Unintended Consequences | John Ross

Unintended Consequences | John Ross | Excellent, entertaining read

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	Unintended Consequences John Ross Accurate Press, 1996 - 863 pages average customer review:based on 371 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A rare effort

This book was lent to me by a good friend. Because if it's length (nearly 900 pages), it sat on the coffee table for six months.

But when I picked it up, I finished it in a week - I couldn't put it down.

Arguably, it has too much detail about the technical aspects of firearms, a small percent of which are in error.

But putting that aside, "Unintended Consequences" is one of the most fascinating books you will EVER read on what the second amendment is all about, and why it is the SECOND amendment, and not the 10th, or 20th. It is NOT about deer hunting and target shooting.

And all of this serious knowledge and legal history is woven into a fascinating story that reads well, and keeps you on edge.

The book is also rife with legal history, including the in depth details of the US v Miller decision which much gun ban law is based, and why that decision was (and still is), invalid. It goes into details about the excesses of the BATF and the abuses of citizen's rights, and violation of their personal lives.

When I was forced to return the loaned copy, I promptly bought my own to read again, and to pass on to my son when he is old enough to understand the issues of out of control government.

This book is purely haunting, and one of the most important books I have ever read.

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Excellent, entertaining read

I gave this 5 of 5 stars because it is an excellent read.

I agree with a number of my correspondents in that the first 2/3 of the book should be a separate volume, presented as non-fiction.

The author does a GREAT job of detailing the erosion of our rights over the last century.

The last 1/3 of the book has been called "the Red Dawn-ers wet dream" and I must concur. Still, a fantastic read and highly recommended!

Hope this helps someone!

DD

astounding

This book was purchased to replace the one I bought over 10 years ago, loaned to a friend and never saw again. This book should be required reading for every high school junior and senior in our government schools, among other reading materials too numerous to mention. Thank you amazon for making it avaialable, when once upon a time it was very hard to find.

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Worse than Waco and Ruby Ridge!!

Want to see into the faschist mind of big goverment and the criminal agents, mostly affirmitive action incompetants, who gloat over the power they have over normal, law abiding, constitutionally correct people? All dolled up in a PC multicultural/ religious/ sexually oriented mix of true Americams? A good novel but the tale never even approaches the actual abuses by these agents who are regarded as too stupid to get a job in a quality federal agency by other feds. Loved the use of the internet to unite true patriots- AlGore must be shaking in his Birkenstocks! I always carry one copy at the SHOT show and ask the agents to sign it for me!

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Insightful but too much detail

First I should state that as a European living in the USA, the concept of the general availability of the weapons described in this book - even with the taxes associated - is alien to me. Even the police in my home country don't carry guns (and thus they are rarely shot at).

That said, I did read the book from start to finish. As others have pointed out, even though you may be pro gun control, some of the concepts do apply to other areas of life. The stage at which the book became of serious interest to me, about halfway through when I guess the author decides to make His Point, is when one character returns from living abroad; only at the airport to find a multitude of new regulations that directly, negatively and financially impact his life. In his case, it was gun control: but I quickly saw how it could apply to my own life.

In 1995 I could board domestic flights without even showing ID. 11 years later, I can't even carry aftershave onboard. The author's point is that the multitude of regulations would have been inconceivable had they been introduced in one fell swoop, but individually over time, like the boiling frog, they are accepted.

While I don't advocate the murder of gov't officials, as the characters in this book eventually do, a strong case is made that serious, non-partisan, non-special-interest-group change is needed.

The book's largest flaw is, of course, the depth of detail in the discussions of the various guns presented. Having said that, I did enjoy the explanation of how to pinpoint a moving target hundreds of yards away while factoring windspeed and bullet type.

On gun control specifically it fails to make its case, although this is less relevant. The main characters are one-track-minded, interested only in shooting (and occasionally flying). With their level of expertise of course I would trust them around me with a Solothurn and a case of ammo, but most people spend more time learning how to drive a car than they do being taught how to handle guns. Wouldn't you be terrified riding the NYC subway each day thinking that half the people around you had concealed lethal weapons? The book even hypothesises that the ATF and FBI agents are not adept with the guns they carry, hence their vulnerability and the situations getting out of control.

I'm not convinced with its historical accuracy. The Waco, TX incident puts words in people's mouths that weren't backed up by, say, watching the documentary produced several years later. The author is exaggerating when a British military official states a maximum of 200 IRA members kept the entire British military at bay, as it was the grassroots support of a fair number of citizens who turned a blind eye when necessary that permitted the paramilitaries there to continue their actions.

If you have a lot of time, it's a decent read. I would have preferred more depth of character development on all sides (including the agents, to get inside their minds of why they do this job) in place of technical detail. And to really validate its point, the author could have chosen one or two other walks of American life that have seemingly been needlessly and unfairly impacted by gov't regulation.

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