Clarification.

• Position: To "More Guns, Less Crime," Stanford Law Review, vol. 55, p. 1313, 2003 - Editorial

Some have asked why Florenz Plassmann and John Whitley's paper, Confirming "More Guns, Less Crime," 55 STAN. L. REV. 1313 (2003), appeared in the Review as a joint paper by Florenz Plassmann and John Whitley when it had been circulated on the SSRN as a joint paper by John Lott, Florenz Plassmann, and John Whitley.

Specifically, there has been some confusion over the following passage in Ian Ayres and John J. Donohue III's paper, The Latest Misfires in Support of the "More Guns, Less Crime" Hypothesis, 55 STAN. L. REV. 1371 (2003):

But after seeing this Reply to the original Lott, Plassmann, and Whitley paper, Lott asked the Stanford Law Review to take his name off the work. We hope that this indicates that the arguments in our Reply have caused the primary proponent of the more guns, less crime hypothesis to at least partially amend his views. Id. at 1374. This passage could give the impression that Dr. Lott had asked the Review to take his name off the work because he had lost confidence in the validity of the arguments in the original Lott, Plassmann, and Whitley paper. The Editors believe this impression is mistaken. The Editors take full responsibility for not recognizing the implications of this language, for failing to give a full...