Say Uncle suggests that I am "anti-gun" and implies that I "favor more gun control in the US". 
I am not "anti-gun". Here is a picture of me (on left) with a gun. Unless you think that Lott is some sort of gun, criticizing him is not being "anti-gun". Nor do I favour more gun control in the US. I have never written anything saying what I think the laws in the US should be---I don't think that is any of my business. As for Australia, I felt that the laws before 1996 were about right and I do not think that the 1996 laws were a good idea. (Not that there is the slightest scrap of merit to the claims by American pro-gunners that the 1996 laws caused increases in crime.)
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Lott's comments about Australia that I discussed yesterday follow a similar pattern to those of many American pro-gunners. First, they greatly exaggerate the restrictions introduced in 1996, claiming that Australia "banned guns" or, in Lott's case claiming that Australia banned "most…
Max Sawicky links here, as does Brad Delong and Hesiod.
Meanwhile, in a post that seems to have drifted in from some alternate reality, the William Sjostrom take on the Kopel/Reynolds/Lott attacks on Levitt is that Brad Delong is a sleaze.
In a previous message Glenn Reynolds…
The centrepiece of Lott's The Bias Against Guns is the story he tells about the shootings at the Appalachian Law School. According to Lott, after killing three people Peter Odighizuwa was almost out of ammunition and was on his way to his car to get more when he was confronted by…
On pages 36-37 of The Bias Against Guns Lott attacks Tom Smith:
A few years ago, while I was doing research at the University of Chicago,I had lunch with Tom Smith, who is the director of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). This private organization…
Apologies for the confusion. Statement has been rescinded. BTW, though I have never said it, I appreciate you keeping the debate honest.
am glad to hear it.
Please forgive knee-jerk reactions. Gun owners have been, as one writer described it, the victims of a "decades-long slow motion hate crime." It's left us a bit touchy.
And the preview feature seems to work quite well!
I agree. As Kevin Baker says, if you were a gun owner living in the States and were subject to the barrage of oppression disguised as objective news reporting and "reasonable gun control", you would be sensitive as well.
We have our many differences, but I appreciate the tone that you have maintained and your role in keeping our side intellectually honest by rooting out John Lott. (Although I will point out that it is easier to keep our side intellectually honest ;-) )