April 22nd, 2008
Shot Down: gun law study shows no effect:
In a new peer-reviewed study, Dr Samara McPhedran from the School of Psychology, and her colleague Dr Jeanine Baker, who also hold executive positions in the International Coalition for Women in Shooting and Hunting, show that the accumulated studies on Australia’s 1996 gun bans and half billion dollar ‘buyback’ do not point to an impact.
The authors say that this provides a clearer foundation for evidence based policy development, particularly within the area of suicide prevention.
Whoops.
