What Could Actually Work to Curb Gun Violence
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Fact-check: Republican and Democratic Lawmakers Get Facts Wrong on Gun Policy
NYT > Politics,
Senators Amy Klobuchar, Steve Daines, Dianne Feinstein and others mixed facts and falsehoods in their televised talk with…
Fact-check: Republican and Democratic Lawmakers Get Facts Wrong on Gun Policy
Noozilla Top,
Senators Amy Klobuchar, Steve Daines, Dianne Feinstein and others mixed facts and falsehoods in their televised talk with…
The assault weapons ban didn't work. A new version won't, either
Booster Shots - latimes.com,
There is no denying that the AR-15 — an open-source, modular weapon platform that's the fruit of many tens of billions of…
Today In the Perfect American Meritocracy
Lawyers, Guns & Money,
I hope those of you who have criticized the great James Bennet will apologize for not properly deferring to your social…
New York Times publishes column from the world’s least reliable gun researcher
ThinkProgress » Climate Progress,
John Lott, a discredited researcher with a history of pushing false and misleading information about guns, scored space in…
2017 According to 2.8 Billion Tweets
The Big Picture,
Source: Visual Capitalist This is a fascinating look at what we tweeted about the most in 2017. Lots of the largest tweet-spa…
Healthcare Triage: Homicide and Firearms – Guns and Public Health Part 2
The Incidental Economist,
Let’s be clear. The biggest thing people worry about with guns in the US is homicide. There are lots of ways to look at the data…
Violent crime increases in right-to-carry states
Stanford News Headlines,
Stanford Law School Professor John Donohue found that states that adopted right-to-carry concealed handgun laws have…
This week at progressive state blogs: 'Oh, Hell No, John McCain'; Trump could boost Jersey Dems
Daily Kos,
This week at progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused…
The NRA’s Favorite Gun “Academic” Is A Fraud
ThinkProgress,
The journalistic quest for neutrality has led to a sacrifice of intellectual integrity.CREDIT: AL JAZEERA, THINKPROGRESSBy…
The Discredited Nonsense That Gave America The ‘More Guns, Less Crime’ Myth
ThinkProgress,
Want to know why America has an epidemic of gun violence? It's because we have an epidemic of guns. The post The Discredited…
The Gun Control Battle Isn't About Guns As Weapons. It's About Guns as Symbols.
Big Think,
While guns don’t kill people, they certainly do make killing easier.Read More
What liberals don’t want to admit about gun control
Ezra Klein,
Following the fatal shooting of nine people at a community college in southern Oregon last week, President Obama renewed his…
[Eugene Volokh] Zero correlation between state homicide rate and state gun laws
The Volokh Conspiracy,
There’s been much talk recently — including from President Obama — about there being a substantial correlation between state-leve…
Mother Jones joins the list of left wingers trying to discredit me and the Crime Prevention Research Center
John Lott's Website,
The doctored picture above is from Mother Jones' article on me-- not quite sure what they have done to my neck.For several years…
Response to Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes' claims at "ArmedwithReaon" about my research
John Lott's Website,
Recently Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes claimed that defensive gun use was a myth. Gary Kleck wrote a response where he…
My newest Fox News piece: 'Assault weapons' debate: The folly of Rep. Rosa DeLauro's buyback bill
John Lott's Website,
My newest piece for Fox News starts this way:Gun control advocates introduced a bill in April that only gun control supporters…
Right-to-carry laws: The link between guns and crime
Journalist's Resource,
2014 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research examining and correcting the findings of a much-cited 1997 working…
More guns, more crime: New research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement
Wonkblog,
Making the world safer, or less safe? (Flickr user Robert Nelson / CC) "More guns, less crime" - surely you've heard this…
More guns, more crime: New research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement
Ezra Klein,
Making the world safer, or less safe? (Flickr user Robert Nelson / CC) "More guns, less crime" - surely you've heard this…
Shooting sprees, rampage violence: Research roundup
Journalist's Resource,
Literature review of studies relating to various aspects of mass shooting/murder incidents in the United States and abroad.The…
More guns, less crime? Not exactly.
Ezra Klein,
(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Over the weekend, a federal judge struck down the District's ban on carrying handguns in public…
Mass murder, shooting sprees and rampage violence: Research roundup
Journalist's Resource,
Literature review of studies relating to various aspects of mass shooting/murder incidents in the United States and abroad. The…
Is this how motivated innumeracy happens?...
Cultural Cognition Blog,
So what if the reasoning is fallacious? It's the motivation that counts, right? Imagine a group of adults slapping their thighs
Is US gun control an important issue?
Overcoming Bias,
After the shocking massacre in Connecticut it looks like gun control is going to draw a lot of attention from Obama and…
Cultural vs. ideological extremists: the case of gun control
Cultural Cognition Blog,
Look what those nut job socialists
A Tale of (the Tales Told About) Two Expert Consensus Reports: Death Penalty
Cultural Cognition Blog,
What is the expert consensus on whether the death penalty deters murders—or instead increases them through a cultural “brutalizat…
Krishna Chinthapalli on the questions around gun control in the US
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TweetIt is the 13th leading cause of death, between liver cirrhosis and renal failure. There are more and more frequent…
The black and white -- but mainly gray -- of gun control and drug prohibition, part 1
Cultural Cognition Blog,
This is part one of a two-part series on race, gun control, and drug criminalization. The motivation for the series grows out…
Reducing Gun Violence By Legalizing Drugs
The Volokh Conspiracy,
(Ilya Somin) In the wake of the Newtown massacre, there has, understandably, been a new wave of advocacy of policy proposals…
Actually, empirical evidence suggests a sure fire way to dramatically lower gun homicides: repeal drug laws
Cultural Cognition Blog,
Sticking my umbrella up to try to deflect the tsunami of specious, beside-the-point, hiding-the-cultural-imperialism-ball…
How Cultural Cognition Can Inform the Gun Conversation
Discover Top Stories,
Like the debate on climate change and other societally important issues caught in the maw of our culture wars, the discourse on…
Statistics: the monopoly money of the gun-debate marketplace of ideas
Cultural Cognition Blog,
This is what makes people cynical about empirical arguments in policy debate. Recognize when the data are inconclusive, or else…
"More statistics, less persuasion": the gun control debate continues, and continues to miss the point...
Cultural Cognition Blog,
I was planning to write something about Moore v. Madigan, No. 12-1269 (7th Cir. Dec. 11, 2012), the U.S. Court of Appeals…
What does the Trayvon Martin case mean? What *should* it mean? part 2
Cultural Cognition Blog,
In part 1, I argued that what the Trayvon Martin case means won’t turn on what the facts are found to be. On the contrary, what…
Is the "culture war" over for guns?
Cultural Cognition Blog,
One of the students in my HLS criminal law class drew my (and his classmates') attention to this poll showing that a pretty…
Why You Can't Cure a Plague of Olbermanns With An Infusion of O'Reillys
Mind Matters | Big Think,
Do left-leaning social sciences need an influx of…
More Guns, Less Crime hypothesis: still dead
Deltoid,
A few years ago, the National Research Council reviewed the evidence on firearms and crime and concluded: There is no…
After Virginia Tech, a Closer Look at Gun Stats
The Numbers Guy,
AP The Virginia Tech shootings have reignited the U.S. gun-control debate, and advocates on both sides are using…