Correspondence with 12 Gun-Control Advocates regarding Bet on Brazil’s Firearm Ban

Dr. John Lott contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocate academics, and he offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down during the first two years of the bans that President Lula has implemented.

Here are the records of the correspondence with the 12 gun-control advocates:

• Dan Webster, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

• Phil Cook, Duke University

• Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago

• Andrew Morral, Rand Corporation

• Garen Wintemute, UC Davis

• David Hemenway, School of Public Health, Harvard

• Chris Koper, George Mason University 

• Mark Siegel, Boston University

• Paul Helmke, Indiana University

A copy of the email response is available here.

• Frank Zimring, University of California at Berkeley

A copy of the email response is available here.

• John Donohue, Stanford Law School

A copy of the email response is available here.

• Adam Winker, UCLA