Review: Making the Case to Convert Supporters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2013
You owe it to yourself and your community to have a thorough understanding of our rights in order to properly enjoy and defend them. None of our rights is more under question than the Second Amendment, and this is a well-informed guide to the importance of protecting the integrity of our Constitution. Smith makes a convincing case that gun rights are not, and should not be, a liberal vs. conservative issue. We all have the need to protect ourselves, our loved ones, our community and our rights, and actually women and many minority groups who are typically considered to be liberals or anti-gun have an even greater vested interest to be protected in order to be safe from victimization/bullying/racism/rape, and have extra needs to be free from the type of governmental intrusion that led to Nazism.Smith lays it out as a public awareness issue, approaching how to make the pro-Second Amendment case to protect people based on their specific (and demographic) motives, fears and community pressures. I don't agree with how he voiced his strong anti-Obama beliefs---I think that de-politicizing the Second Amendment is the smarter way to make the case than to add fuel to the fire by being vocally against any one leader or the other because it turns off a lot of the people you want to convert--but I appreciate his honesty, and otherwise I think he packs a lot of wisdom into this book. Well-written, and well researched with lots of links for further inquiry.