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Your chart is gun deaths per 100,000 but the other chart posted was total gun deaths in Australia, so that's not a fair comparison. Here's the gun deaths per 1

Your chart is gun deaths per 100,000 but the other chart posted was total gun deaths in Australia, so that's not a fair comparison. Here's the gun deaths per 100,000 for Australia: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_all_gun_deaths_per_100_000_people http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_al.... You can see from the chart that both the US and Australia show a significant drop in the 1990s. The US levels off by 2000, but Australia keeps dropping through about 2005. It's entirely possible that the further drop could be due to Australia's 1996 gun law.

microcolonel 9y ago
> It's entirely possible that the further drop could be due to Australia's 1996 gun law. Since the trendline is basically the same until it tapers off around 2003, it's hard to say; but since the trend is identical (and identically noisy) before and after 1996, it is unlikely it had any effect. You would expect an increase in the trend if it did. Especially when you compare this to the identical trend in the U.S.[0] and Canada[1] at the time, it's hard to make a case that any effect was experienced. Homicide in western countries just sorta trended downward since the mid '80s until the early 0ughts. See: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_gun_homicide http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_gu... Or more importantly, see: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_homicide_any_method http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_ho... [0]: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/194/rate_of_homicide_any_method http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/194/rate_of_h... [1]: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/31/rate_of_homicide_any_method http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/31/rate_of_ho...

microcolonel 9y ago

> It's entirely possible that the further drop could be due to Australia's 1996 gun law. Since the trendline is basically the same until it tapers off around 2003, it's hard to say; but since the trend is identical (and identically noisy) before and after 1996, it is unlikely it had any effect. You would expect an increase in the trend if it did. Especially when you compare this to the identical trend in the U.S.[0] and Canada[1] at the time, it's hard to make a case that any effect was experienced. Homicide in western countries just sorta trended downward since the mid '80s until the early 0ughts. See: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_gun_homicide http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_gu... Or more importantly, see: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_homicide_any_method http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/10/rate_of_ho... [0]: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/194/rate_of_homicide_any_method http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/194/rate_of_h... [1]: http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/31/rate_of_homicide_any_method http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/compareyears/31/rate_of_ho...