John Lott Interview May 2nd - MP3 Download or Listen Online - Great Info

[chiselchst]

John Lott was on Coast to Coast radio for 2 hours, on Monday night, May 2nd. You can downlaod it (or listen online) the first hour is here:

First Hour:

http://vaca.bayradio.com/ksfo_archives/ksfo_player.php?day=1&hour=23

Starts at ~20:00 in...

Second Hour:

http://vaca.bayradio.com/ksfo_archives/ksfo_player.php?day=2&hour=00

Right click on the link, hit "save target as..." or click and play. These archives are available for 7 days after the show.

John Lotts' last book:

http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Crime-Understanding/dp/0226493660/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304654955&sr=1-1

[ojisan]

Nice interview, I listened to it live.

[chiselchst]

I think there are some amazing facts born out from his comprehensive research, such as (don't quote me):

* 80% of gun violence is gang/drug sales related - due to the business of selling drugs.

* Drugs are illegal in the US, so the restriction on drugs would be the equivalent of making guns illegal in the US. Criminals have plenty of drugs that they can access, and the effect would be the exact same if guns were banned in the US. The criminals would always acquire/posses guns, regardless of any laws.

* Countries physically "islanded", with no borders to deal with who have have NO gun ownership laws, suffer HIGHER rates of gun violence.

* The percent of CCW holders that perform crime is EXTREMELY low, in the 0.0X percentage.

* Most folks that execute "single shooter multiple victim" events, search out GFZ's when researching their crime.

* The Columbine shooters actually WROTE to their respective representatives OPPOSING CCW on school campuses.

Just thought this was important enough to bump, as it will be unavailable this Monday...