Gun Control Reform Activism

I was referring to this:

This finding doesn't highlight one specific law, like an assault weapon ban, in isolation. There were "so many different kinds of laws," Santaella-Tenorio explains, that it was hard to make good international comparisons on every specific kind of gun restriction.

Rather, countries passed big packages of gun laws, which overhauled the nation's firearm code fairly broadly, which all tended to share similar features. According to Santaella-Tenorio, they generally included:
Banning "weapons that are actually very powerful," like automatic weapons.
"They all implemented background checks."
"They all required permits and licenses for purchasing guns."

South Africa's comprehensive Firearm Control Act, passed in 2000, contained all these measures. One study found that firearm homicides in five major South African cities decreased by 13.6 percent per year for the next five years. "Reductions in nonfirearm homicides were also observed," Santaella-Tenorio et al. note, "although not as pronounced as the ones observed for firearm homicides."

Austria's 1997 firearm law, similarly, required background checks, limited access to powerful firearms, and imposed rules about how gun owners had to store their guns. Santaella-Tenorio reviewed two studies on Austria's 1997 law, both of which found evidence that the law had reduced deaths. According to one of them, firearm homicides went down by 4.8 percent, while suicides went down by 9.9 percent.

Australia's 1996 National Firearms Agreement (which outright confiscated 650,000 guns, in addition to imposing background checks and licensing rules) is perhaps the best-studied of any of the international laws. Santaella-Tenorio et al. reviewed eight studies on it, most of which found clear and strong evidence of a reduction in firearm deaths after the law's passage.


Which was included in the study. My reference was to the study, and I have read about the countries I referred to and do realize they are at least trying to do something about the problem, we don't seem to be able to find anyone intelligent enough in this country to even be able to address the issue, or to care enough about the issue to address it. Big Difference.

This sounds so familiar, it appears it is the excuse across borders and cultures and, well just watch



And Austria, same problem, citizens wanting to take the law into their own hands



So, just to make a long story short and so that you don't have to do too much reading about what I know, I hope you have an idea of what I think about guns and what I think about the gun game, and last but not least, why I think the study was a good one.