By Jim Irvine

"America Fights Back - Armed self-defense in a Violent Age" by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman uncovers how Americans are dealing with violent criminals. They are shooting back, and winning. The authors present real self-defense stories in rapid fire succession, that put as many holes in the gun-grabbers mantra as my favorite sidearm does in a paper target.

This book is a must-read for those who ask if concealed carry ever really helps someone, or anyone who has ever met such a person. It is filled with real accounts of Americans fighting back against criminals, and winning - because they had the forethought to be armed.

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By Howard Nemerov

In May of 2007, the Brady Campaign published a report entitled No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby's Campaign to Push Guns Into Colleges and Schools. While there are a number of points to be explored in this report, the topic here is their allegation that getting a concealed carry license is too easy and therefore a threat to public safety:

Over the last decade, the gun lobby has pushed hard in all 50 states to permit the carrying of concealed weapons by nearly everyone except convicted felons. These "shall-issue" carrying concealed weapons (CCW) laws require state authorities to issue CCW licenses to virtually anyone who applies, regardless of whether the applicant can demonstrate a need to carry a gun. As a result, millions of Americans are now licensed to carry concealed handguns in public.[1]

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