(Part 2) Top products from r/progun
We found 21 product mentions on r/progun. We ranked the 87 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Gel Ball Blaster Electric Continuous Toy AEG Outdoor Hobby
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Powerful auxiliary equipment: telescopic tactical stock, trigger and magazine.Remote range shock: Shooting Distance of up to 60 - 72ft and adjustable length of pull stock,15 High-Speed Rounds per SecondHolographic sight (light): with light function shooting more accurate, focus your attentionNew typ...
22. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Free Press
23. The Coming of the Third Reich
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
24. Paul Revere's Ride
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford University Press USA
25. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs To Know®
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Oxford University Press USA
26. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Columbia University Press
27. How to Lie with Statistics
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Statistions, how to lieDarrell HuffIllustrated by Irving GenisNew York - London 5 6 7 8 9 0
28. How to Talk to Your Cat About Gun Safety: And Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Three Rivers Press CA
29. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
30. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
What If Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
31. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Simon Schuster
32. Fry The Brain: The Art of Urban Sniping and its Role in Modern Guerrilla Warfare
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
33. The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
PRINCETON
34. The Evolution of the Black Rifle: 20 Years of Upgrades, Options, and Accessories
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
35. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Duke Univ Pr
36. Silencer: History and Performance, Volume 1: Sporting and Tactical Silencers
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
37. In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
38. Ayoob Files: The Book
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
[And there just so happens to be a well research book on this very topic.] (http://www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Resistance-Works-Nonviolent/dp/0231156839)
Sure, an insurgency movement can be pretty effective at thwarting the attempts of an invading army. However, they don't have a great track record, when compared with mass non-violent movements, for bringing about any sort of society that most of us want to live in.
Edit: To clarify my point, I don't think it is a very accurate to compare insurgency movements to the reason that many people in the US cite for the reason to have their firearms; the ability to stop the government from becoming more authoritarian. There is a lot of academic literature on insurgencies, social movements and revolutions. Having read a lot of the literature on social movements and revolutions, I can't remember a single peer reviewed article or book that can show that access to firearms is a particularly important variable in the success of a revolution or social movement. If someone can point me to that literature, I would be happy to read it.
One of the best contemporary books I've read in recent months that gives a nice overview of the events leading up to and through the American Revolution is Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth. It covers a lot of the background (from around 1765ish, I think) all the way through Yorktown.
Another absolutely great book describing the events surrounding the eruption of open hostilities between England and the colonists on 19 April 1775 (Battle of Lexington and Concord) is Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer. This book serves as the basis for the history portion of Project Appleseed, some of the best and most fun rifle marksmanship training out there. If you've never done an Appleseed weekend, I highly recommend it.
A lot of the things I read now tends to be original source material....as a lot of authors can put their own spin or interpretations on events (whether intentional or subconsciously). While slightly more difficult to read, original source material is invaluable in understanding the events as they happenned. For this, I recommend not only the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Federalist/Antifederalist Papers, but Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights is also a fascinating resource.
> ....when the creator/owner of /r/xkcd (among others) finally went inactive for six months, allowing a better group of folks to take over.
begin irrelevancy/
I just read the book by the creator of that sub, ["What If?"] (http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions/dp/0544272994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420590797&sr=1-1&keywords=what+if+serious+scientific+answers+to+absurd+hypothetical+questions).
It was quite funny, and the stick figures are great!
/end irrelevancy.
>The Nazis were pretty explicit about their intent.
Not actually true, really. Yes, Hitler and the NSDAP were explicit about their intent in the early 1920s, when they were getting 2% of the vote at most (I think in the 1928 elections they got something like 0.7% of the vote, if memory serves).
Then, once the Depression started and things were going from bad to worse, Hitler saw his political moment and he actually toned down his anti-Semitism and political extremism, toned down his attacks on capitalism and became more friendly to big business in much the same way the British Labour Party would in the later 1940s.
When one-third of the German people voted for Hitler in 1933, they were voting for a party which played to long-held German beliefs and prejudices (including anti-Semitism) about the need for a strongman like Otto von Bismarck rather than feeble parliamentary democracy, a party which appealed to Social Democratic notions of strong trade unions and welfare for the old and the poor and war veterans and a basic standard of living for all, a party which talked about reining in the excesses of exploitative (read: Jewish) capitalism, a party which appealed to the nostalgia of "the good old days" before 1914, a party which would stave off a Bolshevik Revolution (the threat of which was very real and which was, after widely disseminated reports of Trotsky's Red Terror in the early 1920s, widely reviled), a party which would throw off the shackles of Versailles and put Germany back in the top tier of nations which Germany's economy and kultur deserved, and, most of all, a party which promised an end to the political deadlock of the Weimar Republic--which was thoroughly discredited in the eyes of practically all Germans.
But what's astonishing is just how vague Hitler and the NSDAP were about all this. Like any politician, they spoke in platitudes and phrases which were open ended in their interpretation. When Hitler spoke of smashing Jewish finance, moderates heard him saying that international bankers were strangling Germany economically after WWI and needed to be reined in with reasonable regulation; the hardcore anti-Semites heard Hitler talking about expropriating Jewish banks outright.
Far from voting for an party which explicitly promised another world war and death camps filled with Jews, Germans thought they were voting to "Make Germany Great Again" by returning to a kind of Kaiserreich where a strong leader, aided by a loyal, dispassionate, efficient civil service carrying out the Leader's every order without being tangled up in messy parliamentary politics, would make ordinary Germans richer and esteemed in the eyes of the world. And more than some voted for the NSDAP to "keep those Jews in their place."
That's not my opinion, but rather the opinion of eminent historian Richard J. Evans.
I think the best thing we could do is find a way to fight gang violence. Most counties have had only 0-1 homicides and only a handful contain the majority of homicides with many being specific to certain streets. Fighting gangs and providing better mental health treatment is the best solution to gun violence.
Sources:
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/04/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/25/most-murders-occurred-in-5-percent-of-countys-says/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-murders-concentrated-in-5-percent-of-counties
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-duwe-rocque-mass-shootings-mental-illness-20180223-story.html
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20130124/mental-health-and-firearms
> I truly believe the Founding Fathers had one of the best ideals ever conceived and put into place; leave us to make our own choice. If we fail, we fail. But at least WE, as a people, got to choose. And so far we seem to be doing OK. Room for improvement sure, but that shows we are still growing and that's the key.
Actually the ideals of the founding fathers spread across the world and spread democracy. Read this.
http://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed/dp/0465033105
Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self defense,” King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend’s Montgomery, Alabama home as “an arsenal.”
Like King, many ostensibly “nonviolent” civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to selfprotection—yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, civil rights scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. In the Deep South, blacks often safeguarded themselves and their loved ones from white supremacist violence by bearing—and, when necessary, using—firearms. In much the same way, Cobb shows, nonviolent civil rights workers received critical support from black gun owners in the regions where they worked. Whether patrolling their neighborhoods, garrisoning their homes, or firing back at attackers, these courageous men and women and the weapons they carried were crucial to the movement’s success.
Giving voice to the World War II veterans, rural activists, volunteer security guards, and self-defense groups who took up arms to defend their lives and liberties, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the Second Amendment. Drawing on his firsthand experiences in the civil rights movement and interviews with fellow participants, Cobb provides a controversial examination of the crucial place of firearms in the fight for American freedom.
> True story, look it up.
I hear you. You're preaching to the choir here ;) One of the books in my firearms reading collection is Silencer History and Performance, which talks about requiring silencers in some European countries, as you point out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V6KXCZ1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_75FEDbFC96VG0
LOL you can prime this crap
Supporting data:
https://www.amazon.com/This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-Killed/dp/082236123X
The Origin of the Second Amendment
The Founders' View of the Right to Bear Arms: A Definitive History of the Second Amendment
The Second Amendment Primer: A Citizen's Guidebook to the History, Sources, and Authorities for the Constitutional Guarantee of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
I think this is a great book.
http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Black-Rifle-Upgrades-Accessories/dp/0692317260/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449305871&sr=8-1&keywords=eugene+stoner
How to Lie with Statistics - Darrell Huff
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393310728/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_AZEgDb4HMAXFY
I believe I read it in this book. You should be able to find it for a reasonable price somewhere other than in this link. Sorry I couldn't find a web link for it.
Have you talked to your cat about gun safety yet?
> The article I posted refers to a researcher
I just checked, and that researcher, (actually plural) were Phillip Cook, and Kirsten Goss. This is the book referred to in your article.
In that book they refer to a better designed Assault Weapon Ban in Australia which was actually designed to be effective. They report that the AWB actually worked "to reduce gun homicide and eliminate rampage shootings".
If only the USA could have a similar AWB, we could also benefit.
Your citation amounts to shooting yourself in the foot. Want to try again?
How’s about a tenured professor with a Ph.D. From Columbia University?
No?
How about one from MIT?
Suit yourself