Talk in Atlanta on The War on Guns

May 1, 2017 | Featured

On Sunday, April 30th, 2017, Dr. John Lott gave a well-attended talk in Atlanta on his book, The War on Guns, though it also contains some new information from a report just issued by the CPRC on how concentrated murders are in the US..  Chris Kellett, a Minnesota firearms trainer who often trains women, introduced Dr. Lott’s talk.

Sorry that the video is slightly rocking back and forth.

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2 Comments

  1. Tom Campbell

    Is there any way to see a written transcript? The audio is low enough as to be difficult to hear well.

  2. Rick Payor

    This is a great in depth, >1hour presentation, that shows how biased or just false some of the media sound-bites reported as ‘facts’ really are.

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New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.

We have previously examined how heavily murders concentrate in the United States, but this is our first analysis of firearm homicide concentration. The first two graphs show that the worst 2% to 5% of counties account for a share of firearm murders about four...