ViolenceTo describe the burden, geographic distribution, and outcomes of firearm-related violence in New South Wales during 2002-2016.#Population-based record linkagstudy of people injured by firearms in NSW, 1 January 2002 - 31 December 2016.#Frequency, proportion, and rate of firearm-related ...
The president of the nation’s second largest teachers union this week called for the U.S. to do “what other great democracies” have done regarding gun violence.Referring to American gun violence as an “epidemic,” Randi Weingarten used the recent school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee...
Guns have been described as a “social toxin.” Like other infectious diseases, incidents of gun violence tend to cluster and can spread throughout populations by means of social contagion. While this is most often thought of in the context of homicide, adolescent gun-related suicide can also ...
Checking gun violence in AustraliaIn 1996, following a mass shooting in which 35 people were killed, the Australian government issued an unprecedented ban on certain guns, and confiscated nearly 700,000 weapons. Has this ban made a difference? Seth Doane reports.Mar 13, 2016...
Police have not ruled out gang violence although they say while the crimes do bear some commonalities -- such as the victim and assailant in each instance being known to each other -- there was no clear link as of yet. "I'm not ruling anything out at this point in time," said Michae...
Vietnam and Indochina on the basis of the discredited domino theory – the fear that communism would spread to Australia. In the 21st century, the U.S. restricted its own citizens' freedoms and went to war with Iraq in response to a terrorist attack Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with...
” Analogous historic gun laws, according to the court, need not be “a dead ringer for historical precursors” but must be “analogous enough to pass constitutional muster.” Second, many believe this slavish devotion to history to be deeply flawed. For example, why should law-ma...
Vietnam and Indochina on the basis of the discredited domino theory – the fear that communism would spread to Australia. In the 21st century, the U.S. restricted its own citizens' freedoms and went to war with Iraq in response to a terrorist attack Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with...
The violence prompted the Biden administration to crack down. In 2022, the ATFissueda rule effectively reinterpreting the federal legal definition of the word “firearm” to include most ghost gun kits. To sell the kits, retailers would need to apply for a federal firearms license, serialize the...
First, let's look at the relationship between gun laws and violence in general. It is possible to have a violent society without guns. Prime evidence of that is the former Soviet Union and its successor states such as Russia, which despite stringent gun control laws, posted murder rates from...