Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi...
by hackuser on Thursday October 08, 2015 @05:32PM
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The article I linked to has a section on Australia; here's an excerpt:
Evaluations after the reforms suggest that they saved lives. A study by Andrew Leigh of Australian National University and Christine Neill of Wilfrid Laurier University estimated that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people led to a statistically significant drop in firearm suicides — 74 percent, in fact, with no parallel increase in non-firearm suicides. ...
The results on homicides were a little less clear. Leigh and Neill found that the buyback resulted in a 35 to 50 percent decline in the gun homicide rate, but because of the low number of homicides in Australia normally, this change wasn't statistically significant
I don't have the numbers for Austrialia, but from the same article:
Nearly two-thirds of gun deaths in the US are suicides
If the proportion in Autralia are similar, reducing gun suicides, if not homicides, could save many lives.
Evaluations after the reforms suggest that they saved lives. A study by Andrew Leigh of Australian National University and Christine Neill of Wilfrid Laurier University estimated that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people led to a statistically significant drop in firearm suicides — 74 percent, in fact, with no parallel increase in non-firearm suicides. ...
The results on homicides were a little less clear. Leigh and Neill found that the buyback resulted in a 35 to 50 percent decline in the gun homicide rate, but because of the low number of homicides in Australia normally, this change wasn't statistically significant
I don't have the numbers for Austrialia, but from the same article:
Nearly two-thirds of gun deaths in the US are suicides
If the proportion in Autralia are similar, reducing gun suicides, if not homicides, could save many lives.