Lott has an interview on strike-the-root.com. He repeats some of the false claims discussed here earlier, such as his claim of a 440% increase in handgun crime in Sydney. He also claims:
Ninety-five percent or so of the time, simply brandishing a gun was sufficient to stop an attack.
It is appalling that rather than admit to being wrong, Lott continues to spread false information about what works when defending yourself with a gun. This
could actually endanger people's lives by giving them false impressions about what works and what doesn't work.
John Lott, on radio Free Republic, May 8, 2003 (At 1:08:40 of audio).
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):