9/12/2006
- 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
- Why Ken Blackwell's Race for Governor is so Important
- Is violent crime rising?
- More on Utah State Supreme Court Striking Down Uni...
- Lincoln Chafee in tough senate primary on Tuesday
- "More trust means more votes"
- For those with HBO, a rave review for The Wire, on...
- Amusing Reagan Joke
- Concealed Handgun Permits in action in NYC: Wheelc...
- Utah Supreme Court Shoots down University of Utah ...
- Another reason that the government shouldn't contr...
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
1 Comments:
You could bet on this one: that the government will do something that has the opposite effect. In the end they will solve nothing and probably make things worse.
The gun ban crowd will use this as an excuse to restrict gun possession for law-abiding citizens; tougher gun laws will have no effect on crime because any new restrictions on guns will be ignored by those involved in the blackmarket for drugs. Police will use it to justify an increase in their budgets. And no politician will attempt to address the solution which is to end Prohibition. A blackmarket for drugs is so lucrative people are willing to risk death to profit from it.
Even though the war on drugs has been fought for decades and has never produced positive results politicians will never admit failure. Rather than admit failure they will force taxpayers to spend more money on more resources to fight an immoral war on drugs and they will continue to blame gun possession and use it as a scapegoat.
Any objective the government pursues usually ends in failure and sometimes has an opposite effect. In this case as long as government makes acquiring drugs illegal and difficult to obtain the more lucrative it makes dealing in drugs.
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