Shooting the Bull serves two purposes. First, it catalogs the common canards of politicians and activists. Readers will recognize how they have been psychologically scammed by special interests and deceived by elected sycophants. They will also experience disquieting revelations as they discover forms of fibs they had previously encountered but not recognized. By the end of the book, readers will be infinitely more cynical about politicians and propagandists and be equipped to dissect future electoral effluvium.

The second purpose of Shooting the Bull is to document the deceits peddled by the gun control lobby. Each chapter is devoted to at least one major initiative proffered by anti-gun activists, exposing their falsities through dissection of their motives, methods and inconvenient facts. The art and science of political pretense is illustrated through Senator Dianne Feinstein's "assault weapon" ban, the Million Mom March's campaign to register all guns and license all owners, Michael Moore's deluded “documentaries”.

Reader Reviews:

Shooting The Bull reader Reviews via Amazon.com:

"In Shooting the Bull, he punctures myth and myth promoter with equal facility, and with humor. Stand back when you read this so you don't inhale dangerous amounts of hot, fetid air when Guy Smith tells the truth about the gun control programs that Michael Moore, Diane Feinstein, Michael Bloomberg, BHO, and others promote and the real motives behind these and other hucksters of the left."

"Whether you like guns or you like gun control, Shooting the Bull will entertain, educate, and otherwise benefit you when you read it! By the way, you should have a lot of fun reading it."

"In the aptly-named Shooting the Bull, he has woven his extensive research into a fun-to-read, highly informative exposé of how the public is fooled by those we blindly trust to keep us informed. The subject of gun control is at the heart of Guy's case study, but it's evident there are many other ways we are being misled - whenever there are people in positions of power or influence that smugly believe they are know better than 'the masses' (us)."

"I'm not through with the book yet, but the excerpt above gives a sense of Guy's writing style - using colorful metaphors and highly descriptive vocabulary, liberally infused with (Ann) Coulterish satire and wit. Whether you're pro-gun, anti-gun, or neutral, this book manages to be eye-opening, entertaining, and maddening all at the same time."

"This is quite simply a fantastically interesting and entertaining read. Smith covers the machinations of the gun control lobby over the past few decades both in the US and abroad, highlighting the particular roles certain individuals have played in revealing detail. He explains both their modus operandi in deceiving the public and how their arguments fall short tested against reality. Smith's writing style is excellent, straight to the point but wonderfully hilarious; no punches are pulled nor do the guilty get away without a grilling."

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Truth About Guns:

"Smith rips gun control advocates’ assertions to shreds, piece by piece, lie by lie. He exposes the half-truths and outright fibs generated by The Brady Campaign, The Violence Policy Center, pro-gun pols and other gun grabbers. And he does so with messianic zeal, cataloguing the duplicitous assaults on gun rights under lie 'types'.

"This is precisely the kind of information all Americans need, along with an understanding of why we have the Second Amendment in the first place. A book that tells the truth about gun rights and gun control should be required reading in grade school—if I believed in forcing teachers to teach according to a rigid reading plan.

"Shooting the Bull is so not that book. Aside from the occasional foray into plain Jane factuality (as above), the text is laced with vitriol and invective. Remember Don Rickles? Like that. Both barrels. Right from the git-go."