John R. Lott
John Lott (b. 1958) is a scholar who published his research demonstrating that an increase in gun ownership results in a reduction in crime, because guns save more lives through deterrence and self-defense than they kill.[Citation Needed] The title of his 1999 book, which became a class on the issue of guns, is "More Guns, Less Crime."[1]
Lott also observed how large newspapers and major media outlets consistently underreported the defensive use of guns to save lives. He found that factual accounts of the defensive use of guns would be reported in small rural newspapers but omitted from stories in larger papers, and stories that appeared days or weeks later.[2]
Some liberals have attempted to find flaws in Lott's work.[3]
One professor, Michael Bellesiles, wrote a book supportive of the gun control position that was entitled Arming America, The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000). Gary Wills praised it in The New York Times, but admitted later that "I was took. The book is a fraud."[4] Bellesiles resigned from his position as Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta when an independent committee of scholars examined his work and concluded that "his scholarly integrity is seriously in question."[5]
References
- ↑ Lott's book on Google Books
- ↑ http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/
- ↑ http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/Ayres_Donohue_comment.pdf
- ↑ Jonah Goldberg, Reports of the 2nd Amendment's death have been greatly exaggerated ... Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Apr. 8, 2007.
- ↑ http://hnn.us/articles/1069.html