Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

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Sun Aug 30, 2015, 11:08 AM

Aug 2015

Double Barreled Double Standards

If economist John R. Lott didn't exist, pro-gun advocates would have had to invent him. Probably the most visible scholarly figure in the U.S. gun debate, Lott's densely statistical work has given an immense boost to the arguments of the National Rifle Association. Lott's 1998 book More Guns, Less Crime -- which extolled the virtues of firearms for self-defense and has sold some 100,000 copies in two editions, quite an accomplishment for an academic book -- has served as a Bible for proponents of "right to carry" laws (also known as "shall issue" laws), which make it easier for citizens to carry concealed weapons. Were Lott to be discredited, an entire branch of pro-gun advocacy could lose its chief social scientific basis.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/10/double-barreled-double-standards

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CBS News Allows Discredited Researcher John Lott To Falsely Connect Gun Laws To Higher Murder Rates [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

CBS Sunday Morning has a feature on Dick "war criminal" Cheney? Kyblue1 Aug 2015 #1

Correction: lest the people remember or realize for the first time what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld did Kyblue1 Aug 2015 #2

Plenty of claims Lott is discredited; still not showing any evidence from Weasel Matters Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #3

A good break down of his work safeinOhio Aug 2015 #4

something more scholarly would be nice gejohnston Aug 2015 #6

Here's one SecularMotion Aug 2015 #8

scholarly gejohnston Aug 2015 #10

I must have missed where Lott's books have been recalled and taken off library shelves DonP Aug 2015 #16

Bullsh*t!! pablo_marmol Sep 2015 #21

I clicked on the link and read this -- Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #7

discredited by whom? gejohnston Aug 2015 #5

mauser & lott, bff jimmy the one Sep 2015 #17

I never said Lott and John Q Wilson were correct gejohnston Sep 2015 #18

quibble on jimmy the one Sep 2015 #19

expecting a lying SOS gejohnston Sep 2015 #20

Yeah! Only pro-control misinformation should be allowed! krispos42 Aug 2015 #9

Got it; hate the 2nd, not too nuts about the 1st or 5th either DonP Aug 2015 #11

There's also no love for the 4th and 14th Amendments. nt branford Aug 2015 #15

As opposed to your heros GGJohn Aug 2015 #12

Note: Discredited by their multiple peers, not the NRA DonP Aug 2015 #13

Yep, GGJohn Aug 2015 #14