The fact of the matter is, the NRA is funding people like Lott to make male cattle dung claims and drive propaganda for the use of guns, when there is ridiculous amounts of evidence to the contrary that guns shouldn't be for personal use.
Actually that's a lie. The NRA doesn't fund academic research. And if you read Lott's defamation case, the courts agreed with that fact.
But what IS fact, is that the Obama administration is attempting to use the Center for Disease Control (ridiculously claiming that gun violence is a disease) to fund his own biased research on the issues. And if you don't think that is more biased than Lott receiving a fellowship by the Olin family, then you are blind to your own biases. The FACT is that this is political on both sides.