Applause for John Lott...

Dr. John Lott spoke to students at the Commons, a facility located on the campus of Vanderbilt University last  Monday.

Although his appearance was sponsored by a campus conservative group, the students attending this nominally liberal institution gave him points for the overall quality of his presentation and use of statistics to back up his arguments.

Story here:


http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/17860

Sometimes I just shake my head (but stop short of swapping brain hemispheres)

Summary as delivered to my inbox by Google Alerts:

"Why Doctors Have a Right to Know TIME But it did something more: it dealt a rare setback to a gun-rights lobby that is increasingly using its considerable political power to support policies that have little to do with the right to bear arms and needlessly put innocent people at risk. ..."

Uh, Time... FU!  Putting innocent people at risk is the self-appointed job of the Brady campaign and their ilk.  I'm not too crazy about anyone trying to restrict the conversations between a doctor and their patient, but *protecting* innocent people is the purpose of rolling back gun control laws.