Does more guns mean more violence?
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A lot has to do with a country’s gun culture, and whether gun ownership is seen as a privilege or a right. In America, there is a legal and cultural concept that it’s okay for people to have guns for self-defence, which isn’t really present in other countries. Studies have found a correlation between gun ownership and gun violence, but you have to go deeper than that. Just because a country has a lot of guns, doesn’t mean they’ll have a high death rate – the types of guns prevalent in the country make a difference as well.
RESOURCES
National Firearms Agreement – 2017
https://archive.homeaffairs.gov.au/crime/Documents/2017-national-firearms-agreement.pdf
Small Arms Survey – Estimating global civilian-held firearms numbers
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Papers/SAS-BP-Civilian-Firearms-Numbers.pdf
Global mortality from firearms (1990-2016), IHME, Uni of Washington
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698492
Violent death rates: The US compared with other high-income OECD countries (2010)
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/fulltext
Harvard – The Australian Gun Buyback
https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1264/2012/10/bulletins_australia_spring_2011.pdf
What do we know about the association between firearm legislation and firearm-related injuries – Epidemiologic Reviews
https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/38/1/140/2754868
Pew Research Center – America’s complicated relationship with guns
Bipartisan support for some gun proposals, stark partisan divisions on many others
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why can't my country just have better gun laws the nra are so stupid
She's not an expert. It's a constitutional right to own a gun in America. They gave the Americans that right to fight their government should it ever become tyrannical. The forefathers knew what they were doing.
Shall not be infringed.
I think the massive control and disarmament of a nation was a slight over reaction after Port Arthur, and I only live a few hours away from the historic sight. You got to understand that people have mental illnesses, and them getting their hands on weapons should not define the 99% of others who wish to own a firearm for recreational uses. Port Arthur was pretty much the only massacre in Australian history, at least in modern times. Its not within our nations customs to be that sort of individual. We have more respect for ourselves and in turn more respect with a deadly weapon. You don't see anything bad happen with gun violence in Australia up until Bryant. One, and only one's persons actions, determined the fate of our weapons policy here, and he was rock bottom insane, for practically his whole life. Anyone with half a brain would not have sold him weapons.
Australia has very strict gun laws, its very hard to get a gun license here, you must have very solid reasons for doing so.
We don't have the right to protect ourselves against people such as Mr. Bryant, we have 0 tolerance for self-protection.
Hunting is very strict as well; you need lots of permits and such.
Firearms are not the issue at the end of the day, it's the people that use them that are. But the majority of people that own LEGAL firearms do not use them for anything other than recreational sport shooting, or hunting.
I live in a country where if you have a legitimate interest in weapons, with a scientific and competitive mind, you are seen as a bad person.
I do not agree with this.
Gun control doesn’t work. It doesn’t work in Australia. It doesn’t work anywhere. The absence of mass shootings or school shootings in Australia have nothing to do with gun laws and everything to do with the fact nobody wants to engage in those crimes. Killing over gang territory and the drug trade is a different thing….
I think Australians are the only nation in the western world where they understand human rights in a proper manner
Just ban ammunition, then buy guns from people.
Absolutely terrible journalism. You aren't journalists, you're activists. At no point do you look at the other sides claims. At no point do you acknowledge the bias in your reporting or the sources used. You even acknowledge that it might not work in the US for other factors. Yet, without evidence, you claim it to be true.
You are a disgrace to journalism.
The USA need a ban like now guns are not safe at all
They’re also not taking into account the fact that America is more ethnically mixed while Japan and Australia are fairly homogenized populations. There are lots of groups that don’t entirely get along. You can’t just take their laws and apply them to the United States, and painting the US as barbaric or backwards is incredibly self-righteous and conceited. Please run your own country and stop trying to run ours. Gun ownership is by definition a right here and not a privilege, it’s the law of the land and has been since 1776. Nobody looking at the US actually asks themselves how many lives have been saved by responsible gun owners. Nor do they consider the fact that drunk drivers are more responsible for more deaths per year even though cars were never intended to be weapons.
Thank God for the second amendment. Where I live in West Virginia and take 15 minutes for the cops to get here if they can find my house on the dirt road. You have to be able to protect yourself and your family. Legally.
Very informative. Thank you! Never argue with a fool….
The American people fear Marshall law and distrust our govt too much to ever give up our guns. It won’t happen they can forget about it
so now in these British colonies . . . . only the British government gets to have a monopoly on any type of firearm just so they can hold you at gunpoint. . . . . . pathetic slaves.
Australia did it differently.
After a horrific atrocity at a school, the news published photographs of every child that was killed.
Wounds and all.
A caveat:
Did images of crying infants being separated from their parents or children being held in cages along the U.S. border with Mexico shift the public debate in the United States on Trump’s highly restrictive immigration policies?
Not among Republican voters and certainly not among those in the White House.
They don't care. They don't have to.
Also, the people who use firearms on other people are using an ILLEGAL firearm.
If you can own a vehicle and drivers licence you should be able to own a firearm.
I feel sorry for Australia.
I like guns. I wanna keep mine. They’re fun
Self defence doesn't count as a reason to buy a gun? Jesus. That's oppressive.
See it's the wrong argument everyone talks about Australia has no mass shooting yeah because they have no guns let's talk about European countries that actually have many guns and still no mass shootings I believe that would do more good