dr. john r. lott jr., is an economist who held research and teaching positions at the university of chicago, yale university, stanford, ucla, wharton and rice and was the chief economist at the united states sentencing commission. his it's books have included -- his past books have included three decisions of, my favorite, "more guns, less crime," crime and freedomnomics." he is a frequent contributor to foxnews.com, has appeared in such places as "the wall street journal," new york times, los angeles times, new york post, "usa today," chicago tribune. he has appeared in such television rams as abc and nbc national evening news broadcasts, fox news, the "newshour" with jim lehrer and today show. now, ann coulter called him one of america's most feared economiests. economists. and she said you can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as discredited. ask senator ted cruz. but no one is called discredited by liberals more often than the intest is ma

dr. lott's study into her hand. we bring you john lott and his topic again is "making up facts about guns." [applause] >> i greatly appreciate the chance to talk to you all again. there's been a lot going on here. it's kind of fortunate paul earlier played a video when shannon watts was on 0 cnn. and it foreshadowed shft discussion i would be having, amazingly within a minute or two there, you had several claims that were being made there. 40% of guns were obtained with that background check. purchasing would with background checks. claims would you have seen many times over the last year by president obama, it's finally after a long time you would go and have some of the media fact checks point out here you have a survey, tiny survey that is done was two decades ago that done before we had the brady law in effect. and it wasn't just sales. most of that was actually 36% were transfers within family gifts or inheritance. and just the fact somebody would go and just change the terminology from saying, inheritance ing

dr. john r. lottjr., is an economist who held research and teaching positions at the university of chicago, yale university, stanford, ucla, wharton and rice and was the chief economist at the united states sentencing commission. his past books included three editions of my favorite more guns, less crime. freedom economics." lott is contributor and weekly columnist for fox news.com, opinion pieces by lott have appeared in such places as "the wall street journal," "the new york times," "l.a. times," "the new york times," "usa today," chicago tribune. he's appeared in such television programs as abc and nbc nationally evening news broadcast, fox news and "newshour" with jim lehrer and the "today" show. ann coulter called him one of america's most feared economists. and she said, can you tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as discredited. ask senator ted cruz. called discredited by liberals more often than the inestinable economist and author, john

dr. lott's study into her hand. we bring you john lott and his topic again is "making up facts about guns." [applause] >> i greatly appreciate the chance to talk to you all again. there's been a lot going on here. it's kind of fortunate paul earlier played a video when shannon watts was on 0 cnn. and it foreshadowed shft discussion i would be having, amazingly within a minute or two there, you had several claims that were being made there. 40% of guns were obtained with that background check. purchasing would with background checks. claims would you have seen many times over the last year by president obama, it's finally after a long time you would go and have some of the media fact checks point out here you have a survey tiny survey that is done over two decades ago that was done before we had the brady law in effect. and it wasn't just sales. most of that was actually 36% were transfers within family gifts or inheritance. and just the fact somebody would go and just change the terminology from saying, apparent gif