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Summary: Just got another copy, autographed.
Review: I just returned yesterday evening from the mecca of the Class III world, the Knob Creek, Kentucky machine gun shoot. Who would appear, but John Ross, loading Suomi mags at the Lomont table in the pole barn. He took time out from his book signing and loading to chat with us. Everyone who was with me bought either their first, second, or third copy. He had the third edition with him. He also explained the reasons for some of the typos, which were an unfortunate culmination of data transfer problems between word processors, where paragraph formatting, etc. Perhaps my most treasured 2nd Amendment book. Will have to reread it again. John also spoke of a sequel...END
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Summary: A gripping must-read book, marred by excess length and sex
Review: Even though this book is about 300-400 pages too long and contains nonessential and distracting sexual activity it rates a must-read. The theme of excessive government power is old but this book shows how the warnings of Jefferson, Paine, Madison, and Henry are still valid today in this country. I add my vote for a PG or PG-13 version which could see wider distribution; I'd buy several copies.
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Summary: A good, but lengthy read.
Review: A good book on a vitally important subject. Check the pulse of any politician or federal employee not shaken after reading this book. Years in the future, this book will probably be compared to Tom Paines' "Common Sense". The writing is now on the wall. Will the real Henry Bowmans please stand up.
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Summary: Important enough to include in my 2nd Amendment work
Review: This is a great read and really puts you into the head of the gun culture, despite the many typos missed by the proofreader. Before I read this book I had never fired a gun (at the age of 50), but I wasn't bored by the technical details. Now I have three rifles and am waiting for a handgun permit. I found this and a half dozen other books on The Right to Bear Arms by searching Amazon.com, because I'm an artist doing a series about the United States Constitution. This book is included in the work, along with six other titles. I recommend that you read all of them to get a good sense of what's going on in this country. There are so many points of view on this major issue that no one book gives a clear picture. Each book is rebound in Nigerian goatskin, with a quote excerpted from the book tooled in 23k gold on the cover. The endpapers of each book are targets made of images representing the subject of that volume, printed in color on Rives BFK or handmade paper on an Epson Stylus 1500 printer. I took the targets to a shooting range and shot them with a Norinco MAC-90, an Enfield 2A-1, and a Ruger 10-22, at distances of 50 feet to 100 yards. Two of the books are shot through the covers. The books are displayed in a snakeskin case which I designed and constructed, with Plexiglas sides and sliding doors. Above the books is a Norinco MAC-90 Sporter, a semiautomatic version of the AK-47 assault rifle. Also in the case are 1,000 rounds of ammunition, two five-round hunting clips, a 40-round "banana" magazine, and a 75-round drum magazine. The books are: Unintended Consequences by John Ross; The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias by Jonathan Karl; American Militias: Rebellion, Racism & Religion by Richard Abanes; The Limits of Dissent: The Constitutional Status of Armed Civilian Militias by Thomas Halpern and Brian Levin; A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate by Kenneth S. Stern; Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat by Morris Dees; and Alan Gottlieb's The Rights of Gun Owners. You can get them all at Amazon.com.
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Summary: A must read for EVERY American!
Review: Unfortunately, the INTENSE technical gun data will bore most people, however, this book is very educational. Educational in the sense that most people will not be aware of the aspects of the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution as pointed out in this book. But they SHOULD BE. This is one of the most intense, and exciting books I have ever read. Except for the somewhat graphic cover, and the few sex acts described, this book should be required reading in all High Schools. But that will never be. Bottom line: A must read for any person concerned with the direction our government is taking, gun lover or not. A definite "10".
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Summary: A Morality Play on These United States
Review: After loving this book, I recommended it to my friend Bill Bonville who bought it from Amazon and read the entire 865 pages in less than a week. He then sent this review to his correspondants - and has given me permission to post this review to Amazon - one of the few booksellers with the courage to stock it. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, a novel by John Ross -- Accurate Press, St. Louis, MO 863 pages, $28.95 (cloth) The jacket design (by the author) vividly portrays the motif of this thick volume: A federal SWAT-team person --- helmeted, booted, masked, clad in the now universally recognizable black outfit and brandishing an assault rifle --- has Justice by the throat. She lies half naked, grimacing in pain, while her assailant presses her to the ground with the barrel of his gun held against her naked breast. The scales she formerly held aloft with dignity and pride are cast roughly aside, flotsam of official violence while the Constitution burns in the background. Reading this book, powerful and lengthy as it is, I am taken back across many years to my first reading of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's ponderous classic which imaginatively looked forward to the crumbling milieu of America that now, half a century later, is vividly described by John Ross and our daily newspaper. In both books the fundamental issue is Freedom and human dignity, and the loss of both for ordinary people at the hands of corrupt and licentious bureaucrats and politicians wielding the tools and tactics of a police state. In both books the narrative is often suspended while the leading characters speak long soliloquies embodying the philosophies and cultural experiences of the authors. "Who is John Galt?" became a sardonic or perhaps wistful greeting among the bookish set a couple of generations ago. (My God! Has it been so long?) Now John Ross introduces us to Henry Bowman, a man no less charismatic as a fictional character, but certainly no John Galt. By the same token, John Galt was no Henry Bowman. To describe their differences, however, would be to betray the denouement of both books, which I will leave for you to discover on your own. UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, not incidentally, is as much the narrative history of the so-called "gun culture" as it is the story of Henry Bowman and his friends and acquaintances. It has to be that because it is impossible to fully grasp the character and motives of these people without understanding that sub-culture of Americana and the peculiarly inappropriate responses that they evoked from the entities government. One result for the reader is that, from the pages of this book, you will discover a measure of the truth of law and the "regulation culture" that (since even before the days of Ayn Rand) conspired to place us on the threshold of virtually the exact situation prophesied in Atlas Shrugged. You will also learn of significant events never reported by the mainstream media, as well as generally unknown details about such confrontations as those at the Warsaw Ghetto, Ruby Ridge and Waco. For these, too, are part of the history woven into this remarkable novel. This book is a recommended read for enjoyment as well as a source of enlightenment about self and world. It is a first novel by John Ross, an investment advisor, scholar, and unapologetic member of the "gun culture" whose articles on self defense, guns, firearms laws and regulations have appeared in several well-known publications. He knows whereof he writes. William J. Bonville - bonville@cdsnet.net
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: The worlds of Ayn Rand & Robert Ludlam seem to be centered in the life of Henry Bowman. I expecially liked the focus placed on firearm safety. I also see the close parallel between what is now happening in Canada and what has already happened in the United States. I am not a violent person (maybe this is the problem), however the violence does not offend me. My own anger and frustrations are expressed many times by John Ross. I can only hope that more Canadians will read this book and take heed of what powers Federal Gov't has established with the passage of Canada Bill C-68 into law.
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Summary: One of the most informative and compelling books I have read
Review: In writing Unintended Consequences, Mr. Ross has broached a subject that has been veiled from many people by the veil of the media. This is a necessary read for all Americans who care about their freedom and the their rights. I have grown up with guns, and the people who love them. I am also familiar with the unnecessary strong arm tactics of the employees in the BATF. A family in my hometown was raided under the auspices of conspiracy. The only evidence that the BATF acquired before sending their troops in was a tip from an informer. The results of the raid: no contraband seized, no laws broken ( except by the feds ), and small injuries to the residents of the house due to the rough treatment the troops gave them. Mr. Ross has done an exceptional job of exposing the injustices done by our federal government. My strongest fear that comes up is the fear that the events described in this book could become reality.
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Summary: Excellent if somewhat overworked
Review: Wow! If this book had been written more tightly, it would be a 10. As it is, it's important enough that you should read it. The long-winded discussion of specific guns and the history of certain firearms is boring after a while, even for a gun-nut like myself.
If this book was maybe half as long, it would be great!
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Summary: A reminder that the lessons of history are not to be ignored
Review: I picked this book up at a gun show about two years ago and finally got around to reading it last fall. Very few books I have read are of such magnitude that they stay with me to the degree that this one does. It is haunting, riveting, and foreboding all in one. I, too, am a member of the gun culture and have seen the sinister and diabolic erosion of our God-given and constitutionally guaranteed rights accelerated over the past 35-40 years. I am reminded of Benjamin Franklin's remarks about a man who is willing to give up essential liberty for temporary safety. We are rushing headlong into the abyss of national desolation and we don't even know it. Worse, we encourage it, support it, and distain any and all who oppose it. John Ross' work is a portent of a possible future to our misguided present. Did I like this book? To say I loved it is not nearly close enough. More importantly, it disturbed me because of its truthfulness. Better to say I was both fascinated and disturbed. Fascinated because it is so good. Disturbed because I see these things happening and sincerely hope the nation I love never comes to the end Henry finds he must play out. Read it. Understand it. And prey to God we learn from it.
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