[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Quote of the Day by EternalVigilance

[Godel]

Nice to see that we hold ourselves to a higher standard than liberals, and that honesty, integrity, and facts still count, not blind adherence to idealogy.

[gubamyster]

PING

[.45MAN]

Keep up the good work on the posts. The truth is out there...

[Carry_Okie]

Far be if from me to defend Dr. Lott, whose success in broaching the obvious about individual gun ownership needs no plaudit, but I do wish to offer this:

I wrote a book. It was the work of a lifetime. It cost me $400,000 in cash outlay and lost income and virtually ended my professional career. It has been a financial bomb, in large part because I have no money left to promote it. I did everything I knew to get others to review my data and my findings. I have NO IDEA how thorough those individuals were but I have my suspicions that they were blown away by the sheer volume of the data. I live in constant anguish that somewhere I might have made a "too-hopeful" conclusion or stupid error.

I don't have Dr. Lott's credentials. Lacking fame or money means that anyone you would want to review your book, won't. I have had to acquire reviews by sheer force of determination and the whole thing grows stale while they take six months to maybe read it, or tell you they don't have time (after you sent them a free copy). Given that it is an interdisciplinary work, it is almost impossible to get even the most supportive academic to put anything in writing.

I can thus easily understand the massive temptations that operated on John Lott. If he truly blew it, I feel for the guy.

[Bonaparte]

That book of Lott's is probably the most exhaustively investigated ever -- and the gun-grabbers only found one error. If there were more, they would surely have found them by now and he'd be pilloried just like Bellesiles. But he hasn't been.

I call that good news.

[Redbob]

"Lott claims to have lost all of his data due to a computer crash."

This sounds 'way too much like Mikey Bellesiles' "the roof leaked on my yellow notepads that were stored on the floor of my office" excuse!

I pray it's not true - Lott has been the staunchest possible defender of the Second Amendment!

[lodwick]

Truthful bttt

[Ches]

If Congress and SCOTUS could read the Bill of Rights as it was written there would be no need for this research to justify allowing us to concealed carry. We may never have heard of Lott.

IMHO it is all symptomatic.

[Atlas Sneezed]

This is like learning that Charlton Heston is a secret cross-dresser.

Not pertinent to his principles, conclusions, and achievements, but it makes one squirm all the same.

[Travis McGee]

Lott going down in flames ping.