President @crimeresearch1,"More Guns,Less Crime"(UChicago Press, 3rd ed);10 books, 100+refereed articles. PhD Econ,
Past Sr Advisor USDOJ,UChicago,Wharton,Yale
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Feb 3 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Can you pass the US citizenship exam?
All you have to do to pass the US citizenship test is answer 6 out of 10 questions correctly.
Amazingly, only 30% of US adults and just 3% of public high school students in America can pass it!
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Abraham Lincoln
E) Benjamin Franklin
F) Alexander Hamilton
May 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Abortion in EU much more restrictive than those in the US. Beyond time limits: "Countries tend to apply stricter limits after those times, such as requiring sign-off from multiple doctors or allowing later abortions ONLY if the mother’s life is in danger." wsj.com/articles/europ…
"Britain & the Netherlands are among the more permissive, allowing abortion under most circumstances up to 24 weeks...Poland & a handful of small, majority-Catholic countries are at the other end of the spectrum, banning abortion under most circumstances..."
Mar 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
.@MeredithDeliso at @ABCNews writes about Alabama's new #ConstitutionalCarry law.
She erroneously cites 1 study claiming these laws are dangerous that isn't even about this type of law.
Ignores refereed work showing benefits Table 3 ssrn.com/abstract=38504… abcnews.go.com/US/permitless-…
.@MeredithDeliso's piece is on police "opposing" it.
She ignores the law's author was an officer for 30yrs & his whole family are police. There is significant opposition by police, but it is far from universal &, more importantly, police opposition doesn’t continue or reduces.
Sep 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Here is a series of some of the instances where #Biden keeps announcing he is doing what he is told to do. The press meekly goes along with the limits on who can ask pre-screen questions. Imagine the uproar if Trump pre-screened questions like this. #mediabias
.@sndurlauf, again, responses in order. They have been responsive. 1) I am looking at small areas across the street from each other and using one measure of political interests to explain another one. The difference in the share of the in-person votes is already picking up a ...
...lot of difference in the political interests between the two adjacent precincts that one might measure with other demographic variables. Indeed, for the Georgia data in 2020, the year that you say is impossible to really explain, that variable by itself explains 82% of the...
2) It is not clear why Steve is discussing county data. Precincts are much smaller units. Fulton County had 384 precincts in 2020 (404 in 2016, but consolidated some because of the Coronavirus). By looking at adjacent precincts...
...across the street from each other, I compare places that are much more similar to each other than county comparisons. In addition, controlling for the difference in Trump’s share of the in-person vote & the difference in race & gender demographics, you are picking up a...
Nov 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Massive vote fraud occurring in Pennsylvania
Statement from State Senate Leaders. Media ignores. senatorcorman.com/2020/11/03/sen…
Twice in the last 2 days,the Secretary of State has fundamentally altered the manner in which Pennsylvania’s election is being conducted. The constantly.../1
...changing guidance she has delivered to counties not only directly contradicts the Election Code language she is sworn to uphold, but also conflicts her own litigation statements and decisions of both the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.
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Jun 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why do people stand with @realDonaldTrump? By Todd Zywicki
“He stood with Kavanaugh when most Republicans would’ve caved. And you wonder why so many of his supporters remain loyal?
And that doesn’t speak at all to the extraordinary accomplishments on judges, regulatory reform,...
historic tax reform, repealing the individual mandate, restoring due process to Title IX, Trying to impose the rule of law on the administrative state, reducing foreign military adventurism, and probably a dozen others that I can’t think of right now...,
a female sales person ... was having difficulty finding a nanny. He yelled loudly at her, in front of a large group of employees,“It’s a f------ baby! All it does is eat and s---! It doesn’t know the difference between you and anyone else! washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
“All you need is some black who doesn’t even have to speak English to rescue it from a burning building!”
Listening to Judiciary Committee hearing on banning “assault weapons” judiciary.house.gov/legislation/he… 1) Claim 1994 AWB lowered mass public shootings is false crimeresearch.org/2018/05/klaver… 2) Horrible stories of bad things happening w/ guns make no more sense then looking at only lives saved
3) “The ability to accept detachable magazines is the most important feature” Magazines are trivially easy to make. Anyone with simple machine tools can make a magazine. They are a box with a spring in them. IAC, this sounds like they want to ban all semi-auto
Jun 18, 2019 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
.@shannonrwatts, if u read More Guns, Less Crime (Univ of Chicago Press, 2010 3rd ed), u would know that the most vulnerable people benefit the most from owning guns: the most likely victims of violent crime (poor blacks) & those weaker physically (women & elderly). #2A@NRA@gun
Gun control advocates are the racists, sexists, & don't want poor owning guns. When you have discretionary permits, gun control advocates give permits to wealthy, white men. Not those who need them. See LA. crimeresearch.org/2017/07/concea…
You want only wealth. thehill.com/blogs/pundits-…
