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Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
Category: Merced
David Friedman examines John Lott's claims that safe storage laws were to blame for the deaths in the Merced pitchfork murders, and comes to similar conclusions to me: Putting it all together, I conclude that the Merced murders provide evidence...
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Category: Merced
In his book The Seven Myths of Gun Control, Richard Poe has an extensive account of the murders. He is much more careful with his facts than the other pro-gun writers who hang an attack on safe storage laws...
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Category: Merced
Lott has blogged for the third time about the Merced murders: Taken together, the different articles in these various posts indicate that the gun was locked; it was placed in a way that was not accessible by the children; both...
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Category: Merced
Lott has a new entry on his blog where he posts a transcript from Fox News that apparently has the father of the murdered children saying: "If a gun would have been here today, I'd have at least a daughter...
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Category: Merced
Lott has started a blog and responded to the questions I raised about his claims about the Merced pitchfork murders: Fox News interviewed the father of the dead children and reported the following: "Lott cited a Merced, Calif. family whose...
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Category: Merced
I found a copy of the Fresno Bee story that Lott claimed "included the fact that while he was breaking in the eldest child, a fourteen year old girl with experience in target shooting, went to her parents' bedroom, got...
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Category: Merced
In chapter 7 of The Bias Against Guns, where Lott argues that "safe storage" laws cause increases in violent crime, he quotes from an op-ed: Jessica Lynne Carpenter is 14 years old. She knows how to shoot ... Under the...
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