where are the rivers of blood in the gutters after CCW?
In 1986, the US state Right To Carry (weapons for self-defense) laws
stood thusly:
1 Unrestricted, no permit or license required (VT)
8 Shall-issue, permits issued to applicants who qualify
24 Discretionary, permits issued at discretion of authorty
17 No Right to Carry, no permit or license granted.
In 2006, the US state Right To Carry (weapons for self-defense) laws
stand thusly:
2 Unrestricted, no permit or license required (VT & AK)
37 Shall-issue, permits issued to applicants who qualify
9 Discretionary, permits issued at discretion of authorty
2 No Right to Carry, no permit or license granted (WI & IL).
Of course, whenever one of those 29 new states passed a "shall
issue" carry permit law, Sarah Brady and Handgun Control Inc.
(aka Brady Campaign, Brady Center, Brady Center to Prevent
Handgun Violence, Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, etc.)
issued dire warnings that the gutters would flow with rivers of
blood as Wild West Shootouts broke out in the streets of [state
name goes here]. The predictions were trumpeted in the mainstream
media, but the fact they never come true was lost in the
publicity for the next gun control campaign.
THE ANTIS SHOULD HAVE THE BURDEN OF PROOF, just as the
assailant or home invader should have the "duty to retreat."
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Getting information about Lott from Tim Lambert is about like
getting information about Charlton Heston from Sara Brady or
Michael Moore.
In the Yale Law School article:
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/donohue/Fordham Law Review (2004).pdf
we find footnote 6:
The details of the charges against Lott raised by Lindgren
and Duncan are recounted in exhaustive detail in a web page by
the highly talented Australian professor
* Tim Lambert.
Tim Lambert, John Lott's Unethical Conduct, at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/lott98update.html
(last modified Sept. 20, 2004). Lambert also notes that Lott has
repeatedly generated estimates based on data sets flawed by coding
errors and refused to acknowledge these problems when the errors
were brought to his attention.
* MY NOTE: Lambert is a lecturer at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,
who teaches Computer Graphics and Computational Geometry, and operates a weblog on John Lott.
But elsewhere in the WorldWideWeb we find:
Mr. Lindgren adds that he believes it extremely unlikely that any
coding errors were the result of a conscious intent to distort the
study's findings. Lindgren notes that Mr. Lott has not only shared
his data sets with other scholars, but has made them generally
available to the public on his Web site <http://www.johnlott.org/>.
"You tend not to do that if you've intentionally miscoded your
variables," Lindgren says.
While Lindgren found literally hundreds of misrepresentations of
fact in Michael Bellesiles'
Armimg America, in John Lott's
More Guns, Less Crime Lindgren found one questioned statistic
(98 percent of DGU is brandishment only) and dubious evidence
about the survey that could have backed it.
And the weighting of the regressions with the Lott-Mustard data set
on CCW are so esoteric, different researchers can crunch the numbers
different ways and still get very minor differences. And those critics
have their critics.
And the gutters still did not flow with rivers of blood as predicted
by the antis.
or CA?
