And Lott's own subtitle (which you snipped from your reply): "D.C. gun laws have increased crime" surely makes it clear what he meant.
This thread has dragged on for so long that I've forgotten its genesis. Is this not about an article that appeared in a newspaper. If that is true, Lott probably had nothing to do with either the title or subtitle--some headline writer did. My experience is that authors have little or no control of the headlines that appear over their articles. Ron Moore
