The ancestor of this blog was my archive of Usenet and mail list postings about gun control. I created it in 1996 and updated it fitfully until I started this blog. Now I've folded it into this blog, so you can visit my archives from September 1993 and follow the raging debate about the frequency of defensive gun use. Each category in the archive has been turned into a category on the blog. For example, here are all my posts on Kellermann's research.
There are posts with discussion from Eugene Volokh, Clayton Cramer and Mary Rosh, all of whom have also gone on to start blogs.
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After discussion has simmered along via email, Usenet and mailing list, Marie Gryphon has posted a nice summary on her blog.
Several blogs have picked up on this: Julian Sanchez, Jim Henley, Jane Galt, Kevin Drum and Thomas M. Spencer.
Clayton Cramer has posted a letter from John Lott on his…
If you don't know who Mary Rosh is, you might want to read "The Mystery of Mary Rosh". Also of interest might be the blog post that unmasked Mary, and the latest Mary Rosh news.
[Editor's note: Most of these postings were made to Usenet. Some were made to comment sections on blogs, two are…
[Note: This is a copy of a document found at this link on John Lott's website on April 6, 2003. I have added critical commentary, written in italics like this. Tim Lambert ]
Statement on John Lott's Survey Work on Self-Defensive Uses of Guns
by David B. Mustard Monday 10 February 2003
Background…
Lott has a long message at his website where he discusses Mary Rosh and argues that when he claimed that he had "not participated in the firearms discussion group nor in the apparent online newsgroup discussions", he was not lying:
Another misunderstanding in the media is that I was lying as…