Post by Flash on Apr 24, 2007 23:54:43 GMT -5
Gun Laws save 2,500 lives in Australia / No gun laws kills 15,000 lives in USA PER ANNUM
www.smh.com.au/news/national/gun-laws-credited-as-lifesavers/2007/04/22/1177180487704.html
Less gun crime:
"The most recent reliable figures, for 2002-03, show
there were 0.27 firearm-related homicides per 100,000 Australians -
about one-fifteenth of the US rate."
Less criminals getting their hands on guns: "the Australian Institute
of Criminology reported the rate of gun theft had dropped by 70 per
cent since stricter gun laws were introduced."
More Citizens with legal guns: "In NSW, the number of guns in the
hands of registered owners has risen in the past six years."
Gun-loons are liars: "Jeanine Baker from the Sporting Shooters'
Association of Australia and Samara McPhedran from the Coalition for
Women in Shooting and Hunting, exploited less than a third of the
available annual data and used "very dubious" statistical methodology,
they say."
Read it and weep, gun-loons, gun-nuts, and gun-twits:
"Gun laws credited as lifesavers"
John Garnaut
April 23, 2007
"THE tough gun controls introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have
probably saved about 2500 lives, economists say."
"Debunking a widely reported study to the contrary, their analysis
suggests that removing 600,000 guns from circulation has sharply
reduced suicide and murder rates."
"Andrew Leigh, at the Australian National University, and Christine
Neill of Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University found a sharp,
statistically significant reduction in murder and suicide."
"There were on average 250 fewer firearm deaths per year after the
implementation of the National Firearms Agreement than would have been
expected," they said.
Using deaths data since 1915, the authors estimated gun control had
led to about 35 fewer murders and 247 fewer suicides annually since
1997. They calculate slightly smaller numbers when their statistical
model is restricted to data after 1969.
Their report found no evidence that gun control may have simply caused
a substitution from shooting to other killing methods.
"The fact that overall violent deaths have fallen since 1996 ...
strongly suggests there has not been substantial method substitution,"
the report says.
The authors slam an earlier report in the British Journal of
Criminology that claimed the firearms agreement had no effect on death
rates.
That study, by Jeanine Baker from the Sporting Shooters' Association
of Australia and Samara McPhedran from the Coalition for Women in
Shooting and Hunting, exploited less than a third of the available
annual data and used "very dubious" statistical methodology, they say.
The Federal Government's 1997 National Firearms Agreement allowed the
buyback of semi-automatic rifles, pump-action shotguns and other
firearms. The agreement, which introduced some of the world's toughest
gun laws, was negotiated by the Prime Minister, John Howard, 35 people
were shot at Port Arthur in 1996.
The most recent reliable figures, for 2002-03, show there were 0.27
firearm-related homicides per 100,000 Australians - about one-
fifteenth of the US rate.
"The risk of dying by gunshot halved over the past 10 years," said
Philip Alpers, adjunct associate professor at the University of
Sydney's School of Public Health.
Earlier this month, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported
the rate of gun theft had dropped by 70 per cent since stricter gun
laws were introduced.
In NSW, the number of guns in the hands of registered owners has risen
in the past six years.
NSW Police Firearms Registry figures show that as of April 9, there
were more than 516,000 guns registered in the state.
www.smh.com.au/news/national/gun-laws-credited-as-lifesavers/2007/04/22/1177180487704.html
Less gun crime:
"The most recent reliable figures, for 2002-03, show
there were 0.27 firearm-related homicides per 100,000 Australians -
about one-fifteenth of the US rate."
Less criminals getting their hands on guns: "the Australian Institute
of Criminology reported the rate of gun theft had dropped by 70 per
cent since stricter gun laws were introduced."
More Citizens with legal guns: "In NSW, the number of guns in the
hands of registered owners has risen in the past six years."
Gun-loons are liars: "Jeanine Baker from the Sporting Shooters'
Association of Australia and Samara McPhedran from the Coalition for
Women in Shooting and Hunting, exploited less than a third of the
available annual data and used "very dubious" statistical methodology,
they say."
Read it and weep, gun-loons, gun-nuts, and gun-twits:
"Gun laws credited as lifesavers"
John Garnaut
April 23, 2007
"THE tough gun controls introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have
probably saved about 2500 lives, economists say."
"Debunking a widely reported study to the contrary, their analysis
suggests that removing 600,000 guns from circulation has sharply
reduced suicide and murder rates."
"Andrew Leigh, at the Australian National University, and Christine
Neill of Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University found a sharp,
statistically significant reduction in murder and suicide."
"There were on average 250 fewer firearm deaths per year after the
implementation of the National Firearms Agreement than would have been
expected," they said.
Using deaths data since 1915, the authors estimated gun control had
led to about 35 fewer murders and 247 fewer suicides annually since
1997. They calculate slightly smaller numbers when their statistical
model is restricted to data after 1969.
Their report found no evidence that gun control may have simply caused
a substitution from shooting to other killing methods.
"The fact that overall violent deaths have fallen since 1996 ...
strongly suggests there has not been substantial method substitution,"
the report says.
The authors slam an earlier report in the British Journal of
Criminology that claimed the firearms agreement had no effect on death
rates.
That study, by Jeanine Baker from the Sporting Shooters' Association
of Australia and Samara McPhedran from the Coalition for Women in
Shooting and Hunting, exploited less than a third of the available
annual data and used "very dubious" statistical methodology, they say.
The Federal Government's 1997 National Firearms Agreement allowed the
buyback of semi-automatic rifles, pump-action shotguns and other
firearms. The agreement, which introduced some of the world's toughest
gun laws, was negotiated by the Prime Minister, John Howard, 35 people
were shot at Port Arthur in 1996.
The most recent reliable figures, for 2002-03, show there were 0.27
firearm-related homicides per 100,000 Australians - about one-
fifteenth of the US rate.
"The risk of dying by gunshot halved over the past 10 years," said
Philip Alpers, adjunct associate professor at the University of
Sydney's School of Public Health.
Earlier this month, the Australian Institute of Criminology reported
the rate of gun theft had dropped by 70 per cent since stricter gun
laws were introduced.
In NSW, the number of guns in the hands of registered owners has risen
in the past six years.
NSW Police Firearms Registry figures show that as of April 9, there
were more than 516,000 guns registered in the state.