John Lott is very unpopular with the gun control crowd and has earned their everlasting enmity for demonstrating that almost everything they say is false. Typically they say he is outrageous and claim that his results are biased. What I have yet to see however, is evidence that contradicts his work. His work is available online
http://www.johnlott.org/ and he is happy to defend it using real numbers that can be verified. Below is one example of his work being published in a peer reviewed journal
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dmustard/ccw.pdf I saw him speak a few years ago. He has very little patience for anti-gunners who spout cant and dogma without facts and research to back them up. He reduced one very aggressive gun grabber almost to tears (much to my delight by the way).
Because of his position on the issue he has been subjected to the most intense scrutiny and not everything has been without controversy. On the other hand, those on the other side of the issue report only the most carefully cherry picked statistics and are seldom, if ever, scrutinized in any meaningful way.
Of course his reputation plunged among academics, after all he not only demonstrated that most of the lefts positions on gun control were wrong, he went to work at a CONSERVATIVE think tank for Gods sake. But which conservative university faculty should he have joined? After all, he had come up with data that supported the enemy!
Compared to ANY statistics put out by the gun grabbing crowd John Lott’s work is a paragon of probity and accuracy. If they had an answer to him, other than attacking and slandering him, they would have published it by now. After all, his book came out nine years ago.
