John R. Lott, will be visiting Hawaii to speak with the federalist society and also with some members of Hawaii Concealed Carry.   

http://www.facebook.com/john.w.willoughby#!/event.php?eid=181622765194054

Time: Tuesday, February 15 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Location:    
The Plaza Club
900 Fort Street Mall
Honolulu, HI


More Info: John R. Lott, Jr. is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the fields of Government and Public Policy. Lott has previously held positions at prestigious colleges such as Yale, Stanford and UCLA. He also served as the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. Lott is also a columnist for Fox News.

We will also be discussing the efforts of the grass roots group Hawaii Concealed Carry & the forming of the Hawaii Defense Foundation, a non-profit organization formed to defend the civil rights of Hawaii's citizens.

Cost is 65 dollars general admission and 35 dollars for students. This is a formal / business setting.

Contact Chris@hawaiiccw.com or 808-722-6847 to RSVP.

RSVP No later than February 12th, 2011. Pre-payment is requested, and can be done by check, cash, or pay-pal.

This event should take place the week of Feb. 14th, 2011.  More information will be forthcoming. I can ensure you it will be posted as soon as I receive it. 


Wikipedia Info on Mr. Lott:

John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park.[1] He has previously held research positions at other academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the non-academic American Enterprise Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA, and his areas of research include econometrics, law and economics, public choice theory, industrial organization, public finance, microeconomics, labor economics, and environmental regulation.

Lott is an author in both academia and in popular culture. He is a frequent writer of opinion editorials, has published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals related to his research areas, and has authored five books, including More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and Freedomnomics.

Outside of academia, Lott is best known for his participation in the gun rights debate, particularly his arguments against restrictions on owning and carrying guns. He is also known for taking conservative positions on a wide range of political issues. (wikipedia)

 We ask you keep your calendars clear and show some  for these guys coming out.
 

Wonder if he will be able to testify before state legislature, IF there are any gun hearings scheduled during the time of his stay.

Wonder if he will be able to testify before state legislature, IF there are any gun hearings scheduled during the time of his stay.

I believe he has testified here in the past, or at least provided written testimony. I remember speaking to him about it once.

On another, related subject, what should we do since we have such a distinguished pro-gun visitor coming into town? Shoould we have some type of event? Lunch/dinner and sell tickets? Maybe do something like that and ask that any profits go toward pro-concealed carry efforts? Ideas?

I would have to talk to Erica about that, shes the one that secured him -- but sounds great to me.  I think we have enough time to market and advertise that.. will send her a fb msg.

I would have to talk to Erica about that, shes the one that secured him -- but sounds great to me.  I think we have enough time to market and advertise that.. will send her a fb msg.

Already did....so far he's scheduled to speak at UH on 15 Feburary, with a couple of other appearances yet to be scheduled. Should leave plenty of time to try and schedule something and market it.......I'd like to but am going to be swamped the next several weeks and we'd need to secure a venue and start marketing the event ASAP to ensure adequate saturation. Especially if any profits are to be realized (if the profits are to be sunk back into the CCW movement...).

I can help advertise it, but I have no idea where we would go. If you can help me with where to go.. I will make sure the "word" gets out.

I can help advertise it, but I have no idea where we would go. If you can help me with where to go.. I will make sure the "word" gets out.

I think this might be another good opportunity for the group to try to come up with some suggestions and solutions....as I said, my plate is pretty full right now and I'll help where I can, but someone else is going to need to step up and take the lead. Maybe a topic for discussion 3 December?

talks are in the works with Mr. Lott.

The current venue would be the plazaclub (www.theplazaclub.com).  That is, if he accepts.

Updated! Mr. Lott is Coming -- please come help us.  This is a very important event as it is raising funds for our legal costs.

Cool! It should be a good event.

What type of help do you need with this, Heavies?  Advertising? 

More advertising, bodies in seats.... this is to help cover some legal costs. i.e., filling fees, depositions etc all take money.

The event will be a nice sit down dinner, and a chance to speak with Mr. Lott in a more personal setting.

I'm not much of an art person, but if someone is willing to draft up a flyer of some sort I can make copies at my work place and canvas a good portion of the UH Manoa campus and maybe other high traffic areas downtown. 

Alright so I put a bunch of flyers around the UH manoa campus a week or two ago, but I've been noticing a lot of them have been pulled down.  I realize UH is not a gun friendly environment, as many of the students as well as many instructors are very anti-gun.  The nice thing is, copies are free from my workplace so there's no out of pocket expense for me.  I'm just a little ticked that someone or a group of people are actively trying to violate our first amendment rights. 

Has anyone on campus even seen any of the flyers? 

lol someone took my flyers down from work to, even though I called to get permission.

Someone had stuck brady campaign posters near my stuff as well.

Well that's to be expected. Dang libs are all for free speech, but only their commie, socialistic agenda speech.