RADIOFR'S *UNSPUN* TONIGHT: Dr. John Lott, Jr.

[AnnaZ]

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May 8th, 2003

w/Special Guest Hostess Diotima

This week's guest:

Dr. John Lott, Jr.

Resident Scholar at
The American Enterprise Institute

Articles by John Lott

The Bias Against Guns by John Lott

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[Just another Joe]

Can I send this thread in an e-mail to the white house?
I think the President needs to listen.

[AnnaZ]

LOL! (We tried to get someone from the White House last show to counter GOA's Larry Pratt.)

 

Does the AWB Extension hit the Senate today?

[herewego]

Big Boom Bump!!

[Notforprophet]

Yes it hit the Senate today. Boxer or Feinstein, I forget witch, oops which one introduced it. :)

NFP

[Notforprophet]

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[HangFire]

This is going to be good BUMP!

[herewego]

you got it bump!!

[budwiesest]

Checking in, bump to the top.

[KS Flyover]

[herewego]

black rifle bump

[CounterCounterCulture]

Cool...just in time for John Lott.

[Interesting Times]

Lott says he "backed into" the gun issue after teaching classes on crime. He thought some of his students would be interested in material on gun control, and was shocked by how bad the research was -- small samples, ignoring arrest and conviction rates and so on -- and decided he could do a better job.

Cool.

[Interesting Times]

Lott's new book is called "The Bias Against Guns."

[Interesting Times]

Lott points out as an example of anti-gun bias in the media, that when a gun is used to stop a crime -- even a crime that is well publicized -- that fact is rarely reported.

[Interesting Times]

He mentions the shooter at the Appalachian Law School that was stopped by students who went to their cars to get guns. Two of 200 stories on the event even mentioned that they used guns to stop the attack.

[Interesting Times]

Lott called up a number of reporters to see if they knew the facts, and if so, why they reported the event as they did. The reporters knew that the students used guns to subdue the attacker, yet systematically misinformed their readers. A Washington Post reporter told him that point was left out "due to space considerations."

[Interesting Times]

Lott is now covering the dishonest statistics used to make it appear that large numbers of children are killed in gun accidents. The actual number of children under ten killed by guns in 1999 was 31. Only 6 cases were where the child shot him/herself or another child. Lott emphasizes that this is certainly tragic, but is hardly on the scale that is commonly believed.

[Fred Mertz]

Who's the handsome guy in the back seat?

I just tuned in. Hi AnnaZ! Hi Dio!

[Interesting Times]

Lott points out that the media completely suppresses the benefits of gun ownership, leaving people overwhelmed with anti-gun information and anecdotes.

[Interesting Times]

Lott thinks that if the truth about gun ownership -- that the benefits to society outweigh the costs -- becomes widely understood, that a "tipping effect" will occur in public attitudes towards guns and gun control laws.