excerpt: But sooner or later you can always count on John Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime, to stomp into territory where others fear to tread, and hes done it in this case with a Fox News blog in which he accuses the media of playing up the few instances of accidental shootings involving folks who legally carry guns, while ignoring or downplaying the many instances in which gun-carrying citizens protected themselves and others from crime. Lotts been on this bandwagon about how guns protect us from crime for the past 20 years, and his alleged research is cited again and again by politicians and pro-gun enthusiasts who believe America should be fully armed. The only problem is that not only has his research been debunked by other scholars time and time again, but when a panel of criminologists asked him to furnish his data so that they could replicate his results, at first he couldnt produce any data, and when he was submitted a revised dataset, the subsequent analysis also didnt hold up. But Lott isnt interested in being a scholar; hes promoting the value of owning guns.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:16:49 +0000
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