Cliff Stearns: “Mr. Speaker, I have an article from the Washington Times that is dated April 26 that I will make a part of the Record…”

“Mr. Speaker, I have an article from the Washington Times that is dated April 26 that I will make a part of the Record wherein Dr. Lott highlights a number of cases in his article detailing how anti-gun advocates routinely admit facts, figures, and they change statistics to generally develop a misinterpretation of gun ownership in America. Along with Dr. Lott, a Professor Bill Landes from the University of Chicago has done extensive research on waiting periods, sentencing laws, background checks, and other current gun control laws and they compare those with the effect on deterring so-called ``rampage killings.'' As to their conclusions, Mr. Speaker, I will quote directly from their article: ``While higher arrests and conviction rates, longer prison sentences and the death penalty reduce murders generally, neither these measures nor restrictive gun laws had a discernible impact on mass public shootings. We found only one policy that effectively reduces these attacks: The passage of right-to-carry laws.'' Both these professors confirm that law-abiding citizens, possessing a legal right to carry concealed hand guns, had a dramatic impact on multiple victim shootings.”