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tlambert | January 28, 2003Kevin Drum has persuaded Lott to consider doing an interview. I think that is an excellent idea. With no-one in blogspace defending him, Lott needs a way to get his point of view across.
Atrios points his readers at Mary Rosh's blog, which has been updated again. (Though with only a few new postings.)
tlambert | January 26, 2003Atrios takes a swipe at the publisher of Lott's new book and it looks like Mary Rosh has started a blog.
tlambert | January 15, 2003Steve Verdon comments on the Ayres and Donahue study I cited yesterday. Unfortunately he doesn't seem to have understood what their conclusions were. Try reading the abstract, Steve:"Estimating more statistically preferred disaggregated models on more complete county data, we show that in most states shall issue laws have been associated with more crime and that the apparent stimulus to crime tends to be especially strong for those states that adopted in the last decade."
Now this study is correlational, so it certainly doesn't prove that carry laws…
tlambert | January 14, 2003Jim Henley has an excellent blog roundup with thoughtful comments and even ratings.
Julian Sanchez has an update where he includes a comment from an economic researcher that repeats what I wrote below: if his new survey only has 13 defensive gun uses, then this sample is far too small to say anything useful about the frequency with which defenders shoot, and certainly can't be regarded as "confirming" the alleged 1997 survey.
Thomas Spencer has a post that is critical of some of the folks who were all over Bellesiles for downplaying Lott's sins.
Marie Gryphon (who…
tlambert | January 13, 2003John Lott has emailed Jim Henley with another response to Lindgren's report. I'll comment on this below. Julian Sanchez also got the Lott email. I didn't.
Comments from Jesse Walker at reason.com, skippy, Guy Cabot, Kevin Drum and Steve Verdon. Brief mentions by Iain Murray, Charles Murtaugh, Tapped, John Quiggin, Natalie Solent, Gene Hoffman, Jr., jeff and Bruce R.