{"id":2518,"date":"2013-12-08T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2013-12-08T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:15:18","slug":"gun-books-for-under-the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/gun-books-for-under-the-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"GUN BOOKS FOR UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was a little boy, reading matter was a staple on the family list of Christmas presents.\u00a0 As both primary gifts and \u201cstocking-stuffers,\u201d I did the same with my kids, and they do the same with theirs.\u00a0 This being mainly a gun blog, let\u2019s look at some good reading for \u201cgun guys and gals\u201d on your gift list.\u00a0 Be warned: there will be some degree of controversy in each.<\/p>\n

\u201cGun Guys: A Road Trip.<\/a>\u201d Author Dan Baum is a self-described left-wing liberal gun owner, who I think did his best to take an unprejudiced look at the whole gun ownership controversy.\u00a0 The book is insightful interviewing and participatory journalism in which the reader hears from those of us who carry, as well as those who hate guns.\u00a0 Like most impartial views of this complicated topic, he will manage to anger the hard-core advocates on either side, but I think a dispassionate reading will show that logic brought him, for the most part, to our side.\u00a0 (Which seems to be the usual outcome in unprejudiced analysis of this topic, but I digress.)\u00a0 Wherever the reader personally comes down on the issue, no one can expect to defeat an opponent they don\u2019t understand, and Baum gives insight into the thinking of pro-gun and anti-gun people alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Third Bullet.<\/a>\u201d Stephen Hunter is one of my very favorite novelists.\u00a0 His fictionalized account of the JFK assassination, while I don\u2019t see it as a template for reality, may be the most believable \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d yet to see print.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s appropriate that it\u2019s presented as fiction.\u00a0 It is, simply, a great read brought to us by a master of the writer\u2019s craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cDangerous Men<\/a>.\u201d Scott Ferguson is a lifelong student of human conflict in general and gunfighters of the Old West in particular. He is also a deeply-experienced instructor of defensive shooting and police officer survival tactics.\u00a0 Blending vocation with avocation, \u201cDangerous Men\u201d is a study of gunfights and the people who fought them. From the OK Corral to the infamous \u201cFBI Firefight\u201d of 4\/11\/86, Scott reminds us that different historians have different takes on these events, but the takeaway lessons of tactics and the psychology of coping with mortal violence remain the same over the centuries.\u00a0 Excellent, insightful reading for anyone who keeps or carries a gun.<\/p>\n

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\nThe first two are now out in paperback for affordable stocking-stuffers, as well as hardcover, Kindle and Audio.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen the first two on the rack at Barnes & Noble.\u00a0 Amazon has \u201cDangerous Men\u201d in eBook form at their Kindle Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was a little boy, reading matter was a staple on the family list of Christmas presents.\u00a0 As both primary gifts and \u201cstocking-stuffers,\u201d I did the same with my kids, and they do the same with theirs.\u00a0 This being mainly a gun blog, let\u2019s look at some good reading for \u201cgun guys and gals\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gifts-for-shooters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}