I found this book to be a poor attempt at satire. Being a gun owener myself, I found this book to represent gun owners as fanatics. RIGHTS ARE RIGHTS ARE RIGHTS. Thats great and I agree with that, but put it in a mammer where people who read this dont think that all gun owners are unintelligent. The author is a radio talk show host and the book is patterned after that in your face morning talk show style. A lot of yelling and calling people supid, but not alot of substance. Also, the book is outdated.

Takes a serious subject and lets you laugh at it.. Best put down of gun control I have ever read.

Politically Correct guns is an excellent introduction to the gun control movement. Those who have not chosen sides, as well as those who have, will benefit from this book because it presents material in a humorous, easy-to-understand manner. The position of many different organizations - such as the media - as well as the positions of many individuals is covered. Furthermore, the rationales for those opinions is examined (and made fun of.) The author weighs in on more than just the gun control debate itself; failures of government agencies, policy faults, and the political corrrectness of Hollywood are also lampooned. A generous helping of cartoons - some taken from newspaper editorial pages, others from noted political cartoonists - help drive the point home. This is truly an easy reading, hilarious book. My main complaint is that it is not long enough!

It is digusting to see these kinds of books that tell lies about what is happening to the planet and about the people who are trying to save it. Humans are not the only sacred species. We might want to demonstrate how godly we are by showing some love and empathy for the other beautiful creatures and places that God made for us. Instead, people like Arnold want to burn everything good as fast as possible. This book is full of slanders, libels and undocumented assertions.

Undue influence is good if you are a a fan of red scare McCarthyism. This book demonizes people who place the health of communities and ecosystems above the profit motives of companies. This book is a sad reminder that the environmental movement needs to reach out to more people especially in rural America where folks are skeptical of conservation measures.

This book supports increased mining, clear-cutting of ancient forests, and destruction of habitats for profit. Very disturbing material.

Ron Arnold has made a career out of attacking people who want to leave to the next generation an intact, beautiful, natural world. This book is one more instalment in his apparently endless series of tomes berating clean air and water. Basically, the book boils down to Arnold's outrage at the fact that environmentalism has value, and can compete for the dollars of good citizens, who use their economic clout (through foundations) to protect the environment. The book proves the maxim: capitalists want capitalism for everyone but themselves. Arnold can't stand the fact that environmentalism successfully competes in the marketplace and the marketplace of ideas. His response, as always, is to insult. A thoroughly disagreeable book, and a worthy addition to the Arnold repetitive oevre of industrialism for industrialism's sake.

The authors certainly make a big deal about presenting the "little known" FACTS about environmental groups that will supposedly support their premise that these groups are out to "trash the economy." First of all, this requires the premise that there is no financial value to the environment, no financial value to clean air and water. No where in this book do the authors present facts of actual & SUSTAINING damages to the economy resulting from these groups, except for the notorious case of the alar scare and the dolpin tactics used to control huge, out-of-control nets. They lump legitimate tactics with the fringe radical groups, painting all environmentalists with the same brush. They are very righteous about foot-noting their sources, most of who are malcontents, or who have their own hidden adgenda for which another book could be written. The authors continue to malign the groups for being "rich", large , and interconnected - SO WHAT! They operate just like big businesses, as they should. One example of many unsupported contentions is that the Nature Conservancy's buying of three islands off the coast of Virginia robbed the economy of thousands of jobs!! The authors failed to present facts to support that statement! They fail to include the dollars generated by eco-tourism, one of the fastest growing segments of our economy. I guess these guys would like to see bridges to the galapogas islands. What a one-sided rip!

It seems the authors of this book are writing by opinion and backing their opinions up with facts they find to make them sound right. I don't argue the fact that some Environmental groups can become overzealous in their cause and forget what their goal is BUT... what about the people like the average farmer who has been practicing conservation efforts from the begining. They till the earth, plant a crop, fertilize the crop with animal bi-products, reap the harvest, feed themselves and the animals, over and over, etc... Most people today have no idea what it takes to grow food for themselves, their families and/or their animals. All most people know is that they go to the store and their is food. Centuries ago, people grew their food and raised their animals and fed themselves. With the newest technology, we all WANT WANT WANT. What do you think all of this WANT does??? It causes the supply and demand curves of general economics to be put into motion. People need these high paying jobs just to live because we have caused the cost of living to rise so far that we cannot survive on the means of a famer, or simple laborer. We've caused this economic destruction ourselves by simple WANT and not NEED. So who do we blame??? Ask the authors and you'll hear what was written in the book, Environmentalists. Heaven forbid we blame ourselves.

Ask a child today where beef comes from. You'll probably hear "the grocery store". It is this false sense of nature and naturalism that "most" environmentalists are striving to help people recognize. People will not open there eyes to see the fact that each of us has an impact on the earth and people who sit back and say go ahead; drive your old clunky cars; drill oil; pollute the air, we won't be around to see the destruction it causes. They choose to live for themselves. The gift from God that we were all born with was free will. What we choose to do with it is determined by the individual. People gather into many groups to consolidate their efforts to use their free will. In almost every type of group, we see the end result of arguments over who is right and who is wrong.

In "Trashing the Planet", Arnold and Gottlieb pull the curtain back on the current environmental movement. They show that the policies and beliefs of most of the mainstream environmental groups would shock most of the "average" environmentalists. Being Green feels good, but cannot be intellectully supported by the new-luddites of today. Arnold and Gottlieb deliver a well reasoned, logical, expose of the movement.

The book is a litany of jaded corporate arguments for the continued destruction of nature so that a few people can get richer. To be read only in the same way you watch a bad B-movie -- for the unintentional laughs. The book's inability to understand social activism (not to mention concepts like justice) would have made it a best-seller in Czarist Russia.

Arnold provides a valuable detailed account of how eco-terrorism got its foothold in the United States and to what end some environmental vigilantes are willing to go to affect social change. It is only by fully understanding what drives eco-terrorism that we as a community can expect to prevent the considerable social and economic harm caused when eco-terrorists take the law into their own hands.

In dealing with radical environmentalist, I felt this book was right on. I have had the pleasure of dealing with their actions myself and this book explained my experiences to a T. The theory behind the radical enviros actions is compassionately explained in Mr. Arnolds analysis of them. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever been terrorized by or curious about the true objectives of the movement.

'It Takes a Moron' would be more like it; this incredible- literally- compendium of semi-fictitous tales of the selfish, the ill-informed and the misguided virtually defines the term 'wise use'. If you think people who fight on a daily basis to preserve wildlife, wild places, clean air, clean water, the ozone layer, the oceans, our forests etc. etc. are the 'enemy' and find resistance to their efforts 'heroic' you might enjoy this drivel by James Watt's bestest buddy. Probably not.

Thank goodness there is finally a counterbalance to the eco-craziness that has blindly trampled individual liberty. Pendley clearly argues a point one would think was obvious: people are important. This work is a powerful antidote to those who would prefer to see the West (among other areas) people-free. This book is bound to annoy, and hopefully educate, the droves of band-wagon armchair ecologists in America today.