Guns Reduce Crime Debate: John R. Lott (2 of 13)

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The goal of IQ2 US is to raise the level of public discourse on our most challenging issues. To provide a new forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis. To transcend the toxically emotional and the reflexively ideological. To encourage recognition that the opposing side has intellectually respectable views. To engage the live audience as active participants who will ask questions and decide which speakers have carried the day by voting on the motions both before and after the debate.

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  • gun bans do nothing. Many criminals get their gun ilegally anyways.

  • Anything except your being helpless during a home invasion, assault, rape etc........

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  • @darwinkilledgod i don't know about australia in particular, but if the numbers were taken by the government sometimes they get fudged. in the UK they said crime violent crime rates went down after their ban, but what really happened was they changed the definitions of violent crime. I don't remember exactly, but they said something like if the criminal didn't actually shoot anybody then it wasn't a violent crime.

  • I think that there is one thing that we can all agree on...that bell is fucking annoying!!!

  • Does anyone know what's with his eyebrows? Plastic surgery? For what?

  • Gun control is for morons

  • I would like to hear John Lott talk about the gun ban in Australia. From what I've read the crime rate was decreasing before the ban, and continued decreasing at roughly the same rate after the ban and buyback program. It's not really a point for the gun-control people, but it's not exactly consistent with his analysis either. I don't know what kind of controls they had in the study though.

  • Mary Ross can't help you now

  • @Alxscode Guns can safe lives. In fact, SUVs aren't designed to kill people, but they 'kill' countless of people every year. Do you want to ban SUVs?

  • They are 110% safe if you follow basic safey rules. Raw undisputable facts will always trump specualation and gneralized statements, like the one you have just made.

  • lol idiot

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