From email:
Dear Joe,
With the help of many wonderful people committed to Second Amendment rights, we are closing in on reaching our goal for the SECOND AMENDMENT BOOK BOMB!
As an update, our book THE FOUNDERS’ SECOND AMENDMENT: Origins of the Rights to Bear Arms, by Independent Institute Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, has skyrocketed to the following rankings at Amazon.com:
#1: Law
#1: Civil Rights and Liberties
#1: Constitutions
#1: Constitutional Law
#1: Revolutionary and Founding History
#12: History
#11: Professional and Technical
#26: Nonfiction (all)
The book has soared to an overall ranking of #140 at Amazon.com and #105 at Barnes&Noble.com. (With the enormous response, Amazon.com temporarily sold out of the book and is now being restocked.)
Begun on Bill of Rights Day (December 15), the SECOND AMENDMENT BOOK BOMB is urging people to pledge to purchase copies of the book ASAP and launch constitutional rights to the top of national book bestseller lists in order to communicate the importance of the Bill of Rights’ Second Amendment for the protection of liberty. So far, we have received 784 pledges!
With your further help in urging others to join with us now, we can make Second Amendment history by pushing the book to #1.
I am adding below further details and here again is the SECOND AMENDMENT BOOK BOMB website.
http://www.secondamendmentbook.com/
Please advise me with any questions.
Thank you for your marvelous support of our Second Amendment rights!
Best regards,
David
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David J. Theroux
Founder and President
The Independent Institute
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The SECOND AMENDMENT BOOK BOMB Hits #1 in Law, #12 in History, #26 in Nonfiction at Amazon.com!
http://www.secondamendmentbook.com/
Beginning on America’s Bill of Rights Day (December 15), the SECOND AMENDMENT BOOK BOMB was launched to communicate the importance of the Bill of Rights’ Second Amendment for the protection of liberty. With your help, we are pushing constitutional rights to the top of national book bestseller lists, making a loud and clear statement that Second Amendment rights are unalienable!
A truly historic victory was won on June 26, 2008 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own and bear arms.
However, the Heller ruling was immediately attacked and efforts continue on the national level and across the country to undermine gun rights. (In this regard, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Eric Holder for U.S.
Attorney General is an ominous sign.) Therefore, to secure the Second Amendment now and for the future the American public must be made aware of the reasons why the Founders sought to protect this right.
And now we have the tool to do so — the fascinating, seminal, and inspiring, new book, THE FOUNDERS’ SECOND AMENDMENT: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, by Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook* — the perfect way both to educate ourselves and to reach friends and family who don’t yet understand Second Amendment rights. Our goal is to reach one million Americans with Dr.
Halbrook’s book during the Holiday Season and throughout the New Year ahead.
As a result, we are rapidly closing in on reaching our goal and with your further help, we can make Dr. Halbrook’s book #1 on the bestseller lists.
Already, THE FOUNDERS’ SECOND AMENDMENT has skyrocketed to the following rankings at Amazon.com:
#1: Law
#1: Civil Rights and Liberties
#1: Constitutions
#1: Constitutional Law
#1: Revolutionary and Founding History
#12: History
#11: Professional and Technical
#26: Nonfiction (all)
With 799 pledges, the book has climbed to an overall ranking of #138 at Amazon.com and #105 at Barnes&Noble.com.
Hence, please urge everyone you know to make their pledge ASAP here:
http://www.secondamendmentbook.com/
*Stephen P. Halbrook is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and author of THE FOUNDERS’ SECOND AMENDMENT: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms.
Having won three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, he filed an Amici Curiae Brief in District of Columbia v. Heller on behalf of 55 members of the Senate, the Senate President, and 250 members of the House of Representatives.
It was 803 pledges after I made mine.
Update: I just ordered the book via Amazon.