There is absolutely nothing new in "Shooting Straight" for either gun control advocats or gun right advocates. This is nothing but a re-hash of old gun lobby arguements, i.e. that the founding fathers included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights specifically to guarantee each American an absolute right to any kind of firearm without any legislative constraints much the same and exactly the same as are guaranteeded by the right of free speach so that we would be able to defend ourself from our government if it became tyrannical, that the 240 million firearms in circulation have actually made this country safer and that more guns in circulatuon will make us even safer, that any efforts to prevent guns from falling into the wrong is nothing but a scheme to take all guns away and other variations on this theme.

Unfortunately the historical record just does not support the gun lobbies reading of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment makes no reference to the private ownership of firearms and if it did as the gun lobby claims it means our founding fathers were do dumb they wanted to conduct government with guns pointed at their heads and would have had no legal or constitutional right to protect their fledgling democracy from crackpots, saboteurs, traitors or armed mobs (Citizens militia) and no right to call out their only armed instrument of state, their "Well regulated Militia" to put down the Shay, Whisky and other armed rebellion we have had throughout our history.

Mr. LaPierre simply cannot explain, and doesn't even try, how one can on one hand can claim a constitutional right to start shooting at ones own overnment if it, as Mr. LaPierre so often points out, has become tyrannical, and at the same time claim protection from within that very same government!! No democracy anywhere in the world has such statements written into their constitution. If the did they would have perished long ago, including this county. And Mr. LaPierre claims our founding fathers put such a right our constitution and or Bill Of Rights? Absolute nonsense!

I wasn't even going to look at Mr. LaPierre's book until I saw the simplistic and grammatically challenged "review" posted by one "Arthur Hayhoe." If the only "review" this guy can dish up is comprised almost exclusively of his own warmed-over leftist ideology and revisionist history, then LaPierre must be on to something.

Mr. Arthur Hayhoe comments below contradict his own opening paragraph.

To all readers please read the United States Supreme Court (USSC) Decision in Perpich v. DOD (1990 Justice Kennedy wrote the decision) and the Lopez v. U.S. (1994 Justice Scilia wrote the decision). You will find the individual right to a gun very well established. If you doubt that then read the papers of the Continental Congress during the formation of our country. But that is about 3000 pages of reading.

Best wishes Steve Grigsby