12/16/2012
- Name: John Lott
- Location: Virginia, United States
About Me
My commentary on a broad array of economics and crime related issues.
Most of my posts are now at the Crime Prevention Research Center. Our work is very important and you will find the latest information available there. Please click here or go to crimeresearch.org to get that information.
E-mail: johnrlott@crimeresearch.org
Academic Papers
- Terms of Use
Copyright 2005 by John R. Lott, Jr. All rights reserved
My Op-eds
More Books of Mine
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?
Reviews of Freedomnomics
Other Web sites
Previous Posts
- Video of my appearance on Piers Morgan's Show on C...
- A reminder of the Worst Public School Attack
- Michigan moves to end gun-free zones
- Big push for gun control by Democrats
- The Washington Post on Obama's "unbalanced" approa...
- Rupert Murdoch calls for a ban on machine guns?: D...
- After the election Colorado Gov Hickenlooper chang...
- Depressing: Latest BLS JOLT data shows Hires and Q...
- CNN's bias in interviews on Michigan's right-to-wo...
- UK has highest violent crime rate in EU, higher ra...
Book Reviews
- For a list of book reviews on The Bias Against Guns, click here.
Interesting Past Topics
-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
Links
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
Data
- Johnlott.org
(description of book, downloadable data sets, and discussions of previous controversies)
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
4 Comments:
Mr. Lott,
Thank you for your continued abuse taking in efforts to share the truth with the American public. Take any interview they will give you. At least you were allowed to converse in this one without being shouted over!
"Why do people need a semiautomatic Bushmaster to go out and kill deer?"
How can somebody with Wolf Blitzer's experience ask such an exasperatingly ignorant question? His question makes the ridiculously mistaken assumption that guns are only needed to kill deer, and then asks why a carbine suitable for self-defense would be needed for such a task. Are journalists useless because no one needs them to perform surgery?
I suspect that Wolf asked that ridiculous question to point out the absurdly twisted logic of the left's gun ban rhetoric.
There’s also the issue of the bullying left having no compunction about demanding explanations from people - there is no privacy with these uncivil Marxists. Your business of why you own your gun is their business, as far as they’re concerned, whether you like it or not.
Mr. Lott, fine job explaining the facts during CNN interview.
Thank you John for continuing these interviews even when the "journalists" call you a liar and shut off your microphone, as Piers Morgan has done to you. I wonder if he, Soledad O'Brien, or Wolf Blitzer would be so confused if they actually read your work instead of just calling you names.
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