Interview with the Washington Post: Would more guns make America safer?
posted by John Lott at 8:29 PM
12/17/2012
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4 Comments:
Now this is a model in how to conduct an interview on a hot topic issue. Kudos to the Post. But then again this is a journalist acting professioal not that tabloid amatuer Piers Morgan
Now this is a model on how to conduct an interview on a hot topic issue. Kudos to the WaPo. Very good questions. Then again this was a journalist acting professionally unlike that tabloid amatuer Piers Morgan
Professor Lott, as to your last point in the interview that you haven't seen any place worldwide where the data show a decrease in violent crime as a result of increased gun control. What about Australia? Are MSM news reports accurate that Australia's gun control ban as a result of the mass killings in Port Arthur has lead to a subsequent decrease in violent crime, murders, etc? If so, what conclusions, if any, can we draw about a nation with 7% of the US population in roughly the same geographic area?
@ David
Homicide in Australia has decreased somewhat since the measures implemented in 1996, but only slightly. And it was already decreasing before hand.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/341-360/tandi359/view%20paper.html
http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html
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