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4 paź 2017 · The new chart covers homicides in Australia from 1996, when the National Firearms Agreement was enacted, through 2013, which is the most recent data available in the annual Australian crime...
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23 cze 2016 · It's been 20 years since Australia rolled out nation-wide gun law reform. And now an analysis of more than four decades of data on violence in the country has come up with a conclusion: it worked. The study found there have been no fatal mass shootings since April 1996 - despite experiencing one every two to three years in the decades leading ...
7 wrz 2021 · The known: Firearm-related violence — self-harm, assaults, accidents, family violence —causes both injury and death, but has not been extensively studied in Australia. The new: During 2002‒2016, the NSW firearm-related injury rate was more than 13 times as high for men as for women.
In the 18 years 1979-1996, the mean annual rate of firearm homicide was 0.57 (95% CI, 0.51-0.63) per 100 000 population. In the 17 years following the announcement of the new gun laws, this rate declined to 0.20 (95% CI, 0.17-0.25) per 100 000 persons.
2 mar 2018 · The Effects of the 1996 National Firearms Agreement in Australia on Suicide, Homicide, and Mass Shootings. By Rajeev Ramchand, Jessica Saunders. Updated April 15, 2021. Summary: Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement (NFA) banned several types of firearms and resulted in the government buying hundreds of thousands of the banned weapons ...
This paper adds to the currently small composition of studies, by comparing the incidence of mass shootings in Australia and the US over a 33 year period (1981– 2013), in relation to the advent (or lack thereof) of strengthened firearm regulations.
12 gru 2021 · Australia’s tight gun control laws have repeatedly been compared to lax laws in the United States, and these comparisons are at times made within the United States following major mass shooting events (for example, Glover, 2017).
