| killerzX said: listing an expert on crime data, is like seece and nintendo? no, using an expert and his research proves my point. His agenda is to reveal the truth about crime. And it is a fact that nearly every mass shooting takes place in a so called gun free zone. and no it doesnt exclude public places, as why the gabby giffords shooting is counted as a non gun free zone. fact is more often than not, whether intentionally or not criminals choose easy targets |
Getting your facts from John Lott is like getting your fair and balanced Nintendo news from Seece, yes. Because John Lott is not so much an expert as a partisan hack. Anyway, what you should be doing is look at a claim as the one you originally made and think "Wow, that's pretty definitive information, perhaps I should check these numbers for myself". If you did you'll find within 10 minutes of looking around that there are many more then 2 "gun free zone" mass shootings committed in the USA the last 50 years.
John Lott is a man with books to sell, his research is most likely financed by the NRA and other gun lobbyists and has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar before making claims about gun crime that were completely bogus and fabricated. Using John Lott as an expert to prove your point proves nothing other than that you will latch onto anything that supports what you want to believe without spending a seconds effort acctually trying to verify the accuracy of anything.
