Date sent: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:40:07 -0400 To: extropians@extropy.org From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com> Subject: UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM: New facts and hot stats from the social sciences Guns and Gun Massacres: A Contrary View By Richard Morin Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>
> Here's something for Matt to add to his already-comprehensive list of articles
> on gun control... In today's Outlook (should really have been in the A
> section)...
>
> -Declan
>
> *****
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-05/30/160l-053099-idx.html
>
> UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM: New facts and hot stats from the social sciences
> Guns and Gun Massacres: A Contrary View By Richard Morin
>
> Sunday, May 30, 1999; Page B05
>
> Talk about timing.
>
> A month after the massacre in Littleton, Colo., and not even a week after six
> students were shot at a Georgia high school, economist John R. Lott Jr. of the
> University of Chicago appeared at a conference to argue that there are good
> reasons for more people to have more guns.
>
> Specifically, Lott and colleague William M. Landes, a law school professor at
> Chicago, say their research has led them to conclude that allowing people to
> carry concealed weapons dramatically reduces the occurrence and the
> severity of multiple-victim shootings.
>
> Most experts find those assertions counterintuitive. Some dismiss them as
> ridiculous. As you might expect, gun advocates embrace Lott and Landes's
> findings, and gun opponents pillory them. In reply, Lott says: "Just look at
> the evidence"--which is exactly what his doubters and critics say they're
> doing.
>
> Lott and Landes base their claims on a statistical analysis of multiple-victim
> shootings that occurred between 1977 and 1995 in the United States. They
> focused on shootings in public places "where the point of the attack was to
> produce carnage," Lott told a conference at the American Enterprise Institute
> here.
>
> [...]
>
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Jane Roe was bought off by antiabortion money; I wonder how
freely NRA funds are now flowing into John Lott's pockets.