betting on what might have been, is no bet at all.
Bet on the future....come-on, man up.
Might's well go for broke then. An armed soldier on every corner across the states, plus a concealed-carry permit for every non-Muslim-looking person as well. That'll stop the terror.
open carry is legal here
as well as 'shall issue CCW'
Cute..Lott uses his own paper, based on his own research and conclusions (circa 2000) in order to prove that his arguments are valid now in 2009.
Try finding someone else's research and get back to us, MrLott
When you write the seminal tome on the subject, which is considered the creme de la creme of firearms studies
What did that sig line from days gone by say?
Something about how those building fell
cuz some airline pilots died?
By who?
That's "by whom"; and that would be John Lott. Don't you read post #1?
John Lott considers his own writing the seminal tome? What an arrogant dickhead.
That would be the entire firearms community at large, criminologists, and legal scholars.
Both Lott's book and his study have been reviewed by academics from a wide range of disciplines from criminology to public health. Many of these scholars found serious, fundamental flaws in Lott's methodology and found his claims to be unsubstantiated. These researchers include Jens Ludwig at Georgetown University; Daniel Black of the University of Kentucky and Daniel Nagin at Carnegie Mellon University; Stephen Teret, Jon Vernick and Daniel Webster, all of Johns Hopkins University; Arthur Kellermann at Emory University; and Douglas Weil at the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence.
Unfortunately, while flaws in his research have been widely documented in scientific literature -- and his findings dismissed by numerous, prominent researchers -- the gun lobby has successfully used Dr. Lott's flawed conclusions to persuade several state legislatures to loosen CCW restrictions in the mid-90's.
Now, after several years in which the nation as a whole has enjoyed a declining crime rate, there is direct evidence that Lott's conclusions are wrong. A 1999 analysis of crime statistics conducted by the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (CPHV) demonstrates that allowing people to carry concealed handguns does not mean less crime. The Center found that, as a group, states that rely on permissive concealed weapons laws as a crime fighting strategy had a significantly smaller drop in crime than states which looked to other means to combat crime rather than make it easier to obtain a concealed weapons permit.
United States Army Major Nidal Hasan told a radical cleric considered by authorities to be an al-Qaeda recruiter, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife, according to an American official with top secret access to 18 e-mails exchanged between Hasan and the cleric, Anwar al Awlaki, over a six month period between Dec. 2008 and June 2009.
"It sounds like code words," said Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, a military analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies. "That he's actually either offering himself up or that he's already crossed that line in his own mind."