Here’s a link to the LA Times article.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-australia-gun-law-deaths-20180926-story.html#
The article quotes a study in the American Journal of Public Health written by Stuart Gilmore and some other folk working in Tokyo Japan.
The article points out that all the reductions in homicides and suicides in Australia might NOT be due to the Australian “National Firearms Agreement (NFA)”.
The Australian NFA banned the possession of automatic and semiautomatic firearms in all but “exceptional circumstances” and resulted in about 700,000 guns being turned in to the authorities.
While an acknowledgment that the Australian gun control program might NOT be the “silver bullet” that would solve America’s “gun violence problem” is a welcome breath of fresh air if you read to the bottom the article the authors of the study concludes that the US would need even MORE gun control than the Australian NFA.
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-australia-gun-law-deaths-20180926-story.html#
The article quotes a study in the American Journal of Public Health written by Stuart Gilmore and some other folk working in Tokyo Japan.
The article points out that all the reductions in homicides and suicides in Australia might NOT be due to the Australian “National Firearms Agreement (NFA)”.
The Australian NFA banned the possession of automatic and semiautomatic firearms in all but “exceptional circumstances” and resulted in about 700,000 guns being turned in to the authorities.
While an acknowledgment that the Australian gun control program might NOT be the “silver bullet” that would solve America’s “gun violence problem” is a welcome breath of fresh air if you read to the bottom the article the authors of the study concludes that the US would need even MORE gun control than the Australian NFA.
“It is imperative that this political moment … not be squandered on a law that will have limited impact,” they wrote. “To achieve real, sustained reductions in the majority of causes of firearm-related mortality, the United States needs a broader, more comprehensive range of gun control measures than those in the NFA.”