Study: Guns No Safer When Locked Up

Lott crashed a Daley press conference when he showed up and started heckling him during a press conference regarding the city's lawsuit against gun manufacturers. Maybe it was not the right time for him to attack Daley, but still Lott's point is well taken. Daley told Hugo Sonnenschein, the then President, that U of C will be in a whole lot of trouble if they decide to keep Lott. UC let him go and Yale picked him up. Loss for us, gain for them.

There are a lots of Olin fellows who have become tenured professors. I believe Richard Epstein was an Olin fellow as well.

While there are many former Olin fellows who are now tenured professors, Epstein is not one of them. The Olin fellowship is not itself a tenure track position. It is sufficiently prestigious and generally given to qualified persons who later receive a tenure track position. Lott never had a tenure track position at Chicago. I don't believe that he had one at Yale either. His positions are sufficiently controversial that he's probably been blackballed at every high profile law school.

The Law School makes faculty hiring decisions by concensus among the faculty, so truly upset liberals can veto a hire. The question is whether they are willing to overlook a policy disagreement and hire a good mind. Based on recent history, I'd say the evidence is mixed.

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

I don't know whether this happened, but if it did, it probably didn't happen exactly in the manner you describe. In any event, Daley is not a U of C trustee. having said that, I'm sure that if he wanted to make the University's life difficult, Da Mayor could do that. I don't think that pissing Daley of would be a career enhancing move.

The law school has its fair mix. It has Martha Nussbaum and Cass Sunstien (I have heard all the jokes), and it has Vermule, Posner, Easterbrook. I don't know how I would classify Epstein other than a liberatarian. Olin fellows are not tenured, but they can go on to become tenured track faculty member if they are good enough. I have heard about the John Lott story from several reputed sources. I have not witnessed it myself, but I am willing to trust the sources from where I have heard it. In any case, he is at worst an eccentric professor who cares about his work a whole lot. The university should have let him stay. In any case, I would be surprised if he does not get a tenured-track offer from Yale.

I only keep one loaded handgun in my house. The rest are unloaded and locked up. I figure I wouldn't use a rifle for self protection anyway. I guess two loaded handguns wouldn't be a bad choice either.

I do have one comment though. If you haven't fired a gun in 6 months you are incompetant with a firearm. Go to the range and also do dry fire practice otherwise unload them and lock them up. If you don't practice with your weapon you won't be able to hit the broad side of a barn even at close ranges.

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