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January 2002
CONTEST! PRIZES!
Before introducing this month's Freedom Book of the Month, I'm pleased to announce that YOU will be helping choose Free-Market.Net's 2001 FREEDOM BOOK OF THE YEAR. And you can win some great prizes for your effort.
Our poll allows you to select any of the twelve Freedom Books of the Month from 2001, or make your own suggestion. We'll be drawing the names of several book lovers on, appropriately enough, Valentine's day, to receive prizes including:
* $100 and $50 gift certificates from Free-Market.Net partner Laissez Faire Books. LFB is celebrating its 30th anniversary and recent merger with the Foundation for Economic Education, and they want to spread the joy around a bit.
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* Maybe even more prizes that we aren't telling you about!
It's fun. It's easy. And you could end up augmenting your library or wowing your friends with a great coffee mug.
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We now return you to our regular programming schedule:
Death by Gun Control
by Aaron Zelman and Richard W. Stevens
Mazel Freedom Press, 2001, paperback, 338 pp., $12.95
The body of literature on "gun control" (more accurately described as "victim disarmament") is vast, ranging from popular explications of academic studies (John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime") to fast-paced novels ("Unintended Consequences" by John Ross). Nonetheless, there is always room for another book on gun rights and their real meaning and import, and "Death by Gun Control: The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament" is first-rate work from an organization -- Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership -- which concentrates its attention on the role of victim disarmament in enabling state murder.
"Not every firearms regulation leads inexorably to genocide," says James Bovard in his introduction to "Death by Gun Control." "But, as this sweeping historical study shows, supposedly 'reasonable measures' ... have been followed too many times in recent history by government atrocities."
Zelman and Stevens evoke, in all its gruesome detail, the process by which a disarmed population finds itself first enslaved, then subjected to mass murder. "The Genocide Formula" is examined as applied in Cambodia, Germany, China, Guatemala, Rwanda, Turkey and other countries -- including the United States in the eras of slavery and Reconstruction.
Drawing on the work of Rudy J. Rummel, keeper of statistics on "democide" (mass death by government), the authors attempt to cope with the pile of corpses -- 169 million innocents dead at the hands of their own rulers in the 20th century -- resulting from the human instinct for trust of government. They demonstrate the undeniable link between lack of respect for the right of self-defense and lack of respect for the right to live.
"Zelman and Stevens prove beyond any doubt that gun control is a necessary precondition for genocide," says the Independence Institute's David Kopel.
Capping the book's explication of the horrors of gun control is an examination of religious teachings relating to self-defense. Jews and Christians who believe that their religions imply a righteous purpose to victim disarmament are in for an eye-opening rebuttal.
"Death by Gun Control" is only one of many books which dispel the notion of the efficacy of victim disarmament as a means of saving lives. But it may be the best such book to share with your friends who don't "get it." Unlike certain other gun organizations, JPFO doesn't mess around with useless defenses of "sporting arms" or acquiescence to "reasonable measures." The line in the sand is drawn against any infringement of the human right to keep and bear arms, and the case that Zelman and Stevens make is both irrefutable and guaranteed to elicit a second look from any open mind.
o Order Death by Gun Control from Jews for the Preservation of
Firearms Ownership -- $16.95 postpaid:
http://www.free-market.net/rd/301524659.html
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