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Originally Posted by Lebell
I can't recall ever seeing work referenced that discredits Kleck's work, but I'm certainly willing to look at it.
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I provided them in the past from paid services and asked people to give me references if they wanted me to dig some studies up for their side of the debate.
I'm not interested in gun control. I was going to ask the visiting prof from Berkeley who consistently sits across from Lott (Frank Zimring), but he turned out to be not very, ah, personable
. Yeah, that's the polite way to put it.
But the offer stands, if you have a peer reviewed study that you want to reference and make known, give me the citation and I'll pull it up--but I'm not going to dig around and prove a case of point I'm not interested in contesting. But I did do this--I don't come in here thinking I know the full ramifications of gun control and posting my credentials while trying to convince people away from your position.
Anything I've said is a parroting of people I trust who have done primary research. Zimring, asshole that he may be, is tops in the business. So I trust him in forming my
personal opinion--but refrain from claiming a criminological truth. Ya know?
But you'll notice that, out of respect for the secondary and tertiary research (I don't know of you doing interviews that would rise to primary research) you've conducted, I don't usually post replies concering the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of gun control measures. So I hope you'll notice that I haven't done that. But the reason is that I don't want to spend research time on a question I don't necessarily care about too much--so I attempt to limit my responses in that regard.