C-SPAN's Washington Journal discussion on Gun Control
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posted by John Lott at 11:59 PM
My commentary on a broad array of economics and crime related issues.
Dumbing Down the Courts: How Politics Keeps the Smartest Judges Off the Bench
Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy
Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?
-Research finding a drop in violent crime rates from Right-to-carry laws
-Ranking Economists
-Interview with the Washington Post
-Debate on "Guns Reduce Crime"
-Appalachian law school attack
-Sources for Defensive Gun Uses
-The Merced Pitchfork Killings
-Fraudulent website pretending to be run by me
-Steve Levitt's Correction Letter
-Ian Ayres and John Donohue
-Other issues regarding Steve Levitt
-National Academies of Science Panel on Firearms
-Baghdad murder rate
-Arming Pilots
-General discussion of my 1997 and 2002 surveys as well as related surveys
-Problems with Wikipedia
-Errata for Gun Books
-US Supreme Court Wire
-Futures for Financial Markets
-judgepedia
Economist and Law Professor David D. Friedman's Blog
Larry Elder's The Elder Statement
Economist Robert G. Hansen's Blog
Firearmstruth.com -- a media-watchdog website
A debate that I had with George Mason University's Robert Ehrlich on guns
Lyonette Louis-Jacques's page on Firearms Regulation Worldwide
An interview concerning More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
The End of Myth: An Interview with Dr. John Lott
Art DeVany's website, one of the more innovative economists in the last few decades
St. Cloud State University Scholars
Bryan Caplan at George Mason University
Alphecca -- weekly review on the media's coverage of guns
Xrlq -- Some interesting coverage of the law.
Career Police Officer
Gun Law News
Georgia Right-to-Carry
Darnell's The Independent Conservative Blog
Robert Stacy McCain's Blog
Clayton Cramer's Blog
My hidden mathematical ability (a math professor with the same name)
geekwitha45
My Old AEI Web Page
Wrightwing's blog
Al Lowe's blog
St. Maximos' Hut
Dad29
Elizabeth Blackney's blog
Eric Rasmusen
Your "Economics" Portal to the World by Larry Low
William Sjostrom
Dr. T's EconLinks.com
Interview with National Review Online
Blog at Newsmax.com
Pieces I have written at BigGovernment.com
Updated Media Analysis of Appalachian Law School Attack
Journal of Legal Studies paper on spoiled ballots during the 2000 Presidential Election
Data set from USA Today, STATA 7.0 data set
"Do" File for some of the basic regressions from the paper
7 Comments:
Is it just my imagination that C-Span was willing to give a thoroughly unproductive citizen like Eleanor Holmes Norton more time in the speaker's chair than you Dr. Lott?
thank you for your time on C-SPAN. You handled the "callers" very well and were able to emphasize many basic "facts" on the gun issue. An excellent piece, I'm glad you were able to have the time to present an unbiased perspective.
NOTE: the segment is about 3hrs long and moving to 0:56 will catch 'E H Norton' comments just prior to your 30minute segment.
An outstanding job, Dr. Lott. It is obvious that your speaking skills have improved a great deal, and you handled this interview wonderfully.
No male bovine fecal matter, no emotional rhetoric, just the facts.
It seems to me at times, that the government, and Hollywood, sells the viewpoint that only the police, and or the government forces are capable of protecting us, when in fact Law Enforcement has no legal requirement to protect us.
Think about this for a moment. If in fact, one could hold the Police liable for failure to protect citizens from harm, where would this lead us?
We cannot hold the Police accountable, and we are not allowed to defend ourselves, and are held accountable for doing so. What are the actions that would be taken against us if we did indeed break some law while protecting ourselves and family.
The facts that Dr. Lott have presented, must be irrefutable, as I have yet to see an valid argument presented against them.
If in fact, according to our elected offals, no one is responsible for our personal protection, then who is?
I wonder what Elenor Holmes Norton thought about the gun bans of the deep South after Post Covil War reconstruction?
As usual you had the the floor.
I thought you did an *great* job Dr Lott.
My only complaint would be the association of assault weapons to deer hunting rifles: THey probably suck at deer hunting and the implication (it seemed to me) that machine guns should be illegal is not something I would agree with.
Excellent job, Professor! Cogent. Concise.
Cameron Reddy
a gun is a gun is a gun just like a knife is a knife is a knife
a gun in any irresponsible hand will be misused, just like a knife, just like a rock, just like the Constitution
in the hands of an individual who seeks a choice at a cost to others without their consent - will always exist
it's not that it will exist, it's how we respond to through laws which create consequences
NO ONE will EVER stop someone from doing something he is hell bent on doing
GREAT INTERVIEW! Spot on!
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