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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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Countries like Japan, the UK, and Australia, with strict gun control laws, have significantly lower rates of gun deaths. Gun-related deaths are tragically common. In 2019 alone, more than 250,000 people died as a result of firearms worldwide.
Before 1996, Australia regulated firearms more strictly than the United States but not as strictly as other democracies such as Japan, Canada, and some European countries (Swain, 1996). As in the United States, gun laws varied across the country because gun control was primarily a matter for the states and territories.
10 cze 2022 · Gun ownership and gun homicide rates are high in the United States in comparison to rates in other advanced democracies. Mass shootings in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom...
23 cze 2016 · Here are some of the key findings from the study: Between 1979 and 1996, total firearm deaths in Australia were dropping an average of 3 percent each year. In the 20 years since, they've declined at a rate of 5 percent annually.
This chapter updates the Lemieux et al. (2015) study and adds new data on gun homicides, gun suicides and fatal shootings of police officers. The study also includes greater attention to the different antecedents of gun regulation in the two countries and the role of police.
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.
