You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John Lott, author of the groundbreaking book "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws."
Lott's economic analysis of the effect of concealed carry laws on violent crime is the most thoroughly vetted study in the history of economics, perhaps in the history of the world.
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