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Since major gun law reforms were introduced in Australia, mass shootings have not only stopped, but there has also been an accelerating reduction in rates of firearm-related homicide and suicides, a landmark study has found.
It has been two decades since rapid-fire long guns were banned in Australia, including those already in private ownership, and 19 years since the mandatory buyback of prohibited firearms by government at market price was introduced. A handgun buyback program was later introduced, in 2003.
Researchers from the University of Sydney and Macquarie University analysed data on intentional suicide and homicide deaths caused by firearms from the National Injury Surveillance Unit, and intentional firearm death rates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For the period after the 1996 reforms, rates of total homicides and suicides from all causes were also examined to consider whether people may have substituted guns for alternative means.
Source: The Guardian
(Score: 5, Informative) by rigrig on Saturday June 25 2016, @03:06AM
From the actual abstract [jamanetwork.com] (emphasis mine):
"Disclaimer": I'm all for gun control (as it is) in my own country, and truly believe it makes this a safer place to live. The people across the pond should have free access to small arms though, and hopefully enough idiots will manage to kill themselves/other idiots[1] before they can vote to give a Great Idiot[2] access to intercontinental weaponry of mass destruction.
[1] Because all the smart people are able to fully protect themselves with all the guns they own.
[2] I wish I could say I was only talking about one of the candidates :-(
No one remembers the singer.