[inaudible conversation] soon agree with the people here . Im a volunteer here. [inaudible conversation] twomac i guess were having a few technical problems here but hopefully they will be taken care of soon. I hope you all who i am, my name is john lott, i am president Crime Prevention research center. Ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the commission, ive had positions that in a variety of different universities Like University of chicago, stanford, yale. Im going to talk to you a little bit about some of the misimpression that people have about guns and crime. Normally im a very empirical guy. I would go and show you lots of graphs and stuff. Im a little bit stymied on that be given the technical issue we have here. But theres still a lot of issues we can go to talk about. Just off of the top of my head, a couple of the claims that we frequently hear about, one is that background checks. They go and stop about 3. 5 dangerous people from prohibiting guns. Everyb
Take you back live now to the conference on intelligence and National Security being held just outside of washington, d. C. This is a discussion about emerging and live coverage on cspan2. The intelligence champions council, emerging professionals and Intelligence Committee will be hosting the happy hour this evening. Year over year the senior most leaders in our community see summit as form to share strategic insight and critical partners, this has been no exception. We had allstar lineup to close out the program, to get us started please welcome to the state ken, Senior Vice President and general manager of perspective Intelligence Group, he will introduce our moderator. Ken, over to you. [applause] thank you. As suzanne mentioned im ken and im the Senior Vice President , general manager for the Intelligence Group at perspecta. We have been working with the Intelligence Community for almost 50 years and we are proud to be partnering afce at this years intel summit. Honored to introdu
Crime Prevention Research center. Ive been an academic most of my life. Chief economist at the commission, ive had positions that in a variety of different universities Like University of chicago, stanford, yale. Im going to talk to you a little bit about some of the misimpression that people have about guns and crime. Normally im a very empirical guy. I would go and show you lots of graphs and stuff. Im a little bit stymied on that be given the technical issue we have here. But theres still a lot of issues we can go to talk about. Just off of the top of my head, a couple of the claims that we frequently hear about, one is that background checks. They go and stop about 3. 5 dangerous people from prohibiting guns. Everybody wants to try and stop criminals are the people who might be dangerous from being able to going get a loaded gun. The problem is that the claims that are made, simply arent correct. Rather than saying 3. 5 Million People have been stopped from buying guns, with they s
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