loving Americans will like it too. The book flows well and the chapters are thought provoking. This book builds a good case for armed self-defense in the modern world.

Should be required reading. The value of the victim is often overlooked in the equation of defense. Mothers, daughters, wifes and husbands are valuable and should be given every option to live through a violent encounter.

America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age I very much enjoyed this book. It is very straight forward. It is full of facts and examples of people defending themselves by being prepared. Anyone that reads this and still does not see the benefits of armed citizens will never change. They have already closed their mind to the subject and refuse to see that there is another side to the issue. I feel sorry for them. To go through life so closed minded and can't understand why anyone would think any other way then the way they do.

A great read for paranoid and violent Americans. If you see a bogeyman behind every bush and think the only answer to the violence in our society is more violence, this is the book for you. If you're a fan of the politics of hatred, you might also enjoy it.

The only reason I'm even writing this review is because I received an unsolicited spam e-mail directing me to this product. That shows me the level of discomfort felt by the gun-toting crowd or at least that this book is nothing but a gimmick from its authors used to prey on the pocketbooks of the paranoid crowd.

This book offsets the pervasive lie that firearms are rarely used in self defense. In fact, several university-level studies have shown that guns are used in self defense as many as three million times each year in the U.S.

It's a hoot that Authur Hayhoe of the Florida Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, an anti-gun rights group, would post a a negative review (complete with misspellings)

If you wonder whether people actually do use guns to protect themselves and their families, read this book! From their own mouths, people describe how they were able to save their lives as well as the lives of family members, because they had a legal firearm.

The "Flat Earth Society" anti-gun rights folks like to pretend this isn't true, but real reports such as in this book ring true. If people are doing it, it's hard to convince the public that it never happens.

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. [

I picked this book up based upon a recommendation at an "open carry" web site. I am a gun owner and have always understood that the Constitution protects my individual right to own and carry a firearm. However, I thought it might be good to read a contemporary book on the issue and found these authors presentation of the current state of the debate refreshing. They weave in a fantastic review of real life stories of those who exercised their right to defend themselves and others.

The author addresses all of those trite sound bites we so frequently hear trotted out by the liberal papers and "mainstream" media outlets universally opposed to firearms. Both of the authors are consummate professionals in the firearms business and active in the defense of our second amendment right.

I must admit, the most poignant thing I learned from this book is just how often American citizens use firearms for self defense and the defense of others. Even when exercised, our right to defend ourselves is never noted in the media. So many of us have lost the collective individualism (sounds odd, but it works - each American a self reliant individual yet working together as one nation) that made this nation the most powerful in the world.

If you aren't a gun owner, after reading this book you may become one.

I'll admit I likely would never have read this book if my husband hadn't put it on my "required reading list". I'd read one other of Dave Workman's books on my own (about PETA), so I was familiar with the name and writing style.

I was not a gun person when we met, point in fact, I was a pacifist and and ambivalent, if not anti-gun. Having associated with my husband's family and the ranch (three miles from the border), my viewpoint changed relatively quickly, I had Geoffrey teach me to shoot.

After several border incidents, I am a complete convert, and America Fights Back is a perfect expression of how I feel about the subject

When I ordered this book I never dreamed that it would be this great. I have vision problems but I found that this book was very hard to put down. I would read until my eyes just ached. If you are concerned about your gun rights then this is a must book to read. The Authors and I share the same State to live in so I know that the information gives out about Washington is true and factual. This book scares me but it also makes me very pi**** ( angry ). Just wait, all these guns laws there trying to impose is going to turn them around and bite them in the butt. So really, I highly, highly recommend this book to all concerned. I gave it 5 stars. Read it and you will see why. We need to action against these gun ban idiots and vote them out of office, NOW.

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.


Gordon Hutchinson is the author (with Todd Masson) of "The Great New Orleans Gun Grab," and "The Quest and the Quarry."

Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman 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.

As much as I love books, I look upon them as tools to be used, and have no compunction at dog-earing pages and highlighting useful passages. This allows quick access to points I need to bolster my arguments as a firearms writer and columnist.

This book has become my most consistent reference in a large library of gun-rights and firearms activist books and publications. Yellow highlighter leaps off the pages, and numerous dog-ears have assured an absolute bargain-basement price on the used market. But it will never be sold--it is that important to me. And it would be equally important to any gunowner by proving to even the most short-sighted gun-grabbers 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.

The authors also examine the problems of media bias against guns, quoting Dr. John Lott's seminal work, "The Bias Against Guns," and offering as an example the killings by a Nigerian student of several professors and students at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. Although the killer was stopped by students who armed themselves and caused the killer to drop his gun, the media consistently reported he was stopped by students who "tackled" him. In practically every mention in the media of the bravery of these students, the fact that they armed themselves first was conveniently ignored.

Likewise, the authors examine "Gun Free Zones" such as the campus of Virginia Tech where a mentally-ill student killed 30 people. Such areas are rapidly becoming known as "Victim Disarmament Zones" according to the authors, and they list repeated incidents in these areas in which the only thing that saved lives was a responsible citizen with a firearm who knew when and how to effectively wield it.

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.

The term "psychopath" has fallen from use in favor of the more politically correct and palatable "sociopath." Unfortunately, America has bred a strain of criminal that better fits the harsher first label. They kill with no regret or conscience after exacting whatever personal gain--financially or psychologically sick and twisted--they desire.

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."

Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman 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.

As much as I love books, I look upon them as tools to be used, and have no compunction at dog-earing pages and highlighting useful passages. This allows quick access to points I need to bolster my arguments as a firearms writer and columnist.

This book has become my most consistent reference in a large library of gun-rights and firearms activist books and publications. Yellow highlighter leaps off the pages, and numerous dog-ears have assured an absolute bargain-basement price on the used market. But it will never be sold--it is that important to me. And it would be equally important to any gunowner by proving to even the most short-sighted gun-grabbers 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.

The authors also examine the problems of media bias against guns, quoting Dr. John Lott's seminal work, "The Bias Against Guns," and offering as an example the killings by a Nigerian student of several professors and students at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia. Although the killer was stopped by students who armed themselves and caused the killer to drop his gun, the media consistently reported he was stopped by students who "tackled" him. In practically every mention in the media of the bravery of these students, the fact that they armed themselves first was conveniently ignored.

Likewise, the authors examine "Gun Free Zones" such as the campus of Virginia Tech where a mentally-ill student killed 30 people. Such areas are rapidly becoming known as "Victim Disarmament Zones" according to the authors, and they list repeated incidents in these areas in which the only thing that saved lives was a responsible citizen with a firearm who knew when and how to effectively wield it.

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.

Similarly, in "The Great New Orleans Gun Grab" The Great New Orleans Gun Grab(with Todd Masson), we tell the stories of citizens who legally defied mandatory evacuation orders and stayed through Hurricane Katrina, knowing the police would not be able to protect the property of those who left.

In incident after incident, similar to those related in Gottlieb and Workman's book, armed citizens stood off looters and thugs and defended their property, but also lived in fear of the police who spent their time disarming the citizenry rather than chasing the criminals. It was easier to get rid of the victims by forcing them to leave town than to defend them against the criminal element that ruled the streets of New Orleans after the hurricane.

The term "psychopath" has fallen from use in favor of the more politically correct and palatable "sociopath." Unfortunately, America has bred a strain of criminal that better fits the harsher first label. They kill with no regret or conscience after exacting whatever personal gain--financially or psychologically sick and twisted--they desire.

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.

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.

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.

Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman have done a great job putting this book together. It is very readable and it is one of those books that is hard to put down once you begin -- much like a good novel. Giving many examples of true life encouters, they tie them well to the points they are making. Although I admit that my reading this books amounts to Gottlieb and Workman "preaching to the choir," this choir member can use all the "ammo" he can get. Purchase this book, read it, and then pass it along to others, especially those who have not so clearly thought out the ramifications outlined therein.

America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age This book contains so much truth, that the politically correct don't want people to see; that it destroys any insane argument, that they wish to make. Very well written, and very well researched. Extremely good reading.

America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age
Another great book to open your eyes to what the left-wingers are trying to take away from us. This is a must-read for all Americans!

America Fights Back: Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age
America Fights Back Armed Self-defense in a Violent Age in an excellent resourse for anyone interested in self defense. Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman of the Second Amendment Foundation have done heroic research in the defensive use of the handgun.

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This is a good book to read and very enlightening. You will see things in this book that the main strean media will not tell you. Highly recommended.

Once an intelligent person can put the biased media and liberals aside, this book is a real eye opener for anyone who wants to protect themselves, family, friends and property. Those who think the police and the government will protect them, will find themselves grieving later on. This book is a must for anyone who wants to educate themselves on what is really going on in the U.S. when it comes to violent crimes....the very core of information that the newspapers, radio and TV media DO NOT want you to know about! Again, a real eye opener as to why every family in America needs to have a gun in the household for self defense and the one's who don't are pure prey...it's just a matter of time!