Subject: FW: New book is launched: The Bias Against Guns

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From: John Lott [[email protected]]
Sent: March 14, 2003 2:53 AM
To: John Lott
Subject: New book is launched: The Bias Against Guns

For those who are interested, my new book is out. I hope that you find
the
book interesting. I think that it is the best thing that I have written.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895261146/qid=1040595070/sr=1
-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-1755449-5958253?v=glance&s=books

Contents

Part I: The Pervasive Bias
Introduction: Why Almost Everything You’ve Ever Heard About Gun Control
Contains Bias
Chapter 1: The Good and the Bad
Chapter 2: The Media on Guns
Chapter 3: How the Government Works Against Gun Ownership
Chapter 4: The Shifting Debate

Part II: Examining the Evidence
Chapter 5: Evaluating the Evidence on Guns: How and Hou Not to Do It
Chapter 6: Acts of Terror with Guns: Multiple Victim Shootings
Chapter 7: Guns at Home: TO Lock or Not to Lock
Chapter 8: Do Gun Shows and Assault Weapons Increase Crime?
Chapter 9: Conclusion

Appendix 1: Some Recent Evidence on Guns and Crime
Appendix 2: Other Measures of Gun Ownership
Appendix 3: Supplemental Tables for Chapters 6, 7, and 8

Blurbs from dust jacket:

“John Lott’s thoughtful study should be read by everyone interested in the
control of violent crime, and the protection against terrorism.”

Vernon L. Smith, 2002 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

“John Lott’s 1998 book, More Guns, Less Crime, created quite a stir among
gun control romantics, whose expressive advocay involves neither sound
analytics nor empirical evidence. In this follow-on book, The Bias
Against
Guns, Lott continues the struggle, and responds to his critics, motivated
by
his strong conviction that analysis and evidence must, finally, win the
day.”

James Buchanan, 1986 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

“Another major contribution by John Lott to the evidence on the effects –
good and bad — of gun-control legislation. An important supplement to
his
More Guns, Less Crime.”

Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

“As a gun-toting rock’n’ roll star all my life, I have lived firsthand the
outrageous media and Hollywood bias against good guys with guns forever.
I
laugh in their face. John Lott is my academic hero.”

Ted Nugent, recording artist

“[Lott] marshals unimpeachable evidence on how the anti-gun crusade,
driven
by sins of omission and comission, might actually be costing many more
lives
than it saves. You’ll want to have this intellectual ammunition.”

Walter E. Williams, economist and syndicated columnist

“John Lott is a scholar’s scholar and a writer’s writer — and this book
shows why. That gun ownership might bring social benefits as well as
costs
is a story we do not often see in the press, and Lott here explores why.
With a blend of new data, evidence and examples, he impacks the bias
against
such stories in the media.”

J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Professor

“If you want the truth the anti-gunners don’t want you to know . . . You
need a copy of The Bias Against Guns.”

Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes

All the data for the book will very soon be available at www.johnlott.org,
but right now you can order it at:
http://www.aei.org/publications/bookID.326/book_detail.asp

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Subject: FUND FOR SHOP OWNER FACING CHARGES

PUBLICATION: The Edmonton Sun
DATE: 2003.03.13
EDITION: Final
SECTION: News
PAGE:
20

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FUND FOR SHOP OWNER FACING
CHARGES

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A notorious gun lobby activist is going to bat for an Edmonton shopkeeper
facing criminal charges in connection with a weekend shooting.

“From what I hear, he wasn’t doing anything but trying to protect
himself,”
said Jim Turnbull, president of the Canadian Unregistered Firearms Owners’
Association.

“The only mistake he made was not hitting that guy in the guts or the
nuts.”

Shand King, 45, faces four charges in connection with a shooting early
Sunday morning during a break and enter at his south-side electronics
store,
Audio 5.1.

Crooks crashed a stolen SUV tail-first through the front of the shop
around
4 a.m. and commenced looting, said police.

They fled when someone started shooting at them from inside the store.

On Tuesday, King’s wife Betsy pleaded for the public’s help in covering
their legal fees, and insisted her husband believes he did nothing wrong.

“We are not the bad men. We are not rich,” she said, sobbing. “These guys
were attacking our property.”

Betsy King said Sunday’s incident was at least the fourth time someone had
broken into the shop.

Turnbull started a fund with Alberta Treasury Branches as a private
citizen,
to support what he called King’s right to defend himself and his property.
“The federal government has used the Criminal Code to take away our right
to
protect ourselves. It’d be nice to tell the cops in advance when someone’s
going to rob you, but that’s not really practical.”

King declined comment yesterday.

“You’ve said enough about us already,” he said.

Police said yesterday they had not laid charges against their one
identified
suspect in the break-in, a 28-year-old man who was treated in hospital for
a
non-life-threatening gunshot wound.

Turnbull, 70, made headlines recently by being arrested for carrying part
of
a firearm during a Jan. 1 protest against the gun registry on Parliament
Hill.

He said anyone who wishes to contribute to King’s defence can contact the
ATB branch in Westlock at 780-349-8672.