how many guns
tlambert | May 26, 2003Also in the Fox News article we have:
But Lott counters that the number of gun accidents among law-abiding citizens is remarkably low given that about 90 million Americans own firearms.
As I explained earlier, Lott's estimate of the number of firearm owners is much too high because he misunderstood the question in the poll that he used for his estimate.
tlambert | May 18, 2003On 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 conducts many important national surveys for the government as well as other clients. During lunch Tom mentioned how important he thought the General Social Survey was. He felt the large drop in gun ownership implied by his survey would "make it easier for politicians to do the right…