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Book of Interest

Larry Correia's In Defense of the Second Amendment hit bookstands Tuesday 24 January. Ordered my copy in August. Expect delivery Friday.

Your purchase of this tome will irritate hoplophobes and victim disarmers.

Albert Perez
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Review: In Defense of the Second Amendment

I received my copy of Larry Correia's In Defense of the Second Amendment (IDotSA) on Thursday 26 January, a day earlier than I had been promised by Amazon when they shipped it out. Spent the last 24 hours reading the book. It was money and time well spent.

Correia's work is clear, concise, and clearly aimed at a popular audience. He knows gun law from experience as a Title 7 gun dealer and from keeping close to people still in the business. "When I hear people tell me the gun industry is unregulated, I have to resist the urge to laugh in their faces." (IDotSA Pg. 24). If he ever slips and has to explain why he laughed he is well qualified to do so. He has also worked as a firearms instructor and continues to take classes.

He does not bury his reader with facts and figures so that they feel their heads are bursting. He states what these facts and figures mean, referring to them to make his point and properly citing them in the endnotes. This is important, Correia has 13 pages of endnotes so that if you want to have the information available to use in your pro-2nd Amendment debates the authors and work are there for you to look up on your own and have ready to haul out in debates over gun control and gun rights.

If I was teaching a course on defending the 2nd Amendment, gun rights, and gun ownership I would not use IDotSA as the only or main text book. I would use it as the first and introductory book to the class. I would tell my students to look up the books, articles, and reports cited in Mr. Correia's endnotes and make sure they understood that some of them might be required readings for the course.

If you want an accessible book to begin studying the issues of the debate over the right to keep and bear arms, if you want a book to summarize the pro gun position Larry Correia's In Defense of the Second Amendment is the book you want.

Albert Perez
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