Reply #77: He has been pretty thoroughly discredited [View All]

[Bandit]

The concealed carry lobby would do far better to push their agenda with someone who is not so thoroughly discredited and doubted by those in and out of his field. Just as author Michael Bellesiles’ integrity was found by other scholars to be “seriously in question” after his book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, was found to be based on irreproducible records “lost in a flood” (sound familiar?), the forces who arrayed themselves against this pro-gun control scholar for his lack of academic integrity must likewise array themselves against anti-gun control scholars such as John Lott who are themselves guilty of gross academic dishonesty. Otherwise, their credibility will reside is the same rarefied air as “Mary Rosh” and Lott’s ethereal study “proving” that guns are almost foolproof at stopping crime.
You need to try again he has been found quite guilty of dis-information.