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Some [[liberals]] have attempted to find flaws in Lott's work.<ref>Ian Ayres, John J. Donohue III: [http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/Ayres_Donohue_comment.pdf The Latest Misfires in Support of the ''More Guns, Less Crime'' Hypothesis]</ref>
 
Some [[liberals]] have attempted to find flaws in Lott's work.<ref>Ian Ayres, John J. Donohue III: [http://islandia.law.yale.edu/ayers/Ayres_Donohue_comment.pdf The Latest Misfires in Support of the ''More Guns, Less Crime'' Hypothesis]</ref>
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Lott has responded to claims that guns result in tragic accidents, even against children, as follows:<ref>John Lott, Jr. More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (1998).</ref>
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:Children 14 to 15 years of age are 14.5 times more likely to die from automobile accidents, 5 times more likely to die from fire or drowning, and 3 times more likely to die even from bicycle accidents than they are to die from gun accidents.  In 1991, for example, only 145 children between the ages of 1 and 14 years died of accidental gunshot wounds, while 310 children died from choking (suffocation), 1,075 children died from fire and burns, 1,104 drowned, and 3,271 died from car crashes.  Firearm accident rates in the United States (including those for children) have been declining steadily since the turn of the century, particularly after 1975.
    
One professor, Michael Bellesiles, wrote a book supportive of the [[gun control]] position that was entitled Arming America, The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000). Gary Wills praised it in The New York Times, but admitted later that "I was took. The book is a fraud."<ref>Jonah Goldberg, [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_501644.html ''Reports of the 2nd Amendment's death have been greatly exaggerated ...''] Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Apr. 8, 2007.</ref>  Bellesiles resigned from his position as Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta when an independent committee of scholars examined his work and concluded that "his scholarly integrity is seriously in question."<ref>History News Network: [http://hnn.us/articles/1069.html Summary of the Emory Report on Michael Bellesiles]</ref>
 
One professor, Michael Bellesiles, wrote a book supportive of the [[gun control]] position that was entitled Arming America, The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000). Gary Wills praised it in The New York Times, but admitted later that "I was took. The book is a fraud."<ref>Jonah Goldberg, [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_501644.html ''Reports of the 2nd Amendment's death have been greatly exaggerated ...''] Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Apr. 8, 2007.</ref>  Bellesiles resigned from his position as Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta when an independent committee of scholars examined his work and concluded that "his scholarly integrity is seriously in question."<ref>History News Network: [http://hnn.us/articles/1069.html Summary of the Emory Report on Michael Bellesiles]</ref>
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