curval... if you were to read the book then you would understand that I am being bombarded with the oppossite view everyday allready.
The thing is... Lott started out antigun. Like me he felt that the liberals were doing a very poor job of proving their point about how evil guns were. Unlike me, he felt that they were right but that they were simply incompetent in getting their view across... I of course felt that they were unabashed liars and scumbags with no scrupples .... he eventually came around to seeing things as I do after exhaustive studies.
soo... curval... I contend that it is you, not I that have never read anything that gives the oppossite view.... I am pointing you to a source that gives the minority (for academics) viewpoint..
It is also the best researched and most accurate data that is available... this is not some lazy hazy liberal here like no discredited author who won accolades for his book on how we really don't have a tradition of firearms ownership... that guy actually got caught making stuff up...
Lott's research is solid... his facts have never been refuted and he makes mincemeat of any half prepared liberal who trys to refute his data.
If you are only going to read one book that states my view or, one book on the subject of gun control in the U.S. then you need to read this book... nothing else even comes close so far as accurate data. You can make what you want of the conclussions.
He does not argue for rights... he argues from an economists view.. are guns in America a good tradeoff economically? do they do more good than harm or vice versa.
read the book and tell me what you think of it... read the ligberal press reviews and you will be embarassed by the obvious lack of credibility of the reviewers (some who have obviously never even read the book but pretend to have).
lazs
