Am president of the Research Center and academic most of my life. Chief economist at a variety of different universities take chicago, stanford and yale. But i will talk about the misinterpretations of guns and crime. Im very empirical normally i can show you lots of graphs but i am stymied on this technical history but there are a lot of issues we can talk about. O off the top of my head, a couple of the claims we frequently hear about is background checks stop about three. Five dangerous people. Everybody wants to stop criminals or people who might be dangerous to get a hold of g a gun. The problem is theem claims made simply are not correct. Rather than saying three three. 5 million, what they say is therely has been three. 5 million initial denials and almost all of those are mistakes. It is one thing to stop somebody who is a felon from its another to stop them because they have a name similar to a felon so for example the last full annual report put out on the background checks i
And now on cspan2s booktv, more television for serious readers. John watts discussion on gun control is next from our libertarian conference, freedom fest. [inaudible conversations] all right, well i guess we are having technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you all know who i am. My name is john lott. President of Crime Prevention Research Center bid ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the u. S. Commission and positions that are a variety at different universities. University of chicago, stanford, yale. But im going to talk to you about some of the missed impressions people have about guns and crime. Normally, im a very empirical guy so i would show you lots of graphs and stuff. A little bit stymied on that given the technical issues we have but there are still lots of issues we can go and talk about. So, just off the top of my head, a couple claims we frequently hear about. One is that background checks go and stop about 3.
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