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Go buy this book and learn everything you need to know about guns and the 2nd amendment.

The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment



“There is so much fascinating, I-didn’t-know-that history, my entire copy of Hidden History has turned yellow from highlighting stuff that’s cool, amazing, and vital. I didn’t know that Thomas Jefferson demanded passage of the Second Amendment so citizen militias would eliminate the need for our new nation to have a standing army. I didn’t know that the first big gun control campaign was the KKK’s seizing of weapons from black citizens, kicking off a century of Jim Crow. Hartmann, who lets us know he enjoys squeezing off a few rounds from a semiautomatic handgun, eschews the usual BS we hear from both the NRA and NPR. Guns kill, but in an America where most gun deaths are suicides, Hartmann proves with undeniable stats that the bullets are loaded by despair and inequality. Truly a tour de force in a quick read. I’m a gun control skeptic, but I’ll admit, Hartmann’s book blew me away.”
—Greg Palast, Puffin Foundation fellow in investigative reporting and author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

“Thom Hartmann’s new book on America and guns achieves the impossible: it is brief yet definitive. I couldn’t put it down. And now I can’t stop thinking about it.”
—Scott Carter, playwright (Discord, C.3.3) and Executive Producer, Real Time with Bill Maher

“When Thom Hartmann talks, I listen. What Thom Hartmann writes, I read. This book about the history of guns in America—and most importantly, what should be the future of guns in America—is important, mind-opening, and profoundly helpful.”
—Marianne Williamson

“With The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, Thom Hartmann adroitly links the relationship of guns to slavery from Columbus through Reconstruction to racism in present-day America. He explains how common-sense gun regulation has dramatically reduced mass shootings, suicides, and other terrors of gun violence in countries like Australia. This book should be required reading for every legislator.”
—Earl Katz, political ethicist and Emmy-nominated documentary producer

“With The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment, Thom Hartmann adroitly links the relationship of guns to slavery from Columbus through Reconstruction to racism in present-day America. He explains how common-sense gun regulation has dramatically reduced mass shootings, suicides, and other terrors of gun violence in countries like Australia. This book should be required reading for every legislator.”
—Earl Katz, political ethicist and Emmy-nominated documentary producer
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607015/the-hidden-history-of-guns-and-the-second-amendment-by-thom-hartmann/9781523085996/