AlwaysRight on 11 November 2013
| curl-6 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." |
Meanwhile assault has gone up every year that the assault weapons ban and more strict gun policies has been in effect (1997)
http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/violent%20crime.html
