Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns - Hardcover

Stopping Power; Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Kevin Merrill (author photograph) (illustrator). 288 pages. Tabular information. Index. Includes a Foreword by Criminologist and Civil Rights Lawyer Don B. Kates, Jr. Also includes Preface, as well as an Introduction: As American as Guns. Topics covered include Sorties into Enemy Territory; the LA Times Op-Eds; Some Practical arguments for an Armed Civilian Population; The War to Bear Arms in the City of the Angels; The Second Amendment and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms; "With Liberty an Justice for All"; Ripostes and Counters; What It Takes to Get Meto Put on a Yarmulke. Winner of the James Madison Award. Joseph Neil Schulman (April 16, 1953 - August 10, 2019) was an American novelist who wrote Alongside Night (published 1979) and The Rainbow Cadenza (published 1983) which both received the Prometheus Award, a libertarian science fiction award. His third novel, Escape from Heaven, was also a finalist for the 2002 Prometheus Award. His fourth and last novel, The Fractal Man, was a finalist for the 2019 Prometheus Award. He was the author of nine other books, including a short story collection, Nasty, Brutish, and Short Stories, Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns, and The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana. He wrote the Twilight Zone episode "Profile in Silver", first broadcast on CBS March 7, 1986. The author challenges the distortions and misinformation that pundits ranging from network anchors to ill-informed doctors are promoting about guns. The author marshals a wide range of moral, historical, and criminological arguments making the case not only that privately held firearms are the political empowerment of sovereign citizens in a democracy, but that high crime is the direct result of civilians abdicating their personal responsibility in defending themselves, their families, and their neighbors against criminals, instead hiring gunslingers called police to risk their lives defending them. Did you know that every 13 seconds one of America's 70 million gun owners uses a firearm in defense against a criminal? That American women use handguns 416 times a day in defense against rapists, which is a dozen times more often than rapists use a gun? That a gun kept in the home for protection is 216 times as likely to be used in defense against a criminal than it is to cause the death of an innocent victim in that household? These are just a few of the surprises this book has in store for anyone whose belief in gun control is based on TV news or popular magazines. Award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, J. Neil Schulman, challenges the misinformation that pundits ranging from network anchors to ill-informed doctors are promoting about guns. Especially for the reader who doesn't own a gun and has never even considered buying one, Stopping Power should be an eye-opener. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Artikel-Nr. 79997

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