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June 23, 2016

Title: The Dirty Secret about the Senate, Guns, and Gun Control
Topic: Gun Control

Discussed by Dr. John Lott, Jr.
with Crime Research Prevention Center (www.crimeresearch.org)

The dirty secret about the four Senate Gun Control bills.

New guest John R. Lott, Jr. is a columnist for FoxNews.com. He is an economist and a leading gun expert. His op-eds on that issue are done in conjunction with the Crime Prevention Research Center. He is the author of eight books, including "More Guns, Less Crime” and "Dumbing Down the Courts: How Politics Keeps the Smartest Judges Off the Bench". You can follow John on Twitter.

Questions/Issues Discussed:

What is the dirty secret about the four different bills recently voted on by the U.S. Senate?

Would ending gun-free zones help to reduce the number and severity of the casualties?

But is the discussion of reducing the number of gun-free zones being completely ignored?

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) bill would ban people on the “No Fly List” from buying guns. Is this a step in the right direction? Or is it a futile hope grasping at straws? John Lott explains how “easy” it is to become branded for life on the “No Fly List”.

Is there any crime-reducing benefit from criminal background checks on gun purchases?

France’s strict weapon bans didn’t stop terrorists in any of the four terrorist attacks from getting all the AK-47s and explosive belts they needed for their devastating attacks on Paris. Is this an argument against banning the purchase of weapons? “Obviously everyone wants to stop terrorists from getting weapons,” John states. But banning guns will never stop the “bad guys” from getting them!

While Senator Chris Murphy’s (D-Conn.) bill would require background checks on transfer of guns between private parties, is this also completely unrelated to past mass public shootings?

Is the current back-ground check system a mess?

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