Lott, John

Lott, John R., and David B. Mustard. Crime, Deterrence, and the Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns. of Legal Studies, vol. 26, January... 

Although the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act (which bans gun possession in and near schools) was overturned by the Supreme Court, there are plenty of laws and policies that forbid students or others from bringing guns onto school property. John Lott suggests that the characterization of gun violence in schools is rather misleading ... 

See The bibliographies in Chapter 7 for representative studies and critiques. John Lott, quoted in An Interview with John Lott, Jr. University of Chicago Press. Available online. URL http //www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/ 493636.html. Posted in 1998. 

Can Flidden Guns Cut Crime Concealed Weapons Laws. The Economist, vol. 347, May 30, 1998, pp. 24ff. Summarizes John Lott s smdies that claim to show crime reduction as a consequence of liberalization of concealed-carry laws, and recounts opposing views of critics such as Franklin Zimring. The latter claims that Lott does not account for other possible causes of lower crime, nor for intermediate causality (such as whether the... 

Ramesar, Romesh. Should You Carry a Gun A New Study Argues for Concealed Weapons. Time, vol. 151, July 6, 1998, p. 48. Reports on John Lott s book More Gum, Less Crime. The most extensive study on concealed-carry laws and crime rates yet undertaken, it concludes that areas with more liberal gun-carry laws have lower crime rates. The book has touched off fierce controversy, and gun control advocates dispute some of Lott s statistical methods. 

Webster, Daniel W, et al. Flawed Gun Policy Research Could Endanger Public Safety. The American Journal of Public Health, vol. 87, June 1997, pp. 918ff. Attacks the methodology of John Lott and David Mustard s recent study that claims that liberalizing gun-carry laws reduces the crime rate. Among other things, the authors argue that Lott and Mustard mishandled variables and did not take into account the cyclical nature of crime trends. 

John A. Lott, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology, The Ohio State University, Starting Loving M-J68, 320 W. 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1240... 

Automated Enzyme Assays John A. Lott and Daniel A. Nealon. 143... 

DONALD F. GAINES, MARK B. FISCHER, STEVEN J. HILDEBRANDT, JEFFREY A. ULMAN, and JOHN W. LOTT... 

John Wilson s recollection of the Balltown Riot was rather different. More white people were killed than colored, he told Bond, but they did not make it known. Old Man Creole Lott killed about six. His wife hid his ammunition—that s the reason he did not kill more in transcript of Bond s interviews with John Wilson, reels 29-30, Horace Mann Bond Papers. On the Balltown Riot, see also Causes of the Balltown Riot, Bond Papers E. Russ Williams, Jr., History of Washington Parish, Louisiana, 1798-1992 (Monroe, La. Williams Genealogical and Historical Publications, 1994), 291-92. According to a newspaper account in the [New York ] Record-Herald, November [ ], 1901, three whites and as many as fifteen blacks were killed (Tuskegee Institute clippings file, microfilm, Perkins Library, Duke University). 

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