Gun Deaths In Australia. Guns in the US The statistics behind the violence BBC News In April 1996, 35 people were killed in Port Arthur, Tasmania, by a gunman using military-style semi-automatic rifles. In 1994 a firearm was used in one in four homicides and one in five suicides.
How a ConservativeLed Australia Ended Mass Killings The New York Times from www.nytimes.com
In the 20 years since, they've declined at a rate of 5 percent annually The Australian experience of preventing firearm-related deaths is quite different from that of the US, and has influenced gun control debates around the world
How a ConservativeLed Australia Ended Mass Killings The New York Times
Our gun death rate is 12 times lower than the US rate of about 10.6 per 100,000 people. This population epidemiology study uses government statistics to compare the number of mass fatal shootings, firearm deaths, and firearm-related and all-cause homicide and suicides before and after enactment of gun law reforms in Australia in 1996. Our gun death rate is 12 times lower than the US rate of about 10.6 per 100,000 people.
Gunrelated deaths reached record levels in the US in 2021, report says CNN. Our gun death rate is 12 times lower than the US rate of about 10.6 per 100,000 people. "Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides," the authors of that.
Gunrelated deaths reached record levels in the US in 2021, report says CNN. There was also an acceleration in the decline of both gun-related suicides and homicides following the new laws The researchers also looked at the rates of all causes.