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Summary: Response to "crud" review
Review: Yea, its easy to try to knock a book that is almost 1000 pages, there is so much to misrepresent. He does state that wealthy people (black and white) stand to lose more because the laws "reward" police departments by allowing the seizure all of property slightly involved. So if a non-dirt poor person spits in the wrong place they seize all of his possession. A really poor person has none, so why bother taking their stuff (it's even more apalling if they do,though.)Ohh, and thanks to our gun laws you have to be rich to own anything interesting enough to have in a book about the second (first, fifth, etc.) amendment(s). That's classism that is real. Yeah sure, you can have a machine gun if you have thousands of dollars to give away, due to the supply and demand, thanks to our gun laws. (Yes, just about straight from the book.) The black and white thing is outrageous because Ross talks at length about how black people were not allowed to be sold guns due to contrived gun laws. It implies that they are/were abused and not allowed to defend themselves, abused with(by) the governments help. It goes as far as to say the white bigots were trying to keep guns out of the hands of the immigrants and blacks. I am part German. I find nothing more embarrasing in my heritage than the(my) people who stood by while others in their country were being killed by their government. Those Germans who were involved earned everything the book gave out. He never said anything about the Germans as a whole, just wrote WWII. The homosexual thing is even more atrocious since the lead character was raped by a group of homosexuals (no, this wasn't gratuitous). The author supported this plot twist by giving the statistics on men as the target of rape as well as women. It implies if our government allowed us to protect ourselves things like this wouldn't happen. We usually blame our self or the perp or our society, but it happens - really - to make cops safer not the people. What % of criminals are caught on their way to a crime solely because of carry laws? When they get there what % of the victims will be equally armed because of carry laws? This is his point in general. I honestly think that the sex in the book is a result of the rape, i.e.; to show this guy was a true hetero. Understandable I think, as people would just say he (henry) was some homo and white wash the whole thing and be repulsed. It's also a book that has some very shocking plot twists. It is hard to say that an 800+ page book is a real page turner that you can't put down, but more than any other I have read, this is. It is also easy to attack a book that has so many facts and is so educational as having some dates that are off. Well, a lot of textbooks are off on the facts in school and no one cries foul even if (or unless) it's black history; ohh, and he never states this is a textbook, nothing wrong with learning. And most of all it is hard to defend a book when you don't want to give too much away, as I already have. This book is dark and bad things happen, just like life. Ohh and it changed my position about my government on gun control, with enough supporting evidence that I don't care if some facts were off. This book is rated R, though. Changed my opinions in the same way as "Outsiders" when I was in the 6th grade. Its a little harder to do almost 20 years later. Sorry if the review was almost as wordy as the book :)
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Summary: Don't waste your money on this crud
Review: The only reason I give it 1 star is that a minus rating is not offered. In this overlong and over-detailed tripe, Ross manages to blaspheme Almighty God and Jesus Christ, Christianity, the sacraments of the Catholic church (no, I'm not a Cahtolic) and others who observe communion-referring to it as "cannibalism", rural people and the German people. He never once refers to Germans as anything but the derogatory term "krauts". He praises Jews and Judaism to the roof but denigrates Christians and Christianity, promotes homosexuality and all manner of perversive public actions by his homosexual "heroes" in this book. All of the villians are white, blacks are paragons of virtue in this rag. Ross states that only the wealthy, with "above average incomes and above average education" as his hero puts it, are the real "gun culture". People who weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouth, people who work for a living and raise families (which his hero is too busy cavorting with bi-sexual perverts to have), or even people who "watch ballgames" are not worthy of being part of the gun culture, or anything else in his view. His hero is a cold-blooded murderer who even endorses the murder of women and children (the BATF agents family in San Antonio toward the end). The feats accomplished by his characters (the fictional ones, anyway) are impossible and the scenario of a president and federal government NOT declaring martial law, shutting down the internet and beginning gun confiscation when it's minions begin to get waxed are simply not plausible. Such actions might result in a civil war, or you might see a bunch of sheep just turn in their weapons. The only useful thing this book does is catalog the various laws and steps taken to slowly but surely take away our 2nd Amendment rights. According to some reviewers here, even that isn't completely accurate. I found the character Henry Bowman to be a thoroughly disgusting reprobate. He looks down his nose at those who weren't born with a silver spoon in their mouth as he was, he frightens women in thinking their lives are in immediate danger in an airplane in an effort to extort sexual favors, and uses a self-defense class as a means to do the same. Some hero. Pass on this drivel and stick to something more relevent and to the point such as Turner Diaries or Hunter.
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Summary: Never owned a gun, but thinking about getting one now.
Review: I've never owned a gun, but after reading this book I'm thinking about getting one. I've always focused on our loss of freedom because of the tax system. I think an equally compelling story could be made about the IRS. After all, the IRS has inprisoned multitudes more people with the same kind of bogus laws than the BATF has. It was an eye opener to see how the same process of destroying our freedom is being used with the Second Amendment too. Of course they are all "Revenue Agents" from the Treasury right? The gun issue is just a different side of the same coin with economic enslavement the other side. What do you call a person who has 40% of his wealth taken away and is unarmed anyway? The ultimate goal of the government is enslavement and they are getting close to completing the task. This book demonstrates what it's going to take to get our freedom back.
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Summary: Gun Rights -- a Public Health Issue
Review: Many physicians are beginning to rethink what the Center for Disease Control has said about firearms constituting a "public health crisis." I and many of my colleagues in this part of East Texas have realized that owning a firearm and being properly trained in the care and use of that firearm is crucially important to staying healthy! John Ross gives us a great story, engagingly written and presented, and based on historical facts that you were never taught in school and won't have run across anywhere else (but that CAN be corroborated with a little effort). To my friends who are still opposed to the public ownership of handguns (a dwindling number, I might add) I say: please read Unintended Consequences -- and until you do and then purchase your weapon and get your training-- I and your other neighbors who have already shouldered this responsibility will try our best to protect you and your family. But hurry up! We need you!
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Summary: If you own a gun, you MUST read this book. PERIOD.
Review: Buy a copy today before the government tries to ban this book. Then make up your own mind. There is a lot of information here, and actual historical events, that you will NOT hear about from the liberal controlled media.
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Summary: Fantastic may-happen scenario couched in historical facts.
Review: The book that NEEDED to be written. Thank God for the First Amendment. Very hard to put down. Ross adds up what is happening in the U.S. and takes it to its logical conclusion. This book is full of recent American history written down in a no-bull**** unwhitewashed manner. You MUST read this book. Mr. Ross, you are a GREAT MAN. I salute you.
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Summary: Disturbing for more than one reason.
Review: My dad recommended Unintended Consequences to me so I ordered a copy. I found that it was almost impossible to put down. The history lesson contained in the book is very valuable, especially for people who are not yet fully committed to freedom. The book is disturbing in two ways. First it is disturbing because it documents how our way of life in this country has been eroded through unconstitutional laws. The Henry Bowman solution is disturbing as well and very sobering. I recommend the book highly.
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Summary: a disturbing masterwork from a wonderful newcomer
Review: I actually found this book at a major book store and still cannot believe my luck that i found it at all. Amazon is the first place i've found this book outside my copy. No one I know has ever read it to there detrament they don't want to.for those that want a real scare read GATHERING STORM by Morris "I have rights you don't" Dees. atleast UC tells the truth in an entertaining and enlightning way thank you John Ross.
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Summary: There's something about UC
Review: There's something about Untintended Consequences, isn't there? I read this book a year and a half ago and I can honestly say my opinions about gun control enthusiasts and their tactics has changed 100 percent. Since I read it, I have become very active in Pro-Second Amendment organizations and have made sure my voice is heard whenever my freedom is threatened. However, Second Amendment preservation isn't the only message this book imprints on its readers. It's about preserving freedom in general, not just our right and duty to bear arms. To one person, it's the freedom to smoke marijuana, to another it's the freedom to vote no matter what race or status you are. To one person, freedom might mean being able to buy cigarettes or cigars if they want to or choose their own doctor if they become seriously ill, to another it's simply to be able to walk through their neighborhood without being attacked by club weilding punks. No matter how you define freedom, after reading UC, you will see that freedom in this country begins and ends with an individual's right to bear arms. No Second Amendment? Then no freedom, period. It's as simple as that.
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Summary: should be required reading in goverment classes
Review: this book tells exactly how the goverment has gotten out of control.trying to make honest citizens out to be criminals.stripping our second amendment rights away.best book i have ever read next to the bible
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