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Dial 911 and DIE
by Richard W. Stevens
With an Introduction by James Bovard
Author of Lost Rights and Freedom in Chains
Endorsements
"Gun control" survives as an idea because most Americans
believe one single myth:
"You don’t need a gun because the
police protect you from crime."
If you don’t know exactly why that statement is a lie, then you
cannot destroy "gun control."
If you can’t effectively rebut that statement, then you cannot
make the strongest positive case for private firearms ownership.
Anti-gun lobbyists get away with proposing to completely disarm
the citizens only because most citizens just assume the police will
protect them. That assumption is false. The police cannot protect
everyone -- in fact the police usually have no legal duty
to protect anyone.
Dial 911 and Die proves this fact. For nearly every American
state and territory, this book shows how the police owe no legal
duty to protect individuals from crime. The police in most
places do not even have to come when you call.
Gun prohibitionist lobbyists, politicians and media have sold Americans
the myth of police protection. Schools teach youngsters to "Dial
911." There was a television program with "911" in
the title. That phone number is perhaps the best known in the country.
A generation of Americans has come to trust a telephone number for
self- defense.
Government authorities and media pundits never told Americans about
the dark side of 911. Too many Americans have dialed 911 and died
because the police did not or could not help them.
Dial 911 and Die kills the logical root of "gun control"
ideology. Erase Americans’ blind faith in police protection, and
a rational person who faces a risk of criminal attack on himself
or his loved ones would never voluntarily allow himself to be
disarmed.
Erase the myth of police protection, and "gun control"
dies as an idea ... permanently.
How often do the gun prohibitionists use the recent spate of murderous
attacks on schools, businesses, community centers and churches as
reasons for "gun control"? When you understand the concept
in Dial 911 and Die, those reasons evaporate. Each of those
cases highlights that the police were powerless and unable to
prevent or stop those attacks. Emergency 911 service is available
almost everywhere in the U.S. -- and it was worthless against those
armed attackers.
The unarmed victims of criminal attack and their families cannot
get compensation from the city governments that failed to protect
them in these famous terrible cases. The only people on location
when the attackers came were the victims themselves. At the same
time, the prevailing laws and anti-gun culture made sure those victims
were unarmed. Police help was too little, too late.
Those murderous events do not prove the need for "gun
control" -- they prove the utter inability of the police to
protect individuals from violent crime. Police typically
investigate crimes after the fact -- they don’t prevent very many
crimes. And the laws in nearly every state say that the police don’t
even owe a duty to protect individual citizens. Citizens are on
their own -- and the sooner they know it, the better.
There are many excellent arguments against "gun control."
Only one argument destroys its logical root. Master that argument.
Get Dial 911 and Die for yourself, your local talk host,
your local NRA leaders, your family, your local libraries. Read
the harrowing, gut-wrenching stories of crime victims who tragically
depended upon police to help. See how the courts just dismiss the
victims’ appeals out of hand. You’ll never look at your telephone
-- or your gun rights -- the same way again.
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Dial 911 and DIE
$11.95 postpaid
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Bibliographic details
ISBN 0-9642304-4-5
Pages: viii, 278
Size: 7-inches by 4.25-inches
soft bound
$11.95 USD postpaid
Endorsements for Dial 911 and
Die
Dial 911 and Die is a book that should have been written
a long time ago. The enormity of the facts its author, attorney
Richard Stevens, reveals is almost too much to take in. The notion
that the police have no legal obligation in most instances to protect
the life, property, and rights of any given individual -- while
at the same time spending unthinkable amounts of time and energy
attempting to deprive that individual of the means and legal right
to self-defense -- puts the lie to every claim for government that
statists have ever made.
The remedy -- a general reassertion of that right -- is the only
rational response to the facts that Stevens presents state by state.
His book may even set the stage for something truly revolutionary,
perhaps even repeal of the pernicious and un-American Doctrine of
Sovereign Immunity on which these more specific official evasions
of responsibility rely.
There are only four or five Completely Indispensable books in the
world. Richard Stevens has managed to add another one to their number.
L. Neil Smith,
author The Probability Broach, Pallas, and The Mitzvah
(with Aaron Zelman)
How I wish that the information in this book were not true.
Nevertheless, this book speaks to the irrefutable truth: police
do very little to prevent violent crime. We investigate crime
after the fact. I applaud Richard Stevens for his tremendous research
and his courage to tell this truth.
Richard Mack
Former Sheriff of Graham County, Arizona
For those good-hearted citizens who believe the police should
and will protect them and their families, Dial 911 and Die
is a sobering heads-up. Nowhere in our nation do the police have
the duty or the capability to protect most of Americans. Dial
911 and Die documents the case law and statutes that drive home
that we are responsible for protecting ourselves and our loved ones.
Edgar A. Suter, MD
National Chair,
Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research Inc.
Dial 911 and Die is a book that will open your eyes
-- and possibly even save your life, or the life of someone you
love. It should be required reading for anyone who doesn't realize
that he has primary, if not sole, responsibility for protecting
and defending himself.
Dial 911 and Die presents a compelling argument for restoring
the individual right of self-defense. But it's also a compelling
argument for reforming, if not revoking, the legal doctrines of
"sovereign immunity" and "public duty", or for privatizing emergency
services.
While government has no duty to protect people, or even to prevent
crime and apprehend criminals, it has arrogated to itself the power
to disarm them.
Isn't it interesting that a person is a "responsible citizen" if
he keeps a cell phone, a fire extinguisher, and a first aid kit
handy, but is presumed to be a criminal if he keeps a loaded firearm
available for self-defense?
Buy this book for friends and relatives who still believe the police
will protect them. If it saves just one life, it's worth it!
Sarah Thompson, MD
author and liberty activist
If you thought the police were required to protect you from
violent crime, then think again. Stevens' book dramatically explains
the legal reality behind the slogan.
Larry Pratt
Executive Director, Gun Owners of America
(http://www.gunowners.org)
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