Gun-Death Hoax Faked the Facts, Which the Media Echoed

Gun-Death Hoax Faked the Facts, Which the Media Echoed
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John R. Lott Jr.
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I recently drove 950 miles to give the keynote commencement address at an online high school based in Las Vegas. Two thousand students were supposedly going to attend, but it turned out that the school didn’t exist.

John R. Lott Jr.
John R. Lott Jr.
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John R. Lott Jr. is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of “Gun Control Myths” (2020), “Dumbing Down the Courts,” and “Freedomnomics.”
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