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Gun researcher and author John Lott

Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News

(GunReports.com) -- Murder and violent crime rates were supposed to soar after the Supreme Court struck down gun control laws in Chicago and Washington, D.C., gun researcher John Lott writes on FoxNews.com.

He continued, writing that politicians predicted disaster. "More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence," Washington’s Mayor Adrian Fenty warned the day the court made its decision.

Chicago’s Mayor Daley predicted that we would "go back to the Old West, you have a gun and I have a gun and we'll settle it in the streets . . . ."

The New York Times even editorialized this month about the Supreme Court's "unwise" decision that there is a right for people "to keep guns in the home."

But Armageddon never happened. Newly released data for Chicago shows that, as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn't rise after the bans were eliminated -- they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the national crime rate. Not surprisingly, the national media have been completely silent about this news.

Read more at FoxNews.com and come back to GunReports.com to talk about it.

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I suspect that talking about how guns create safety doesn't sell as many copies of the paper, or get eyes for the blog or TV stations advertisers.

Comment by: david b | October 6, 2011

The media doesn't report that which doesn't match their political agenda which is to disarm the American people.

Comment by: carrier 5 | October 6, 2011

I'm shocked to my conservative soul...

Comment by: mariano | October 6, 2011

If any one of us thinks for an instant that any of the so-called mainstream media are going to take up the standard of Second Amendment rights, I have a Belgian Browning Superposed O/U that I will sell for $100.00. Our mission, as Second Amendment adherents, is that while we continue to enjoy our rights, it is equally paramount to educate as many non-gunners as we can. Every time I see some sort of editorial or article in our newspaper that criticizes our right to arms, I dash off an email response to the editor of the newspaper. Surprisingly, my letters are always published, so I feel that perhaps some readers may have gotten to think about the issues, and they may take a closer look at just what we are trying to protect. During my 21 year Army career, and when retired therefrom, my 22 year career as a public school educator, I always found ways of getting our points across to people of all walks of life. Education is one of our most important tools, if not THE most important of our tools, that we have available to us to enlighten those whom for whatever the reasons might be, have been misinformed, or simply ignored.

Comment by: canovack | October 6, 2011

I thought this news item was interesting. While discussing the 12% drop in crime rates, the 'experts' are completely at a loss to even attempt to explain it. Maybe they should look at gun sales and CC permit applications?

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2011/09/16/violent_crime_plunges_12_percent_in_us_in_2010

Comment by: david b | October 6, 2011

The educational system of this country should be teaching their rights and responsibilities as citizens and future leaders--among other things. But that systems appears to be utterly failing when areas of vital importance are ignored or depreciated because a teacher must concentrate on preparing his/her students for a standardized test, the results of which may determine that teacher's future employment. Absolutely, Johnny needs to be able to read and cipher--but he also needs to be able to think.

Comment by: Visigoth52 | October 7, 2011

Precisely my point, Visigoth. Because I had a fairly substantial Army retirement check coming in each month, when I taught for 22 years, I deliberately and successfully flaunted the system that wanted educators to teach to the test. I was prepared at a moment's notice to hand over the keys to the school and my classrooms if some stuffed shirt administrator got overly pushy with me. I refused to prostitute my values to a system with which I did not agree. For the most part, I believe that I was fairly successful, since I stayed in the school district for 22 years. As a grade level administrator, I also directed my subordinate teachers to inject as much of our old values into their lessons as possible.

I consider myself to be a reasonably successful productive American citizen, having successfully completed two careers of public service spanning 43 years (21 years Army officer & 22 years public educator). As I matriculated through my schooling I honestly cannot recall any of my teachers "teaching to the test". When we had our annual standardized tests, there wasn't a lot of hype associated with the events. About a week prior to test administration, we received letters to take to our parents that explained the testing procedures. On the day of the tests we all were herded into the cafeteria, and we completed all batteries and sub-tests in one day. That was it. Most of us were successful in passing the tests. Today, it seems that the entire school year is geared to preparing for the tests, which are administered over about a three day period. The accompanying hype places stress on the students to the point that test failure may result.

Comment by: canovack | October 7, 2011

Wow, could we ever go off track on education, huh? I have 3 daughters who teach, and I spent a lot of years in a university environment. But instead of opining, i just want to ask if you're familiar with the writings of John Taylor Gatto and if so what you think of them?

Comment by: david b | October 8, 2011

'Sorry to say, I am not familiar with Gatto's work. While the school district in which I taught picked a new guru for us to study each year, I basically gave lip service to the "forced fun" knee-jerk activities that school districts routinely ram down the throats of their employees. As a retired Army officer, I had experienced some pretty good educational techniques of instruction during my career. As a service school instructor, and as a student officer in service schools, I found that military educational techniques got the job done quite well. That said, I applied a lot of military techniques in my conduct of instructional activities with my students and with the teachers who were under my supervision. I was always rewarded with high rates of student success by using those techniques.

Comment by: canovack | October 8, 2011

Good for you sir, and congratulations on your successes with your students.

Gatto was considered sort of a radical revisionist of teaching methods. There's lots of his stuff on-line if you're at all interested.

Comment by: david b | October 9, 2011

I don't wish to sound disinterested or ungrateful, david b, but having been retired for five+ years, and perfectly content to have escaped the work-a-day world, I will likely pass on the offer to research much of anybody's work on revisionist teaching methods. As my wife and I often remark when driving past a school parking lot filled with cars..... "There but for the grace of God and some fairly good retirement planning, go we".

Comment by: canovack | October 9, 2011

Not to worry canovack. That's why I wrote "if you're at all interested". I know you've done your time - and you are entitled to your retirement and to have it in peace. If I could afford to retire, I would too.

Comment by: david b | October 9, 2011

David b, retirement is well worth the effort to set it as a goal. Actually, my own retirement came about fairly unexpectedly. As a retired Army officer, I had always been informed that Social Security benefits would likely be capped due to some legislation that prohibited "dual compensation". In December 2005 as I turned 65, I had to get a Medicare card in order to obtain military health care for "old farts", commonly known as TRICARE For Life (TFL). I applied over the phone, and when all was completed, the voice on the other end told me to expect my Medicare card in 7-10 days, and that starting in January 2006 they would be sending me around $1400/month. I gasped and asked about the dual compensation thing, and I was told that the law had changed, and that I would be getting everything for which I was entitled since I had been working since I was 15. Some quick math to figure in my potential teaching retirement, and five minutes later I was on the phone to my wife telling her that we would both be retiring at the end of the 2005-2006 school year. With my military retirement, teacher retirement (and that of my wife), and social security retirement, we would actually be better off retired than if we continued to work. That was certainly a very nice surprise.

Comment by: canovack | October 10, 2011

I wish it were otherwise Colonel, but without a big lotto payout, I won't ever be able to afford retirement. Call me 'lucky' I guess - a few failed 'entreprenurial' adventures, two divorces, two bankruptcies, always being in the wrong job when recessions and layoffs came around, etc., and I'm in a situation where all I have for retirement is going to be what SSA will give me - not enough for a decent lifestyle. And even though I'm 63, I'm still as active as I can manage to be so I need to work - I can't just sit here watching TV and not spending my little monthly checks.

Honestly, I'm afraid to stop moving and being active. Not only did I see my grandparents become weaker and more frail every time they said 'I'm too old for that now', but I've got so many structural injuries (bones and joints) that even a few days of inactivity takes it's toll next time I want to do anything. However, being active requires spending some money regularly - especially when it sends me to the chiropractor afterward!

Comment by: david b | October 11, 2011

'Sorry to hear of your situation, david b. It is always disheartening to know that some of our most loyal adherents are facing tough times. If you don't mind my saying.....Trust in the Lord. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. May God bless you.

Comment by: canovack | October 11, 2011

Canovack - thanks for the sympathy and offered prayers. I will gladly accept the prayers. Other than that, the sympathy is OK thank you, but not required. Many of those situations are after all the result of decisions I made, and while I sort of regret having no retirement probabilities, I don't really regret my choices in light of circumstances at the time(s) they were made. My first wife was fond of saying that 'life is a merry-go-round, you pays your money and you takes your chances' (a reference to when you could still win a prize by grabbing a ring out of the dispenser on the post as you went by). I made the best decisions I could with the information I had available at the time, and I took my chances....

But, I'll still gladly take any prayers for my aches and pains to be mitigated or injuries to heal away, and any for me to find some way to retire with a measure of security - 'comfort' not required. Security would be comfort enough. I do trust the Lord to care for me - but sometimes it seems that we're either on different schedules or have different ideas of what is required to make up appropriate 'care'.... On the other hand, some of my injuries came from an '84 traffic accident where a 20 year cop said he'd never seen anyone survive such damage to their vehicle (and I crawled out by myself), so I try not to whine too much about God's level of care. I was literally (as indicated by a cut in the center of my chest from the exposed steering column which would have cored me like an apple) within an inch of my life, and He kept me around. Sometimes I still wonder why...

Comment by: david b | October 11, 2011

He kept you around, because you are still a part of His Plan. Take care, my friend.

Comment by: canovack | October 11, 2011