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		A Note on the Use of County-Level UCR Data by John R. Lott, Jr.
		Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns by John R. Lott, Jr.
		Cold Comfort, Economist John Lott discusses the benefits of guns--and the hazards of pointing them out.
	johnrlott.tripod.com /postsbyday/RTCResearch.html (580 words)

	John Lott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lott went on to work at other institutions, including the Yale University School of Law, Stanford, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission (1988–1989), before taking a position at the American Enterprise Institute, generally considered to be a center-right think tank.
		Lott's critics also doubt Lott's claims to have conducted a survey in 1997, from which he concluded that in only 2% of defensive gun uses was it necessary for the defender to fire the gun at all, either at the perpetrator or as a warning.
		Lott claimed that, after weighting the study to resemble the demographics of the general US population the estimate was reduced to 5%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lott (3530 words)

	Deltoid » John Lott’s unethical conduct (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Lott has claimed that he conducted a survey over three months in 1997 that found that in 98% of defensive gun uses the defender merely has to brandish the gun to break off an attack.
		Lott performed a superficial analysis of the news stories about the shootings and found that very few of the stories mentioned the fact that two of the students involved in apprehending the killer were armed.
		Lott concluded that reporters deliberately left out this fact because they were biased, but a more careful analysis finds that the first stories published did not mention the guns because the reporters did not know about them, while the later stories were about different aspects of that matter.
	timlambert.org /lott (1119 words)

	John Lott - SourceWatch
		Lott is Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, where he "studies crime, antitrust, education, gun control, campaign finance, and voting and legislative behavior".
		Lott claimed the survey was done over three months in 1997, but he first cites it in February 1997.
		Lott claimed that "For every two additional fl Republicans in the average precinct, there was one additional non-voted ballot." [4] (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lott200312100915.asp) In other words, half of all fl Republican ballots were invalid.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=John_Lott (961 words)

	VPC - Who Is John Lott and Why is He Claiming That More Guns Mean Less Crime?
		Lott shares a common heritage with Judge Robert Bork and other prominent members of the Chicago School—the espousal of extreme points of view on the issues of crime, health and safety, and the environment.
		Lott argues that wealthy criminals should be able to purchase legal representation that will allow them to escape conviction despite their guilt.
		Lott labels global warming, ozone depletion, and the need for wetlands preservation "environmental myths." He dismisses any idea that the toxic chemical dioxin might represent a hazard to human health, despite the fact that the substance is rated as a "probable human carcinogen" by the Environmental Protection Agency.
	www.vpc.org /fact_sht/wholott.htm (593 words)

	Brady Campaign - An Alternative Q&A to John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime".
		Researchers who have reanalyzed Lott's data, for example, found no beneficial impact from changes in carry laws when Florida was not included in the study, or when they restricted their analysis to counties that had populations greater than 100,000 people.
		Lott's research also suggests that the presence of elderly fl women in the population is associated with higher rates of murder and auto theft despite the fact that these women are neither perpetrators nor victims of these types of crime.
		Contrary to John Lott's assertion that "such fears are unfounded," it appears to be increasingly evident that permit holders commit very serious offenses which, unfortunately, are not isolated events.
	www.bradycampaign.org /facts/research/lott.asp (2501 words)

	Reason magazine -- January 2000, Cold Comfort: An Interview with John R. Lott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lott, now a senior research scholar at Yale Law School, used to be the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow at the University of Chicago.
		John R. Lott Jr.: About six years ago, I was teaching a class dealing with crime issues at the University of Pennsylvania, and it dawned on me that my students would be interested in some papers on gun control.
		Lott: My guess is that [my critics] assume that the vast majority of people who hear their claims are not going to even look at the book.
	www.reason.com /0001/fe.js.cold.html (4490 words)

	Deltoid » Lott (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lott reckons that the carry law caused a reduction of 8% in murders, 5% in rapes, 7% in aggravated assaults and 2% in robberies.
		John has asked me to confirm for the record an incident that occurred in the summer of 1997, just as he was preparing the final version of the manuscript for submission to the Press.
		Lott often goes on to claim that 3/4 of the times the DG User fires the shots are warning shots, that only 0.5% of DG uses involve a shot fired at the offender.
	timlambert.org /category/lott (11291 words)

	02/04/03 - The (John) Lott Controversy
		I met Lott briefly after a seminar at the University of Washington in Seattle several years ago and was deeply impressed by his intellectual rigor.
		When Lott cited the statistic peripherally on page 3 of his book, he attributed it to "national surveys." In the second edition, he changed the citation to "a national survey that I conducted." He has also incorrectly attributed the figure to newspaper polls and Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck.
		Lott now admits he used a fake persona, "Mary Rosh," to post voluminous defenses of his work over the Internet.
	www.vdare.com /malkin/johnlott.htm (706 words)

	John R. Lott, Jr.: Archives
		John R. Lott, Jr., and Fern E. Richardson on an inspiring vote.
		John R. Lott, Jr., on the DC gun ban.
		John R. Lott, Jr., on the sad case of Britain.
	www.lewrockwell.com /lott/lott-arch.html (296 words)

	Econometric Modeling as Junk Science
		John Lott, an economist at Yale University, used an econometric model to argue that "allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes, without increasing accidental deaths." Lott's analysis involved "shall issue" laws that require local authorities to issue a concealed weapons permit to any law-abiding citizen who applies for one.
		Lott estimated that each one percent increase in gun ownership in a population causes a 3.3% decrease in homicide rates.
		Lott's whole argument came down to a claim that the largely rural and western "shall issue" states were spared the crack-related homicide epidemic because of their "shall issue" laws.
	www.crab.rutgers.edu /~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm (3311 words)

	City Pages - The Godfather of "Conceal and Carry"
		Lott, who is underwritten by the same John M. Olin Foundation that partially underwrites the CAE, gave a speech titled "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws," which also happens to be the title of his 1998 book.
		Lott claimed to have proven that when states in the U.S. let more people carry concealed weapons, citizens were actually safer; therefore, more guns caused less crime.
		Except John Lott, that is. In the second edition of his book, rather than correct the previous mistake, he attributed the 98 percent figure to a study he claimed to have done himself.
	www.citypages.com /databank/24/1159/article11064.asp (1099 words)

	Double Barreled Double Standards
		Lott's recent baggage makes him an impeachable witness in the push to pass state-level right to carry laws, and raises questions about his broader body of work.
		Lott's colleagues credit him with having a brilliant empirical mind and for publishing an impressive array of scholarly papers, as well as for being a pioneer in making his data available on the Internet.
		After testing Lott and Mustard's analysis with more years of data and different econometric tweakings, Donohue and Ayres conclude, "No longer can any plausible case be made on statistical grounds that shall-issue laws are likely to reduce crime for all or even most states"; their analysis even suggested such laws might increase violent crime.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2003/10/we_590_01.html (2655 words)

	Brady Campaign - Concealed Handgun Fraud: Exposing John Lott
		While John Lott's study covered only a short period of time, during which urban crime was already rising, Professor Donohue studied the longer impact of CCW laws.
		Lott has recently confessed that to counter growing skepticism from researchers examining his data, he repeatedly posed as a fictitious former student of himself named "Mary Rosh" to praise and defend himself in online forums and debates with researchers.
		Lott has been doing this since 1999 but was caught when an internet sleuth was curious about "Mary's" extreme defense of Lott and traced the "Mary Rosh" identity back to John Lott's own computer.
	www.bradycampaign.org /facts/issues?page=lott (1205 words)

	The Bias Against Guns
		Note: The blog site for John Lott featuring running commentary and a list of his op-eds can be found here.
		John Lott is my academic hero." --Ted Nugent, recording artist and author of Kill It and Grill It and Gods, Guns, and Rock 'n' Roll
		"[Lott] marshals unimpeachable evidence on how the anti-gun crusade, driven by sins of omission and commission, might actually be costing many more lives than it saves.
	www.johnlott.org (508 words)

	The Bellesiles of the Right? - Another firearms scholar whose dog ate his data. By Timothy Noah
		Lott's More Guns, Less Crime is the bible of the national movement to persuade state legislatures to pass so-called "concealed carry" laws, which permit citizens to carry concealed firearms.
		Lott's conflicting explanations naturally attracted suspicion, first from Otis Dudley Duncan, a retired sociologist at the University of California, San Diego, who wrote an article on the matter for the Criminologist, and eventually from Lindgren, the Bellesiles gumshoe, who has been posting his findings online.
		Lott's fake data--which he publicized to citizens in newspaper articles under his own name and in web sites as Mary Rosh--"proved" that a citizen could stop an ongoing crime 98% of the time, without firing a shot.
	www.slate.com /id/2078084 (1938 words)

	Amazon.com: More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws: Books: John R. Lott Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Lott's actual quantification of this, in the largest and most comprehensive study of the effects of gun control to date, a study well-detailed in the book, provoked a number of attacks, ranging from the amateurish to the subtly misleading, desperate to discredit him.
		Lott takes the time to refute each argument; it's almost touching the way he footnotes each time he telephones an attacker who eventually hangs up on him without substantiating any of their claims.
		Lott claims that if the nineteen states and District of Columbia, jurisdictions that either restrict of forbid the licensing of handguns, would follow the lead of the thirty-one nondiscretionary, they would enjoy a significant reduction in crime rates.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226493644?v=glance (3926 words)

	Dr. John Lott to speak on campus. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John R. Lott Jr., is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
		Lott has published more than ninety articles in academic journals including the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies, and is a frequent contributor to major newspapers.
		When Lott cited the statistic peripherally on page three of his book, he attributed it to "national surveys." In the second edition, he changed the citation to "a national survey that I conducted." He has also incorrectly attributed the figure to newspaper polls and Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/891468/posts?page=7 (1379 words)

	Posse Incitatus: John Lott strikes back
		Via the hated Instapundit, we came across John Lott's response to the National Academy of Sciences study on gun laws and crime rates on the Volokh Conspiracy.
		Whether Lott is eventually vindicated in full or retires to begin a second career in network television news (we hear CBS has some vacancies), gun control has just been dealt a crippling blow.
		Lott has been more successful at it because disproving a statistician is much harder than disproving an historian.
	posseincitatus.typepad.com /posse_incitatus/2005/01/john_lott_strik.html (2298 words)

	John R. Lott
		is (was--1998-99, ed.) the John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School and an avid proponent of Chicago School theories on law and economics.
		Lott shares a common heritage with former Judge Robert Bork and other prominent members of the Chicago School - the espousal of extreme points of view on the issues of crime, health and safety, and the environment.
		John Lott is still pushing his fraudulent work on the Florida election fiasco...his election work makes his gun work look like brilliant airtight scholarship.
	www.mediatransparency.org /personprofile.php?personID=56 (1287 words)

	Scholar Invents Fan To Answer His Critics (washingtonpost.com)
		Lott denied that he was the author of the review, an assertion made on various Web sites that have been tracking the controversy.
		Lott also is a lesser player in the now-diminishing debate over the 2000 elections.
		In a study two years ago, Lott reported that the decision by the major television networks to call the Florida election for Al Gore before the polls had closed everywhere in the state led thousands of Republican-leaning voters in the Florida Panhandle not to vote.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8884-2003Jan31 (1013 words)

	VPC - Funder of the Lott CCW Study Has Links to the Gun Industry
		Research conducted by John Lott, a John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, purporting to show that relaxed concealed weapons laws reduce crime has been the subject of severe criticism not just for its methodological shortcomings, but also for its funding source.
		There are significant links between the John M. Olin Foundation and the Olin Corporation, which owns Winchester Ammunition (the largest producer of ammunition in the U.S. and the manufacturer of the infamous "Black Talon" bullet).
		The John M. Olin Foundation was created in 1953 by the Olin Corporation, which produces, among other things, Winchester rifles.
	www.vpc.org /fact_sht/lottlink.htm (610 words)

	Who is Mary Rosh? John Lott is Mary Rosh, That's Who.
		For three years, John Lott pretended to be a young woman.
		Then a researcher at the conservative think tank CATO Institute discovered the truth about Mary Rosh and undressed John Lott for all the world to see.
		Currently, Lott is a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
	www.whoismaryrosh.com (256 words)

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