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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (893419)10/13/2015 1:30:34 PM
From: Broken_Clock  Read Replies (1) of 1573039
 
the ban came in 1996.

from your link:

A 2012 AIC report on firearm trafficking referred to a forthcoming study in stating thatn Australia, the number of victims of firearm-perpetrated homicide (ie murder and manslaughter) has declined by half between 1989–90 and 2009–10 from 24 to 12 percent. (Chan & Payne forthcoming).


The predominance of handgun-perpetrated homicide, as a proportion of all firearm homicide, rose from 17 to 45 percent between 1992–93 and 2006–07 (Bricknell 2008b; Dearden & Jones 2008) but dropped again in the following three years to a little over 10 percent.


For the most recent year available (2009–10), handgun homicide comprised 13 percent of all homicides that were committed with a firearm (Chan & Payne forthcoming).[ 78]

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The best that can be said is that there is no conclusive evidence that banning guns lowers the use by criminals of firearms.



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