An Important 2nd Amendment Debate.

Last week my two friends, John Lott and Sandy Levinson, engaged in a debate about the 2nd Amendment which was basically a debate about guns and crime. You can watch the debate held at the University of Wisconsin here.

Lott, of course, is known as the foremost promoter of the idea that as more Americans walk around carrying their guns, the more that serious crime will be reduced. His book, More Guns, Less Crime has been a best-seller and basic Gun-nut Nation text for years.

Levinson is one of our foremost Constitutional scholars who authored an article in 1989 which challenged liberals to grant the 2nd Amendment’s protection for private gun ownership the same degree of deference as they give the 1st Amendment’s protection of free speech.

John Lott basically represents the conservative reaction against government gun control, Sandy Levinson represents the liberal desire to keep government in the picture when it comes to controlling guns.

There’s only one, little problem with the perspectives of both of these highly-qualified, intelligent, and honest men — neither of them knows anything at all about guns. And this lack of concrete knowledge about the item whose use creates 125,000 deaths and serious injuries every year and probably costs us somewhere around $560 billion in lost wages, medical treatments and…