Study: Guns No Safer When Locked Up

foxnews.com ^ | July 5, 2002

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

SEATTLE, Wash.

[Washingtonian]

"This is an extremist, someone who believes that everyone in society should be armed at all times," said Matt Bennett, a spokesman for Americans for Gun Safety Foundation.

Typical liberal arguments. Attack the person with name calling rather than debating the facts. You would think that if they had the facts they would actually bring them up. Everyone should log on to the Foxnews website because they record the number of hits the articles get and they might be encouraged to publicized more research like this in the future.

Finally, I thought that Lott had moved from the University of Chicago. Has he moved back there?

[Jhoffa_]

Study: Guns No Safer When Locked Up

I will alert the local armory at once..

[Redcloak]

This is an extremist, someone who believes that everyone in society should be armed at all times," said Matt Bennett, a spokesman for Americans for Gun Safety Foundation.

And this comment is from the gun control lobby's moderate group! AGS, no matter what they might try to con people into believing, is as much a gun prohibitionist group as the Brady Campaign.

[basil]

I cringed when I read that the President would sign a bill requiring locked up guns if Congress should pass one. OTOH, until after the Nov elections, we have a little time as it seems that the dims have figured out that they have to shush the gun control stuff or face not getting elected.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

fyi

[umgud]

In a recent study, researchers found that parked automobiles emitted less polution had fewer accidents than moving automobiles.....

[Satadru]

Lott never got tenure at U of C. I think he is in Yale now. However, this particular research was done when he was at the U of C.

[john in missouri]

This is an extremist, someone who believes that everyone in society should be armed at all times," said Matt Bennett, a spokesman for Americans for Gun Safety Foundation.

And this comment is from the gun control lobby's moderate group! AGS, no matter what they might try to con people into believing, is as much a gun prohibitionist group as the Brady Campaign.

This is typical gun-grabber rhetoric: anyone who doesn't agree with their position is an extremist. Unfortunately, the labels are working for them. We need to publicize the truth: THESE PEOPLE ARE EXTREMISTS. (How do I know this? I know because of the way they freely label anyone who doesn't share their view).

[Draakan]

"But Lott counters that the number of gun accidents among law-abiding citizens is remarkably low given that about 90 million Americans own firearms. Far more children die each year from drowning and poisons"

And car accidents, abortions, parental killings, depression, drugs, gang related activity, crossing the street, bicycle accidents, wrestling, over eating, watching Dan Rather's liberal newscast, suicide, lawn mower accidents, Jet ski and boating accidents..................

[blackbart.223]

"Trigger locks and gun safes don't reduce the number of gun accidents"

I own a gun safe but the only time it is locked is when I'm not at home. I wouldn't want to try remembering the combination at four in the morning when I might need the contents of that safe. As far as trigger locks are concerned, I wouldn't own or use one.

[goldstategop]

I wouldn't buy a gun safe or use a trigger lock ever. What's the point of owning a gun if you can't use it to protect yourself?

[blackbart.223]

"I wouldn't buy a gun safe or use a trigger lock ever. What's the point of owning a gun if you can't use it to protect yourself?"

I would never own a trigger lock or encourage anyone else to. I own a gun safe to protect my guns and Nikon cameras when I'm not at home. The safe is never locked when I am at home. A locked weapon is of no use.

[GailA]

CCW bump

[goldstategop]

The anti gun Nazis would probably prosecute you for letting guns be accessible to the children. Heck, defy them and teach kids responsible use of your guns. There might come a time when Mommy and Daddy are not going to be home or are home and can't reach them right away and the kids will have to learn to defend themselves against someone who broke in bent on trashing the place or if worst comes to worse massacring the entire family. There was that case in Sacramento that comes to mind. Yes, the entire family should be made familiar with the do and don'ts of handling guns. It could save everyone's lives when the need arises.

[Born on the Storm King]

I have to admit, folks, that I just can't understand this trigger lock concept! As a former policeman, my first notion upon hearing about triggerlocks was "What would I do if I had to confiscate some fool's weapon which was loaded, trigger-locked, with a sensitive trigger?"

[financeprof]

John was an Olin Fellow at Chicago--not a tenure track position. He then was an Olin Fellow at Yale. I believe that he is current at the American Enterprise Institute as a research scholar.

Lott is one of the most prolific economists active today. By some rankings, he is the 3d or 4th most productive scholar in economics over the 1990-2000 time period. However, owing to his controversial research on guns and other subjects, he cannot get a tenured position at a decent university. He was at Penn in the 1980s and became persona non grata when he wrote conservative editorials for the Phil Enquirer. Not a career enhancing move when you don't have tenure. These editorials didn't endear him to his senior colleagues, and despite his excellent publication record he was bounced from there. Lott's career demonstrates that tenure, which is supposed to be a shield protecting scholars who do controversial research, can also be a sword used to attack those that dare challenge convention.

[B4Ranch]

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." ~ Albert Einstein

[Satadru]

There are a lots of Olin fellows who have become tenured professors. I believe Richard Epstein was an Olin fellow as well. I think what happened to him in Chicago was totally political. There are enough conservatives/liberatarians in UC law that he could have stayed, but he totally pissed off Mayor Daley by crashing one of his press conferences, and since Daley is on the Board of Trustees, I guess that didn't help at all. BTW, where do you teach?

[Atlas Sneezed]

This study has been out for a couple years.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa pers.cfm?abstract_id=228534