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Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

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5. discredited by whom?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Sun Aug 30, 2015, 09:09 AM

Aug 2015

A Canadian researcher named Gary Mauser did a survey of studies that appeared in peer reviewed criminology journals from 2000-2014 about the more guns=? Lott's more guns=less crime hypothesis was supported by 35 percent of of the studies. The best known criminologist in this camp is John Q. Wilson. Those supporting the guns=more crime were 9 percent of the studies. The largest group, 51 percent, concluded the number of guns makes no difference either way. The best known criminologist in this camp is Gary Kleck.
Five percent didn't know.

Of course, it is always fun reading him debunk Hemenway.

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CBS News Allows Discredited Researcher John Lott To Falsely Connect Gun Laws To Higher Murder Rates [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

CBS Sunday Morning has a feature on Dick "war criminal" Cheney? Kyblue1 Aug 2015 #1

Correction: lest the people remember or realize for the first time what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld did Kyblue1 Aug 2015 #2

Plenty of claims Lott is discredited; still not showing any evidence from Weasel Matters Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #3

A good break down of his work safeinOhio Aug 2015 #4

something more scholarly would be nice gejohnston Aug 2015 #6

Here's one SecularMotion Aug 2015 #8

scholarly gejohnston Aug 2015 #10

I must have missed where Lott's books have been recalled and taken off library shelves DonP Aug 2015 #16

Bullsh*t!! pablo_marmol Sep 2015 #21

I clicked on the link and read this -- Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #7

discredited by whom? gejohnston Aug 2015 #5

mauser & lott, bff jimmy the one Sep 2015 #17

I never said Lott and John Q Wilson were correct gejohnston Sep 2015 #18

quibble on jimmy the one Sep 2015 #19

expecting a lying SOS gejohnston Sep 2015 #20

Yeah! Only pro-control misinformation should be allowed! krispos42 Aug 2015 #9

Got it; hate the 2nd, not too nuts about the 1st or 5th either DonP Aug 2015 #11

There's also no love for the 4th and 14th Amendments. nt branford Aug 2015 #15

As opposed to your heros GGJohn Aug 2015 #12

Note: Discredited by their multiple peers, not the NRA DonP Aug 2015 #13

Yep, GGJohn Aug 2015 #14