Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News responding to all the false claims about how Australia’s gun control laws are a model that the US should follow. This is from a much longer discussion in the book, The War on Guns, and see the data at the end of this post from Lee and Suardi for part of the period. …
CPRC’s John Lott talked to Leon Byner about gun control in the US and other countries (Thursday, March 10, 2016 from 6:35 to 6:43 PM EST, 11:05 to 11:13 AM local Adelaide, Australia time).
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Among the Australian Senate’s recommendations:
The majority of Senators attending the inquiry recommend State and territory governments investigate avenues to decrease regulation of the firearm industry to ease the economic burden on governments, industry and legal firearm users.
Dr John Lott noted:
Prior to 1996, there was already a clear downward in firearm homicides, and this pattern continued after the buyback.
Here is a transcript of Hillary Clinton’s comments on October 16, 2015 in Keene, New Hampshire.
…VOTER: Back to handguns. Recently, Australia managed to get away, or take away tens of thousands, millions of handguns. In one year, they were all gone. Can we do that? If we can’t, why can’t we?
Dr. Kesten Green, University of South Australia Business School and a Fellow at the Crime Prevention Research Center, debated two gun control advocates Samantha Lee Chair, Gun Control Australia, and Professor Andrew Goldsmith Strategic Professor of Criminology at Flinders University. Their debate took place on the Australian Broadcasting Corp’s Sunday Extra show. …
Andrew Goldsmith and Rick Sarre had an op-ed in The Advertiser (South Australian newspaper) responding to two op-ed pieces that John Lott and Kesten Green, a professor at the University of South Australia and a CPRC senior fellow, had previously run in the newspaper (here and here). In response Lott and Green published the following letter.…
CPRC president John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green have a new piece in the South Australian newspaper The Advertiser. Their piece starts this way:
…HOW can we get back to feeling safe about taking the kids to school, going about our work and meeting friends for a coffee?
Islamic terrorists have demonstrated that they can attack anywhere, without any notice.
UPDATE: The audio of John Lott’s testimony is available here. The graphs presented to the committee are available in the link below providing the CPRC testimony. It was an honor for the CPRC to be invited to address the Australian Senate on this important topic.
Original Post: A notice of the public hearing before the Australian Senate later today (5:30 PM EDT US) is available here. …
The opinion piece that John Lott with Kesten Green, a professor at the University of South Australia, appeared in the Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser. We will try to add a link to the original article later.
(Click on figure to enlarge copy of the op-ed.)
UPDATE: The Advertiser has added a link for the op-ed piece available here.…
On October 30th the Australian Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs will hold its final hearing on “The ability of Australian law enforcement authorities to eliminate gun-related violence in the community.” The CPRC was asked to testify via teleconference on Thursday, October 30th, 2014 at 5:30 PM EDT. A copy of our testimony is available here. …
