Changes in gun ownership and firearm deaths in Australia
“Stephen Heyer” writes: When confronted with the fact that “In the last 16 years the number of guns owned in Australia has quadrupled. The number of firearm deaths have dropped by 46% in that period...
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Mark Addinall writes: Tim Lambert writes: I looked in the reference you cite: “How Firearm Crime is Declining” It claims that the number of firearms owned in Australia has increased from about 2.5...
View ArticleGun ownership by state
Ross Wilmoth writes: Thanks for the stats Tim. Do you think that the reduction between the 1975 and 1989 surveys could be due to them being either side of the registration legislation? In 1975 it...
View ArticleAnother misrepresentation from Clayton Cramer
After misrepresenting my views in this statement, I don’t know if you actually found Dr. Lott engaged in a lie or not, but I do know that your irrational desire to see victims disarmed and murdered by...
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Anti-gun? Moi?
Say Uncle suggests that I am “anti-gun” and implies that I “favor more gun control in the US”. I am not “anti-gun”. Here is a picture of me (on left) with a gun. Unless you think that Lott is some...
View ArticleSoon on gun control in Australia
Jason Soon has a series of posts on gun control in Australia here, here and here. I felt that the laws here before 1996 were about right and I do not think that the 1996 laws were a good idea. The...
View ArticleThe bogus stats keep coming
After reviving my first ever online post. I’ve dug up my first ever post on guns. Phil Ronzone posted this to soc.culture.australian: Of even more interest is the TREMENDOUSLY larger per capita rape...
View ArticleOn Gun Control
Matthew Yglesias and Mark Kleiman have both written about the Assault Weapons Ban. I agree with Yglesias that the ban doesn’t make sense since it bans weapons by name rather than by some...
View ArticleNSW Shooters want to send Howard a message
A commenter on my earlier post on John “I hate guns” Howard wondered: “If Latham wins, will the public generally credit this issue?” Some shooters have a plan to try to make it an issue: You Can Send...
View ArticleHoward and Latham on guns
There’s an election coming up in Australia. I haven’t blogged about it because other people are doing a much better job than I ever could. A special plug though, for Tom Vogelgesang, who is running...
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