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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...
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Each year in Australia hundreds of suicides and homicides are committed with firearms and a number of firearm-related accidental deaths occur. • In 1994 a firearm was used in one in four homicides and one in five suicides.
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.
Even though the rates of firearm-related homicides and suicides were declining before gun law reforms, banning rapid-fire weapons, and removal of a substantial number of firearms, it is plausible that reducing the availability of weapons may have been related to the acceleration in the rates of declines for these deaths after gun reform.
The rates per 100 000 of total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides all at least doubled their existing rates of decline after the revised gun laws. Conclusions: Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides.
The rates per 100 000 of total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides all at least doubled their existing rates of decline after the revised gun laws. Conclusions: Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides.
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 ...
