Bias Against Guns

Last year, when Professor Marcus was teaching at Haverford College, I looked at their economics website to see if there were any courses I might ask to audit. I saw that they had a new free-market-friendly professor from the former Soviet Union.

I wrote him to ask about auditing but never heard back.

I googled his name and found it on this list of 290 scholars who advised the US Congress that gun control laws hurt people and increase crime.

Also on that list you'll find "John R. Lott, Jr., University of Chicago," who has written for LRC, and recently spoke at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Seattle, Washington:

"People are very surprised to learn that survey data show that guns are used defensively by private citizens in the U.S. from 1.5 to 3.4 million times a year, at least three times more frequently than guns are used to commit crimes. A question I hear repeatedly is: 'If defensive gun use occurs so often, why haven't I ever heard of even one story?'"

Read his speech.