9/06/03
Pilots and Me versus the Violence Policy Center on Arming Pilots
At least this program on Voice of America News gives people some idea why there
is opposition to arming pilots. The bottom line is clearly fear. It
seems pretty hard through to see how people can have these fears about
what might happen when this is not a new experiment. Yet, as Gregg
Overman, Communications Director for the Allied Pilots Association,
says ́until 1963 the federal government required all commercial pilots
flying with U-S mail to carry a gun and until 1987 pilots could choose
whether or not they wanted to carry a gun. In all this time there was
never a fatal accident involving an armed airline pilot.
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Interview with National Review Online
Lyonette Louis-Jacques's page on Firearms Regulation Worldwide
The End of Myth: An Interview with Dr. John Lott
Some data not found at www.johnlott.org:
Updated Media Analysis of Appalachian Law School Attack
Since the first news search was done additional news stories have been
added to Nexis:
There are thus now 218 unique stories, and a total of 294 stories counting
duplicates (the stories in yellow were duplicates): Excel file for
general overview and specific stories. Explicit mentions of defensive gun use
increase from 2 to 3 now.
Journal of Legal Studies paper on spoiled ballots during the 2000 Presidential Election
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