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Recent content by JohnLott

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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    Unfortunately, few on this platform appears to be obviously familiar with the safety arguments involving guns. If you want to include safety arguments in your discussion, you might possibly find the emails that we send out of some use...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    In More Guns, Less Crime, The War on Guns, The Bias Against Guns, and in my many op-eds and other writings, I have continually pointed out how extremely law-abiding concealed handgun permit holders are. How do I show that? By comparing the rate that permit holders are convicted or crimes or that...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    Dear Solos: If you read my research, such as in More Guns, Less Crime or if you subscribe to the CPRC's email list, you would surely know that I haven't from benefits from mandated training and that in recent work at the CPRC you would know that we show that people get training even when it...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    If you refuse to discuss safety issues and how gun ownership makes people safer, you will lose this debate. I don't understand why you refuse to discuss how freedom and safety go together on this issue. On the other different issue, the same would then apply to voting. Again, do you oppose...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    Since freedom and safety go together on this issue, having data makes it easier for you to convince people. I have no problem with Constitutional Carry from a safety perspective, but I am telling you from a practical debating perspective on how to deal with safety issues that the data is on your...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    If you ignore the safety issue and just argue 2A points, you will lose this debate. People in the middle of this debate may value freedom, but they are often willing to trade off freedom for safety. Fortunately, from your point of view, in this case, freedom and safety appear to go together. If...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    Most people in the middle of the debate over guns care about safety and not 2A rights, and if you just make arguments that convince yourself, you are going to lose this debate. One benefit of having permits is that it allows you to track how law-abiding general citizens are in carrying concealed...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    Dear Hammer6: I suspect that you haven't actually read the research that I wrote up, and before you comment you might want to read it. The paper never says anything about others being able to carry on school grounds. Indeed, there are many states that allow parents or others with permits to...
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    John R. Lott, Jr., CPRSC. Should schools have teachers carry guns? AAHB Health Behavior Research December 2018

    Dear Doug: I am not sure why you posted the link to the piece so that it bypasses the download count. If you don't want other academics to see what research is getting the most attention, that is your choice, but I think that it is extremely short-sighted...
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