We are having some technical problems hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you know who i am. From the Crime Research center chief economist at the Us Sentencing Commission like Wharton Business School university of chicago and stanford and yale. And those miss impressions of guns and normally i am a very empirical guy and with that stymied issue but there is a lot of issues we can talk about. And a couple of claims that we frequently hear about that the background check stop three three. 5 Million People and then to try to stop criminals or other people who may be dangerous. That the claims that are made simply are not correct. To say three. 5 Million People but to say there have been three and a half initial denials. Those who were a felon its another to stop because they have a name similar to a felon. And then to have 76048 cases referred for prosecution. But often you will hear to not enforce the law but in that rage prosecutions is true under clinton and under obama
[inaudible conversation] soon agree with the people here . Im a volunteer here. [inaudible conversation] twomac i guess were having a few technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you all who i am, my name is john lott, i am president Crime Prevention research center. Ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the commission, ive had positions that in a variety of different universities Like University of chicago, stanford, yale. Im going to talk to you a little bit about some of the misimpression that people have about guns and crime. Normally im a very empirical guy. I would go and show you lots of graphs and stuff. Im a little bit stymied on that be given the technical issue we have here. But theres still a lot of issues we can go to talk about. Just off of the top of my head, a couple of the claims that we frequently hear about, one is that background checks. They go and stop about 3. 5 dangerous people from prohibiting guns. Everyb
Crime Prevention Research center. Ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the commission, ive had positions that in a variety of different universities Like University of chicago, stanford, yale. Im going to talk to you a little bit about some of the misimpression that people have about guns and crime. Normally im a very empirical guy. I would go and show you lots of graphs and stuff. Im a little bit stymied on that be given the technical issue we have here. But theres still a lot of issues we can go to talk about. Just off of the top of my head, a couple of the claims that we frequently hear about, one is that background checks. They go and stop about 3. 5 dangerous people from prohibiting guns. Everybody wants to try and stop criminals are the people who might be dangerous from being able to going get a loaded gun. The problem is that the claims that are made, simply arent correct. Rather than saying 3. 5 Million People have been stopped from buying guns, with they s
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