After public mass shootings, there's always these calls to do something, do something, do something,

but what if what we do doesn't stop the next shooting? I want to have on this week's episode

just a data-driven conversation. We're going to remove the emotion. We're just going to get

into the numbers, get into the facts. And I've gotten another than Dr. John Lott for this episode.

He runs and started the Crime Prevention Research Center before he got into a lot of the gun research.

He started his academic journey at UCLA where he got his bachelor's degree in economics.

He went on to get both his masters and PhD from there as well. He worked as an economist

at the University of Maryland, Yale Law School, the University of Stanford, Texas A&M,

Wharton Business School, all these different places, right? So he starts at a place

really from digging in the numbers. That's what he loves. That's what he does. He had also worked

as a chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. So we're going to get into all of this

stuff with him. What would actually prevent the next public mass shooting? What's the profile

of a mass shooter? Why did these keep happening? Are they happening more since Columbine or

is the media just covering them more? So I've got a lot of questions for Dr. John Lott. We're also

going to get into the latest proposal from Congress. This bipartisan proposal, things like red flag

laws. Do they allow for due process? So I've got a whole host of questions for him. Dr. John Lott,

he knows the data, he knows the research, and he's going to give it to us on this show.

Dr. Lott, I'm really looking forward to having this conversation because after mass shootings,

there's always these calls. We have to do something. We have to do something. But what if that do

something doesn't stop the next mass shooting? So I really want to just have a data-driven

conversation, not an emotional conversation, but a data-driven one with you. And I know that's

what you do at the Crime Prevention Center. So I appreciate you joining the show. Sure. No, thanks

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