John Lott, Jr., noted gun-rights advocate and author of Freedomnomics, had a reasoned response to recent shootings in Alabama and Germany, which spurred new calls for gun confiscation:
His piece, entitled “What Not To Learn From Europe: More Gun Control,” ran on FoxNews.com, and began, “Inevitably the massacres in Germany and Alabama over the last two days have produced more calls for gun control. Already the attack in Alabama is being used to call for a new assault weapons ban, even though there are no published academic studies by economists or criminologists showing that the previous ban reduced violent crime.
The Alabama shooting spree left 11 people murdered, as the killer went from one house to another shooting members of his family and others inside. Three victims were shot from the window of the killer’s moving car.
At least 9 students and 3 teachers were killed at the public school near Stuttgart Germany. Three other people were killed at other locations.
Unfortunately, the latest German attack is just another in a string of horrible K to 12 public school shootings in that country.
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