Despite evidence of strict gun control measures reducing the frequency and severity of mass shootings in countries like Australia, citizens in the United States remain deeply divided over the issue. According to a survey about the expected impact of gun laws on the number of mass shootings, a sl...
that constant social clashes over elementary gun control have become a facet of “American exceptionalism,” the notion that the United States is an “exception” to international standards,Footnote 2 especially compared to other Western democracies: European nations, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand...
Nations with the strongest handgun control laws are; Australia, Great Britain, Japan, Canada and Sweden. Each has less than one hundred murders by handgun per year. Here in America, which has the weakest handgun controls, we have about ten thousand handgun murders a year. That’s one hundred...
Gun laws in Thailand are relatively restrictive, but the country nonetheless has one of the highest levels of gun ownership in Asia, according to GunPolicy.org, a research project at Australia’s University of Sydney. There are about 10 guns per 100 people in Thailand when including those...
per square mile (a high value for modern hunter-gatherers), then the whole area of the Americas would eventually have held about 10 million hunter-gatherers. But even if the initial colonists had consisted of only 100 people and their numbers had increased at a rate of only 1.1 percent per...
Perhaps we will now hear calls for Nail Gun control? Or, perhaps people will apply reason, and recognize that criminals will commit crimes using whatever tools they have, regardless of the the laws against committing the crime orhaving the gun?
Over the past 10-15 years, although the overall use of firearms in violent crime has declined, handguns have increasingly become the firearm of choice in both Australia and other English-speaking countries. Handguns are often used as a m... S Bricknell - 《Australian Institute of Criminology...
Police across the country killed an average of more than three people a day, or nearly 100 people every month last year according toMapping Police Violence. In 2021, policekilled 1,145 people; 1,152 in 2020; 1,097 in 2019; 1,140 in 2018; and 1,089 in 2017. ...
“After the United States, Canada is one of the largest owners of private guns in the developed world,” Canada’sNational Postreports. “There’s about 31 guns for every 100 people, putting Canada in 12th place worldwide — and only three guns short of the rate of firearm ownership in ...
1889. The exhibition celebrated 100 years of European settlement in Australia and was seen as a chance for patriotic celebration and nation building. It was a turning point for Melbourne, marking its entry onto the global stage and attracting over two million visitors, more than double the city...