Timothy McGillicuty comments on Lott's attack on Levitt:
To my immense amusement, an NRA nut named John Lott has attacked him for it because, as near as I can tell through the foam and spittle flying out of Lott's mouth, he wrote the Op-Ed piece to hide the fact that he was anti-gun.
Roger Ailes posts on the Levitt piece and askjohnlott.org.
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I asked Steve Levitt about Lott's attack. He comments:
I wrote that op-ed piece on swimming pools and guns almost a full year before it was published. Members of the U of C publicity department can attest to that. I wrote it at the tail end of the summer, so they suggested waiting until the…
First, a recap and a time line on the Kopel/Lott/Reynolds attacks on Steve Levitt:
16 Aug 2001
Glenn Reynolds claims that the NAS panel is "stacked" with "ardent supporters of gun control", especially Levitt.
29 Aug 2001
Dave Kopel and Glenn Reynolds write an article in National Review Online…
Just so people don't have to take my word for the nature of Lott's attack on Levitt, here are Lott's exact words. On page 54:
- Another panel member, Steve Levitt, an economist, has been described in media reports as being "rabidly anti-gun."[10]
On page 289:
[10] Dave Kopel and Glenn…
Brad Delong points us to a New York Times profile on "rabidly anti-gun" Steven Levitt. The whole thing is worth reading, but this part is especially interesting to me:
The year after he was hired, his wife gave birth to their first child, Andrew. One day, just after Andrew turned a year old…