>> >>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.
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