[On Sep 17 2002 I posted this to firearmsregprof.]
I've had replies to my queries about Lott's survey from David Mustard and Gary Kleck.
Mustard said that he was not involved with the survey. All he was able to say was what he had been told by Lott: that Lott had conducted the survey in 1997 and lost the results in a computer crash.
Kleck felt that Lott's survey should be ignored unless and until Lott publishes the results and methodology. This would be reasonable except for the fact of the 25+ occasions that Lott has made the "98% merely brandishing" claim.
Nothing from Lott.
More like this
The Chicago Tribune reports:
Last year an anonymous person from the American Enterprise Institute
repeatedly tried and failed to remove all
criticism of Lott from his
wikipedia page. He
At the The High Road there was some discussion of the cherry picked Lott article I discussed here. One poster, "agricola", criticized Lott, linking to my blog.
On July 12 The Columbus Dispatch published a letter from Paul van Doorn replying to an earlier letter from David Mayer that I commented on. Here is an extract (hyperlinks added by me):