Disarmed

What the Ukraine War Teaches Americans about the Right to Bear Arms

By: Mark W. Smith

Narrated by: Richard Cefalos

Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

The war in Ukraine is the ultimate real-life lesson of what can happen when a country disarms its citizens.

Anti-gun zealots in the United States insist that the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms is a “relic.” Try telling that to the people of Ukraine.

Ukraine never protected its citizens’ right to keep and bear arms. But as Russia was about to invade, Ukraine did a critical about-face. Ukraine’s government encouraged civilians to carry firearms to defend themselves and their country. It handed out 25,000 fully automatic weapons, while Ukrainians rushed to buy AR-15 rifles that American gun-controllers insist “no one needs.”

Did the arming of Ukraine’s civilians make a difference? You bet. Armed citizens have played a crucial role in holding off the massive Russian army. This powerful book highlights how they did it and what they did wrong.

Constitutional scholar and host of The Four Boxes Diner YouTube channel, Mark W. Smith reveals why the lessons learned in Ukraine matter to Americans, and why we must tirelessly resist all efforts to disarm us. Unless we heed Ukraine’s cautionary example, we too may pay a steep price.

©2023 Mark W. Smith (P)2023 Post Hill Press

Great information

This book was very informative and answered many questions.
Thanks for your insight on how firearms make a safer world.

Before freedom is lost.

Fantastic! Mark W. Smith's "Hit The Nail On The Head". I highly recommend that all U.S. Citizens to read and learn from the evil events of Ukraine's War. Also to open their eyes on how the U.S. and World officials forced them to disarm. (Obama, Biden & UN) and are NOW TRYING HARD to do it to us!
Again HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO BUY AND READ. I will pass my book to others to read!
Kudos Mark W. Smith! I watch all his youtube shows.
I bought his book "First They Came For The Gun Owners " and read it next.
Americans wake up before it is too late!
GOD BLESS AMERICA

Excellent read.

Mark Smith goes through in a lot of detail about what the Ukraine war has taught us about the importance of the second amendment to the constitution – and of course the right to keep and bear arms.
I emigrated to the USA in the mid-80s from Scotland and frankly for many years could not understand the “American obsession” as I called it with weapons. However, over the years I have come to realize the importance of those rights.
I have a regular weekly zoom call with my friends back in the UK and from time to time we will discuss and debate gun control. Of course, for decades many of the folks in Europe (and including myself) had become rather smug about the lack of guns and gun violence in Europe, but more recently the debate with my friends stops dead when I point out that the Ukraine gave their citizenry the right to bear and keep arms two days after the invasion by Russia. I think Europeans also want to ignore what happened in the Balkan wars – as not really Europe (it is). In Europe there has been to many incidents of military invasion by neighbors (Balkan wars, Ukraine and never mind WW1 and WW2 etc.) to ignore.
Frankly I doubt anyone would want to invade the USA, the threat is more likely to come from a government over-reach or local violence.
It’s difficult to understand why some politicians become obsessed with gun control and why they don’t want to attack the root causes of violence and they just want to take away a citizen’s ability to protect themselves.
I listen to Mark Smiths YouTube videos on the legal side of the second amendment and his videos are probably the best of them all. He has a very incisive mind, and I can’t help but wonder if many of the judges and justices follow his logical arguments. Anyways a great book to read and understand what the Ukraine war teaches about the necessity for gun rights.

Well done

This book represents more great work by Mr. Smith. Recommended reading for all. Well done.

A good overview of small arms in a modern conflict

The book is a good overview of the importance and role of small arms in the Ukraine conflict. The books seeks to prove that the corollary of that importance is the second amendment in America today. I think the book does its job well but I wish it was a bit longer and went into more depth as I am one of the geeky ones who likes the boring detail. I think anyone who is a fan of Mark’s YouTube content should enjoy the read or the listen in this case. When you are used to what the author’s voice sounds like it’s a little strange hearing the narration by someone else but the narration is well done.

Informative.

This book should be handed out to Congress. Read to the president until he clearly understands what he’s going against. And to anti-2A groups so that they understand how shortsighted they are.

A very good book

The book points out many great facts and examples for us to consider. It shows the importance of teaching our history lessons to our children. I highly recommend reading this book.

A cautionary tale for America.

Ukraine has been a testing ground for many things, yet has been ground down into "trench warfare" once again. It has basically been a study in what not to do; watched a Ukrainian soldier on YT shoulder a RPG and fire it, didn't have a good outcome.

The most important lesson is what the title of this (audio) book alludes to; that should the Ukrainian citizens have had the Right to bear arms then the Russian government might have had pause to invade, or if they had the initial battles would have been even more so in favor of the defenders.

Superb read

Factual and straight forward. Guns are still going to keep us free. An unarmed man is a subject / an armed man is a free man.

Every American should read or listen to this book

In his book, Mark W. Smith makes a compelling case that highlights the multiple times that Ukraine and Ukrainian citizens willing gave up their arms (including the transfer of their nuclear weapons).
Mark points to several events, many of which I had been unaware of, like the time the destroyed thousands of tons of rifles and ordinance under direction of Barack Obama. There is also the glaring hypocrisy of politicians who want to disarms us here and tell us how “nobody needs an AR-15,” while extolling how Ukraine crucially needs the actual, fully automatic military version of these same guns.
The book is short and much of the material is already widely available, however, I do suggest you read/listen to it, since the book does assimilate the different historical events, under which Ukraine as a country and as a population, were disarmed in the span of only a few decades.