A reader reminds me of another problem with Lott's attack on UN gun control efforts that I discussed yesterday. Lott argues that the UN's regulations would prevent people from obtaining small arms to resist totalitarian regimes. This is rather undercut by the Iraqi experience. Tim Noah observes that Iraqis seemed to have been well armed without ever overthrowing a repressive dictatorship. Also of interest are follow-up postings by Tim Noah and Jim Henley and the ensuing blogspace discussion ably covered by Henley here.
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... because it's evidently a bad weekend for teams Jim Henley is rooting for.
John Quiggin has written an article for the Australian Financial Review examining the role weblogs played in the John and Trent Lott affairs.
Via Jim Henley comes a test to see how nerdy you are.
John Lott has emailed Jim Henley with another response to Lindgren's report. I'll comment on this below.