John Lott was on the Voice of Russia to discuss gun violence in the United States, particularly the case of 51 year old Don Spirit who killed his daughter and grand children (also here). Comparable homicide rates in the Russian Federation and the US are available from the United Nations (pp. 107 and 111), and they show that the Russian murder rate is more than twice the murder rate in the US (with Russia’s murder rate of at least 11.2 and the US of 5 per 100,000 in 2009). The interview is available here. The interview took place on Saturday, September 20th, 2014, 9:07 to 9:16 AM.
ISIS-loving NYC bombing suspects mused about blowing up Right-winger, and desire to murder up to 60 people. Are we now going to ban people buying fireworks?
With so much discussion about right-wing terrorist threats, we thought that it would be useful to include this story in our files. The picture above shows one of the bombers trying to buy fireworks before the attempted bombings. Will we soon see calls for banning the...
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