Gun Control: A Survey of the Police.

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Kasz216 said:

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Kasz216 said:

 

Guns bans successful in lowering both gun homicide and gun suicide rates in Australia:

http://andrewleigh.org/pdf/GunBuyback_media.pdf

"their findings discount a previous study in the British Journal of Criminology in 2006, which found the buyback had no impact on either gun homicide or suicide rates."

"models used in that study [the ones that found no reduction] were not appropriate and results were  inconsistent."

Have you read the actual study or are you just supporting it because it fits in view with what you want to believe?

I noted you quoted the press release instead of the study.

Why it's often discounted?

They use gun buyback rate per capita in each state... without controlling for number of guns in each state.  

As opposed to gun buyback rate as a percentage of gun ownership.

Reduced gun homicides and suicides followed the introduction of semi-auto control, while non-firearm homicide remained stable for the same period.

But this is going nowhere. We'll each google studies that support our side, and argue round in  circles, and neither of us will change our opinion.

I'm glad I live in a country where guns are controlled, and I assume you're happy to live in one where they're not.