The report by the National Research Council is biased. Lott called it a couple of years ago when it was formed in the last months of the Clinton adminstration.
Its stacked with pro banners/anti freedom people.

10 degrees, hmm. We're having something of a cold snap, too. Tomorrow I believe the high will be in the mid-50s and we'll have some wind. Maybe I'll wear a coat. :-)

Are the tree's popping yet?

As pretty as the summer is in Vermont, I have always like the bitter cold days the best . . . . especially if there is fresh snow on the ground. The quality of the air always struck me as special on those days. If I were you, I'd get out of the house, get on some XC skis and warm yourself up the old fashioned way . . . . and then come back home to sit down in front of the fire with a nice steaming mug of hot chocolate.

But, of course, thats just what I would do.

Of course Lott says the report is biased. Bellesiles said that the Emory report that led to him quitting was biased -- do you think we should dismiss that report because Bellesiles didn't like it?

As I heard it, the data is pretty negligible nationwide, except in the case of Florida, which has shown a statistically significant decrease in violent felonies since the CCW reform of 1987. (This data, I believe, comes from the state, not from Lott's research.)

I think we need to work to kill this issue of more research (put it in the deep freeze, heh). They just want to justify taking away rights. We don't need that. Let's spend the money on something else.

I used to live in Chicago. The year I left, we set a record for the most number of days in a row, that the high temperature never got above -10. (It was 10 days or 2 weeks of pure hell) Then it warmed up to about 25 and we got 30 inches of snow in 2 days. I left. (When the high is -10, that happens at about 3 PM. It is more like -20 when you are on your way to work.)