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| | Econometric Modeling as Junk Science |
 | | Lott's whole argument came down to a claim that the largely rural and western "shall issue" states were spared the crack-related homicide epidemic because of their "shall issue" laws. | | | John Lott, an economist at Yale University, used an econometric model to argue that "allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes, without increasing accidental deaths." Lott's analysis involved "shall issue" laws that require local authorities to issue a concealed weapons permit to any law-abiding citizen who applies for one. | | | The Lott and Mustard case was exceptional only in the amount of public attention it received. |
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http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm
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| | John Lott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In sum, I find that the evidence presented by Lott and his supporters suggests that RTC laws do in fact help drive down the murder rate, though their effect on other crimes is ambiguous. | | | John Lott at a taping of a TV pilot hosted by John Stossel April 2000 | | | John R. Lott, Jr., Packing protection, Letters, Chicago Sun-Times, April 30, 1997, Pg. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott
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| | Brady Campaign - An Alternative Q&A to John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime". |
| | For example, Lott claims that when states ease restrictions on concealed carry laws, criminals do not stop committing crimes - instead, they switch to crimes that decrease the likelihood that they will come in contact with an armed victim. | | | The Texas Department of Public Safety found that felony and misdemeanor cases involving license holders rose from 431 in 1996 to 666 as of mid-December in 1997, a 54.5 percent increase. | | | Most recently, Lott has argued that the hiring of more women and minorities in law enforcement has actually increased crime rates. |
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http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/research/lott.asp
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| | Double Barreled Double Standards |
| | After testing Lott and Mustard's analysis with more years of data and different econometric tweakings, Donohue and Ayres conclude, "No longer can any plausible case be made on statistical grounds that shall-issue laws are likely to reduce crime for all or even most states"; their analysis even suggested such laws might increase violent crime. | | | In an influential 1997 article in the Journal of Legal Studies, Lott and co-author David Mustard examined crime data from all 3,054 U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992 to test the impact of right to carry laws. | | | Were Lott to be discredited, an entire branch of pro-gun advocacy could lose its chief social scientific basis. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/10/we_590_01.html
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| | Deltoid » Lott |
| | Lott states that he has been responsive and implies that he was somehow ambushed on this issue. | | | Page 41, State of Nebraska, Committee on Judiciary LB465, February 6, 1997, statement of John Lott, Transcript prepared by the Clerk of the Legislature, Transcriber’s Office. | | | It testifies to Duncan’s lack of objectivity vis-a-vis Lott, and undermines his credibility on related academic matters. |
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http://timlambert.org/category/lott
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| | Posse Incitatus: John Lott strikes back |
| | Lott argued that murder rates decline after the adoption of RTC laws even after allowing for the effect of other variables that affect crime rates." | | | Wilson sums up his dissent with "In sum, I find that the evidence presented by Lott and his supporters suggests that RTC laws do in fact help drive down the murder rate, though their effect on other crimes is ambiguous." | | | Lott clearly quotes Wilson as saying: "confirmation of the findings that shall-issue laws drive down the murder rate. |
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http://posseincitatus.typepad.com/posse_incitatus/2005/01/john_lott_strik.html
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| | City Pages - The Godfather of "Conceal and Carry" |
| | One month after appearing at CAE, Lott testified to the Minnesota Legislature as a prime witness on the subject of "conceal and carry" gun legislation that would make it relatively easy for the citizenry to carry handguns. | | | In addition to appearing at conservative-think-tank-sponsored events across the country, he testified before numerous legislatures and appeared on talk shows--many of which were also funded by conservative foundations--arguing that if states would only relax concealed-weapons laws they would become safer places. | | | In this case, what if crime went down for other reasons? |
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http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1159/article11064.asp
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| | Brady Campaign - Concealed Handgun Fraud: Exposing John Lott |
| | Lott has written that wealthy people should be able to "buy justice" and that enriching criminals can be good for the economy. | | | Concealed Carry, Concealed Risk: State CCW laws and Grades for 2003 | | | Mustard was deposed under oath in the Ohio concealed handgun case Klein v. |
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http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/issues?page=lott
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| | John Lott's Website |
| | Terry Eastland points out how Chief Justice John Roberts started having conferences that actually started talking about the issues and not simply having the Justices tell each other how they are going to vote. | | | At the same time and not unrelatedly, Eastland points to the remarkable string of unanimous decisions that the court has made. | | | Yet, another case that probably wouldn't have been considered a couple of years ago: "The city of Long Beach, Calif., is using the power of eminent domain bolstered by last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling to condemn a Baptist congregation's church building. |
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http://www.johnrlott.com
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| | Dr. John Lott to speak on campus. |
| | The media coverage of the 1997 survey data dispute, Lott told me, is "a bunch to do about nothing." I wish I could agree. | | | His best-selling 1998 book, "More Guns, Less Crime," provided analysis of FBI crime data that showed a groundbreaking correlation between concealed-weapons laws and reduced violent crime rates. | | | Additionally he was the Chief Economist at the United States Sentencing Commission in 1988 and 1989. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891468/posts?page=7
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| | John Lott, Jr. - definition of John Lott, Jr. in Encyclopedia |
| | His published results show a very strong reduction in violent crime associated with the adoption by states of laws allowing the general adult population to freely carry concealed weapons. | | | After the discovery, Lott stated to the Washington Post: | | | Lott went on to work at other institutions, for instance Yale University School of Law, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton Business School, and Rice University and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission (http://www.ussc.gov/) during 1988 and 1989, before taking a position at the American Enterprise Institute, generally considered a right-wing think tank. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/John_Lott,_Jr.
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| | John R. Lott |
| | Lott argues that wealthy criminals should be able to purchase legal representation that will allow them to escape conviction despite their guilt. | | | is (was--1998-99, ed.) the John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and an avid proponent of Chicago School theories on law and economics. | | | Lott shares a common heritage with former Judge Robert Bork and other prominent members of the Chicago School - the espousal of extreme points of view on the issues of crime, health and safety, and the environment. |
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http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=56
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| | Deltoid » John Lott’s unethical conduct |
| | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | Lott claims that his survey found defenders firing in 2 out of 28 cases, which is 7%, not 2%. | | | In that book he presented statistical evidence that concealed-carry laws were associated with lower crime rates. |
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http://timlambert.org/lott
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| | John Lott - SourceWatch |
| | Lott published a book called More Guns, Less Crime presenting evidence that concealed-carry laws correlated with lower crime rates. | | | These absurd claims were published in the National Review and the Journal of Legal Studies. | | | Lott claimed that "For every two additional black Republicans in the average precinct, there was one additional non-voted ballot." [4] (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lott200312100915.asp) In other words, half of all black Republican ballots were invalid. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=John_Lott
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| | Lott, Jr., John R.: More Guns, Less Crime |
| | "Lott's pro-gun argument has to be examined on the merits, and its chief merit is lots of data. | | | Directly challenging common perceptions about gun control, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis ever done on crime statistics and right-to-carry laws. | | | "John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14167.ctl
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| | John R. Lott Jr. on CBS & Guns on National Review Online |
| | Making it difficult for law-abiding Americans to own guns should not be the only accomplishment of new laws. | | | It’s easy: Subscribe to National Review here, or to the digital version of the magazine here. | | | — John Lott, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of The Bias Against Guns and More Guns, Less Crime. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lott200501140924.asp
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| | Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns (Gun Control Study by John R. Lott, Jr. and David B. Mustard, ... |
| | City of Chicago Sues Gun Industry (links to full text of lawsuit, statements, remarks, press releases, etc.) | | | John R. Lott, Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)(Studies in law and economics)(ISBN: 0226493636). | | | Multiple Victim Public Shootings, Bombings, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws: Contrasting Private and Public Law Enforcement (April 1999, University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 73). |
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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/guns.html
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| | John R. Lott, Jr.: Archives |
| | John R. Lott, Jr., and Sonya D. Jones on the pumped-up state. | | | John R. Lott, Jr., explains the facts to the Democratic candidates. | | | John R. Lott, Jr., on the sad case of Britain. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott-arch.html
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| | Reason magazine -- January 2000, Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott |
| | Lott, now a senior research scholar at Yale Law School, used to be the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow at the University of Chicago. | | | Lott: You hear claims from time to time that people should behave passively when they're confronted by a criminal. | | | In addition to his positions at Yale and the University of Chicago, Lott has served as chief economist at the U.S. Sentencing Commission and taught at UCLA and the University of Pennsylvania, among other schools. |
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http://www.reason.com/0001/fe.js.cold.html
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| | TCS Daily - Gunning for Cheney |
| | Like many of his votes in congress, Cheneys votes made sense and required rare courage. | | | The bill in question was written and supported by the NRA and supported by gun control groups. | | | During the Vice Presidential debate, Senator John Edwards asked how Vice President Dick Cheney could possibly oppose laws such as one preventing plastic guns that can avoid metal detectors. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=100604H
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| | Gun Laws Can Be Dangerous by John Lott, Jr. |
| | Keeping their promise to President Clinton, Republican leaders in Congress have moved quickly to consider a broad range of gun-control laws in the wake of the Littleton attack. | | | He is author of "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws" (University of Chicago Press,1998). | | | Gun Laws Can Be Dangerous by John Lott, Jr. |
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http://www.tsra.com/Lott22.htm
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| | The Bias Against Guns |
| | "Another major contribution by John Lott to the evidence on the effects--good and bad--of gun-control legislation. | | | With a blend of new data, evidence, and examples, he unpacks the bias against such stories in the media."--J. | | | With irrefutable evidence, Lott shoots gun critics down and gives you the information you need to win arguments with those who want to ban guns. |
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http://www.johnlott.org
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| | A Collection of Articles by Dr. John Lott, Jr. |
| | Gun Control, a Loaded Issue for Democratic Candidates by John Lott Jr/Grover Norquist 02/06/04 | | | The Ban Against Public Safety Lott and Lehrer 08/11/03 | | | Senate Bill can end misleading debate on guns 03/02/04 |
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| | SSRN-Multiple Victim Public Shootings by John Lott, William Landes |
| | Contact Information for WILLIAM M. Email address for WILLIAM M. University of Chicago Law School | | | We explain why public shootings are more sensitive than other violent crimes to concealed handguns, why the laws reduce the number of shootings and have an even greater effect on their severity. | | | Lott, John R. and Landes, William M., "Multiple Victim Public Shootings" (October 19, 2000). |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=272929
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| | University Blog |
| | I then got my Ann Coulter book signed and took pictures of her signing my book. | | | I feel like I need to post entries about my concerns regarding Samuel Alito (before he is confirmed by the Senate), about an endorsement of U.S. Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) for House Majority Leader (as so many bloggers had already done, days ago), defending Rev. | | | Pat Robertson for his remarks about Ariel Sharon, and possibly for his past statements as well [as I was among the |
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http://uis.blogspot.com
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| | Banning Swords and Laser Pointers by John R. Lott, Jr. |
| | Weapons that would hardly cause a second thought in the hands of a citizen in another country generate concern when held by an Australian. | | | John Lott [send him mail], a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of The Bias Against Guns (Regnery 2003). | | | Is it really true that Australians have these overpowering urges to try sticking metal in electrical sockets? |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott27.html
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| | Who is Mary Rosh? John Lott is Mary Rosh, That's Who. |
| | John Lott CAUGHT with Second Fake Identity he uses to Attack his Critics and Speak Highly of Himself | | | John Lott thinks terrorists should be able to buy.50 caliber sniper rifles | | | Currently, Lott is a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. |
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http://www.whoismaryrosh.com
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