Powerful and Moving Book Puts Persuasive Faces on Defensive Gun Uses

By David Codrea

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post wrote that the Second Amendment is the ‘refuge of bumpkins and yeehaws who like to think they are protecting their homes against imagined swarthy marauders desperate to steal their flea-bitten sofas from rotting front door porches,’” the preface to Robert A. Waters’ and Sim Waters’ “Guns and Self-Defense” recounts. “Well, not quite.”

Guns and Self-Defense: 23 Inspirational True Crime Stories of Survival with Firearms

“Not quite,” indeed. As the subtitle indicates, the “1^st in a series” book by the father/son authors features “23 Inspirational True Crime Stories of Survival with Firearms.” And “inspirational” by no means covers the gamut of emotions I felt when going through gripping tales of real people defending themselves and others, compiled from news accounts, police reports, 9-1-1 calls, court transcripts and interviews with the people involved.

We are plunged right into the account of an armed neighbor who stopped a “sadistic rampage” by a “heavy-set attacker” holding a 12-inch knife to …Read the Rest

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