OMG not the damn Aussies again.
No need to contact Leigh. He is being economical with the truth cherry picking and ignoring what does not suit his agenda. You contact him and tell him to respond to Lotts claims sending you a copy. Let's see what you get.
Can the clueless clowns of gun control not contact each other to let others know they are riding a dead horse?
Report to the Parliament of Australia on “The ability of Australian law enforcement authorities to eliminate gun-related
violence in the community”
John R. Lott, Jr.
President
Crime Prevention Research Center
212 Lafayette Ave
Swarthmore, PA 19081
United States
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Submitted August 15th, 2014
The impact of Australia’s gun buyback in 1996-97 is a lot less obvious that most might think. The buyback resulted in more than 1 million firearms being handed in and destroyed, reducing gun ownership from 3.2 to 2.2 million guns. But since then there has been a steady increase in the number of privately owned guns. By 2010, the total number of privately owned guns was back to the level in 1996. While Australia’s population grew by 19 percent between 1997 and 2010, the total number of guns soared by 45 percent. If gun control advocates are correct, gun crimes or suicides should have plunged in 1997 but gradually increased after that.
But that is not the pattern that we observe.
The pattern from firearm suicides can be seen in Figure A.2 While it is true that firearm suicides did fall after the buyback, they was falling for an entire decade prior to the buyback. Indeed the rate of firearm suicides was falling at about the same rate after the buyback as they were before hand. After the buyback, there was no sudden drop and then an increase.
But it isn’t just firearm suicides that fell after the buyback -- non-firearm suicides fell by virtually the same about as firearm suicides.
Firearm homicides only fell EIGHT (8) years after the buy back why is that? Why is this fact not mentioned in this so called study?
http://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Report-on-gun-related-suicides-and-crime-for-the-Australian-Parliament-Rev.pdf
FACT is no study can be shown to validate gun controls claims, not one. There is a simple reason you have conveniently neglected to address. There is no causal relationship between levels of firearm ownership and crime. If there was gun control would have it blazoned across the sky in 1 mile high burning letters.