New op-ed: Media Coverage of Mall Shooting Fails to Reveal Mall's Gun-Free Zone Status
The oped can be read here.
Labels: GunFreeZone, op-ed
posted by John Lott at 11:22 AM
12/06/2007
- Name: John Lott
- Location: Virginia, United States
About Me
Amazed how lucky I am that I have had jobs where I could just think about whatever I wanted to think about. This summer I will be moving to the University of Maryland. Previously I held positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford, UCLA, Wharton, and Rice and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988 and 1989. I have published over 90 articles in academic journals. I received my Ph.D. in economics from UCLA in 1984.
E-mail: johnrlott@aol.com
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Previous Posts
- Evidence that the Omaha Westroads Mall was yet ano...
- A fast look at the media coverage on the Omaha Wes...
- Another Gun Free Zone Killing
- For Hanukkia light one fewer candle to save the pl...
- Logical inconsistency in using the death penalty?
- More Women Packing Concealed Handguns in Michigan
- Very lively debate on Supreme Court Gun Ban Case
- Michelle Obama (Barack's wife) sees need for guns ...
- Podcast from Appearance on Air America last Thursd...
- Philly Scouts face eviction
Book Reviews
- For a list of book reviews on The Bias Against Guns, click here.
Interesting Past Topics
-Research finding a drop in violent crime rates from Right-to-carry laws
-Ranking Economists
-National Academies of Science Panel on Firearms
-Baghdad murder rate
-Arming Pilots
-Appalachian law school attack
-Sources for Defensive Gun Uses
-The Merced Pitchfork Killings
-Fraudulent website pretending to be run by me
-Steve Levitt's Correction Letter
-Ian Ayres and John Donohue
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-General discussion of my 1997 and 2002 surveys as well as related surveys
-Problems with Wikipedia
-Errata for Gun Books
Links
Economist and Law Professor David D. Friedman's Blog
Economist Robert G. Hansen's Blog
A debate that I had with George Mason University's Robert Ehrlich on guns
Lyonette Louis-Jacques's page on Firearms Regulation Worldwide
An interview concerning More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
The End of Myth: An Interview with Dr. John Lott
Art DeVany's website, one of the more innovative economists in the last few decades
St. Cloud State University Scholars
Bryan Caplan at George Mason University
Alphecca -- weekly review on the media's coverage of guns
Xrlq -- Some interesting coverage of the law.
Career Police Officer
Gun Law News
Georgia Right-to-Carry
Darnell's The Independent Conservative Blog
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My hidden mathematical ability (a math professor with the same name)
geekwitha45
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Wrightwing's blog
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St. Maximos' Hut
Dad29
Sonya Jones takes on the Enviros
Eric Rasmusen
William Sjostrom
Dr. T's EconLinks.com
Interview with National Review Online
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Updated Media Analysis of Appalachian Law School Attack
Journal of Legal Studies paper on spoiled ballots during the 2000 Presidential Election
Data set from USA Today, STATA 7.0 data set
"Do" File for some of the basic regressions from the paper
More Books of Mine
Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics and Public Policy
Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?
2 Comments:
fyi, Some of you links to other stories are missing or broken on the fox site.
Wonderful piece.
As this shooting story was unfolding I made calls to stores at the mall and learned that Westroads had a no gun policy with signs in place.
I published the correct information
and now have a follow up article about security companies and their selling the idea of metal detectors for the malls.
Our politicians and the media have spent decades programing Americans to be somehow accept we are all incapable of resisting any attack.
They have manufactured at least two generations of real cowards that can olny run and call 911 while they wait to die.
www.crimefilenews.com
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