United States, World
Homicide, Suicide, Gun Death Much More Likely in Homes with Firearms
Associated Press
30 June 2008
ATLANTA -- The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves. Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, World
Impact of Gun Control Laws is Tough to Determine: Some Say Few Work
New York Times
29 June 2008
Lurking behind the Supreme Court's ruling last week that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms were a series of fascinating, disputed and now in many ways irrelevant questions. Do gun control laws reduce crime? Do they save lives? Is it possible they even cost lives? Justice Stephen G. Breyer, one of the dissenters in the 5-to-4 decision, surveyed a quite substantial body of empirical research on... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Proposal to Enlist Gun Makers to Work Out How to Reduce Shootings
Los Angeles Times, Opinion
29 June 2008
This year, about 12,000 Americans will be shot to death. It's a staggering figure, and even though lawmakers have continued to pass gun-control laws to try to bring the number down, they have not significantly reduced the murder rate. Indeed, for the last decade, guns have steadily remained the cause of about two-thirds of all homicides. Gun manufacturers insist that these deaths are not their fault, preferring to pin the blame... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Guns for Safety? Dream On, Conservative Justices of the Supreme Court
Washington Post
28 June 2008
The Supreme Court has spoken: Thanks to the court's blockbuster 5 to 4 decision Thursday, Washingtonians now have the right to own a gun for self-defense. I leave the law to lawyers, but the public health lesson is crystal clear: The legal ruling that the District's citizens can keep loaded handguns in their homes doesn't mean that they should. In his majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia explicitly endorsed the wisdom of keeping... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama Joins Wide Range of Reaction to American Gun Law Decision
Bloomberg (USA)
26 June 2008
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the Constitution protects individual gun rights, striking down the District of Columbia's handgun ban and raising questions about weapons restrictions elsewhere. The 5-4 ruling resolves a constitutional question that had lurked for two centuries: whether the Second Amendment covers people who aren't affiliated with a state-run militia. "The enshrinement of constitutional... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Sharp Rise in Gun Homicide Among Young US Black Men - New Study
Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
26 June 2008
Gun-related murder among young men has risen sharply in the United States even as the overall homicide rate remained flat, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Between 1999 and 2005, homicide involving firearms increased 31 percent among black men ages 25 to 44 and 12 percent among white men of the same age. The study appears in the Journal of Urban Health. "The... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
More US Preschoolers Shot than Police Officers; US Leads in Gun Death
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), Editorial
15 June 2008
Who dies in greater numbers from firearms, police in the line of duty or preschoolers? The answer -- contained in a searing new report by the Children's Defense Fund -- is surprising and disturbing. In 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, guns killed 69 preschoolers, compared with 53 law enforcement officers. That's just one of the alarming facts in the Washington-based child advocacy group's "Protect... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Gun Group Targets Young Australian Shooters, Uses 'Sexualised Photos'
ABC News, Wide Bay (Bundaberg), Transcript
11 June 2008
David Dowsett: Well, Roland Brown is Chair of the National Coalition for Gun Control, so what does he make of the magazine? Roland, good morning. Roland Brown: Good morning, David, how are you? David Dowsett: Good thanks, Roland, what are your thoughts on this magazine for junior shooters, is it a bit of a concern for you? Roland Brown: It's a concern for me for a couple of reasons. I want to talk about some of... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Report Shows New Increase in Child, Teen Gun Deaths in America
Huffington Post (USA), Blog
9 June 2008
Imagine a bullet fired from a semiautomatic pistol, moving through the night darkness faster than the speed of sound -- more than 1,200 feet per second or four football fields end to end. Now imagine that bullet slamming into the body of a child like a brick through a picture window. Hold that image in your mind as you consider some of the leads of recent news articles of child firearm victims: -Chicago, May 3 -Cortney... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Licensed Shooter Prompts Seattle to Clamp Down on Hidden Handguns
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington)
6 June 2008
Two weeks after a shooting at Seattle's Northwest Folklife Festival, Mayor Greg Nickels reportedly plans to announce restrictions Monday on concealed weapons on city property. Nickels' office declined to offer any details about the executive order. A news conference was scheduled at the Police Department with Nickels, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and state legislators. In a news release, the initiative was described as... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Florida Must Reject Bill to Allow Guns in Restaurants, on Public Transport
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia), Opinion
2 May 2008
In a letter to Gov. Sonny Perdue, Woodstock Mayor Donnie Henriques opposes House Bill 89, which would allow permitted gun holders to take their weapons in public parks, restaurants and on public transit. Here are excerpts: In this legislative session our elected delegates addressed many issues with typical spirit and competency and I am again honored to be associated with the men and women who dedicate their lives to public office.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Corporations Have No Right to Keep Guns Away From the Workplace
Tampa Tribune (Florida), Opinion
25 April 2008
While clowning around with my grandchildren one day, I suddenly shouted, "Look at the sky, it has turned from blue to green." Try as I might, I could never convince them that it was true, because they could see and couldn't be fooled. So it is with Robert Levy's column ("Employers Must Pull The Trigger," Our Opinion, April 22). Levy claims that our right to have firearms locked in our cars in a parking lot is not about... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Australian Gun Control Laws Did, Did Not Reduce Firearm Homicide, Suicide
ABC Radio (Australia) / PM, Transcript
21 April 2008
LISA MILLAR: The former prime minister, John Howard, recently told an American audience that one of his proudest achievements in office was introducing tougher gun laws after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. But a new study by researchers from the University of Sydney claims the previous federal government's gun control laws have done nothing to reduce firearm deaths in Australia. Gun control advocates though, disagree. Michael... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Obama's 9yrs on Board of 'Pro-gun Control' Joyce Foundation Dissected
Politico (Washington, DC)
19 April 2008
Barack Obama's presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn't want to take away their guns. But before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions. The foundation funded legal... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Firearm Violence Debate, Gun Control Draw Crowd to Pittsburgh Campus
Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh)
10 April 2008
Two weeks before he was killed in the Columbine High School shootings, Daniel Mauser asked his father a question that Tom Mauser now considers fundamental to the debate on guns and handgun violence in America: "Dad, did you know there are loopholes in the Brady [Handgun Violence Prevention] Act?" Mr. Mauser repeated that question yesterday at the National Symposium on Handgun Violence at Duquesne University's Power Center.... ( gunpolicy.org )
Pakistan
Punjab Issues Free Firearm Licences, Glock Handguns to Top Civil Servants
Daily Times (Lahore)
4 April 2008
LAHORE -- The Punjab Home Department has issued Non-Prohibited Bore (NPB) gratis licences (free of cost weapon licences) to 60 top bureaucrats from the administrative hierarchy of the province for their self-protection. The Punjab government will import Glock-17s, an Austrian-made handgun that costs between Rs 60,000 and Rs 70,000, to be given to the 60 officers. Of the 60, 15 are administrative and special secretaries... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Guns, Fear, the Constitution, and the Public's Health in America - NEJM
New England Journal of Medicine (USA), 358:14:1421-1424, Opinion
3 April 2008
It is 1992, and schoolmates Yoshihiro Hattori and Webb Haymaker have been invited to a Halloween party. Yoshi, a 16-year-old exchange student and avid dancer, wears a white tuxedo like John Travolta's in Saturday Night Fever. By mistake, they stop at a house up the block from their destination. No one answers the doorbell. Inside are Rodney and Bonnie Peairs. She opens a side door momentarily, sees the boys, and yells to her husband,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Handgun Violence, Public Health, and the Law: America's Situation Today
New England Journal of Medicine (USA) 358:14:1503-1504, Editorial
3 April 2008
Firearms were used to kill 30,143 people in the United States in 2005, the most recent year with complete data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [1] A total of 17,002 of these were suicides, 12,352 homicides, and 789 accidental firearm deaths. Nearly half of these deaths occurred in people under the age of 35. When we consider that there were also nearly 70,000 nonfatal injuries from firearms, we are left with the staggering... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Interpreting the Right to Bear Arms: Gun Control and US Constitutional Law
New England Journal of Medicine (USA) 358:14:1424-1426, Opinion
3 April 2008
On March 18, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller, a case challenging handgun-control statutes adopted in 1976 in Washington, D.C. The question before the Court is whether the District's prohibition of further registration of handguns, its ban on the carrying of concealed guns, and its mandate that guns kept in homes remain unloaded and either locked or disassembled violate citizens' rights... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Toxic, Ground-up Hunters' Lead Found, Eaten in Minnesota Donated Venison
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St Paul)
28 March 2008
Minnesota food shelves will halt distribution of venison donated by hunters after lead particles were discovered in ground venison at North Dakota food shelves. Authorities urged that any donated meat that had already left the food shelves not be eaten. The Minnesota venison will be tested for lead fragments. Hunters donated about 78,000 pounds of venison last fall, the first year of the statewide program paid... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Supreme Court Gun Case - Extracts from Various Friends-of-court Briefs
US News & World Report
7 March 2008
Dozens of organizations have weighed in on both sides of District of Columbia. V. Heller, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that will consider whether the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms. Not surprisingly, the case has drawn a great number and variety of voices. The amicus, or friend-of-court, briefs have exposed some odd bedfellows, along with internal divisions among government branches. Some former... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Can US Cities Ban Guns, Curb Trafficking? Supreme Court Set to Weigh In
Virginian-Pilot (Virginia)
2 March 2008
The Second Amendment question could be settled this spring -- right in our backyard. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that stems from Washington, D.C.'s long-running ban on handguns -- the strictest gun policy in the nation. Oral arguments are scheduled for March 18, with a ruling expected by the end of June. As much as the Second Amendment has been debated, it has rarely been litigated. When lower courts have... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
America's Troubling Culture of Gun Violence 'Aberration In Civilized World'
Marin Independent Journal (California), Editorial
24 February 2008
Fatal shootings have become so commonplace that it takes something truly horrific to get national attention. Even then, after the outrage subsides, little is done about a level of carnage that is an aberration in the civilized world. And even as we try to make sense of the latest wave of senseless killings, the body count keeps piling up. - A disgruntled resident opened fire at Kirkwood City Hall in Missouri. Charles... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Tackling Youth Gun Violence and the Scars It Leaves in Washington, DC
Washington Post
11 February 2008
When activist Kenneth Barnes gives speeches decrying gun violence, he typically asks audience members to raise their hands if a family member or friend has been a victim. The response is usually about 5 percent of his adult crowds. But when he speaks to Prince George's County and District students, most raise their hands. In recent months, Barnes's nonprofit organization completed a more formal three-year survey of youths that not... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Newly Enacted US Federal Gun Law Targets People With Mental Illness
Psychiatric News (USA)
1 February 2008
Some psychiatrists fear that the law will further stigmatize people with mental illness and divert attention away from the need for a broader law that would result in a real reduction of gun-related violence. Supporters of a new gun-control law claim it might have prevented the deaths of 32 people last year in a massacre at Virginia Tech carried out by a student who was mentally ill. Some psychiatrists, however, say the law falls... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Control Group Praises Massachusetts' Comprehensive Gun Laws
Metro West Daily News (Massachusetts)
1 February 2008
A national gun control group praised Massachusetts yesterday for having some of the strongest laws in the nation to prevent easy access to firearms. According to the Washington, D.C.-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Massachusetts placed third on the group's list of states with strong gun regulations, behind California and New Jersey. Massachusetts shared third place with Connecticut, according to the group. John... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Shooting Victims Urge Supreme Court to Support Sensible Gun Control
Albany Times-Union (New York), Opinion
22 January 2008
The 19 friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the District of Columbia's U.S. Supreme Court bid to uphold its handgun ban might look like the "usual suspects." The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Network to End Domestic Violence, police chiefs, criminal justice professors, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association. Most of the amici (in legal lingo) on the... ( gunpolicy.org )
New Zealand
New Zealanders' Growing Interest in Guns and Shooting 'Healthy,' Say Police
Dominion Post (Wellington)
16 January 2008
More New Zealanders are arming themselves with firearms licences for sport, recreation and pest control, showing what police believe is a healthy attitude toward gun use. Police figures issued to The Dominion Post under the Official Information Act show that about 16,000 people got firearms licences for the first time in the past two years -- up from 5320 in 2002. Police national manager of firearms licensing and vetting... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Many US Gun Ranges Threatened by Suburbs, Noise, Lead Pollution Laws
New York Times
13 January 2008
FAIRFIELD, New Jersey -- Down a winding, tree-lined road near the banks of the Passaic River, trap shooters blast away outdoors at the New Jersey Clay Target Club, making it hard for David Acosta, who lives in a nearby house, to sleep in on weekends. "It can be bothersome," he said. "They start pretty early." Mr. Acosta, 28, has lived in the house since 1994 with his mother, Gladys Masterson, 49, who said she did not know... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Key Factors in US Murder Trends: Youth, Drugs, Gangs and Gun Trafficking
Christian Science Monitor
4 January 2008
NEW YORK -- Murders are down to a 40-year low in New York and Chicago. Yet homicide rates are on the rise in Baltimore and Detroit -- and dramatically so in New Orleans. In that variance is a positive story about cities' successful attack on crime and gun violence, but also an alarm about rising gang-related and youth violence, particularly within the African-American community. Across the US, the incidence of intentional... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Maryland Must Take Action on Rogue Gun Dealers, Gun Sales to Criminals
Baltimore Sun (Maryland), Opinion
30 December 2007
Homicides increased in Baltimore and in many other parts of the state during 2007. Appropriately, Baltimore officials have made getting illegal guns off the streets a priority, and the city Police Department's Gun Task Force has been recovering guns from criminals and investigating people suspected of supplying guns to criminals. But these new efforts to hold gun traffickers accountable for supplying criminals with guns are being... ( gunpolicy.org )
India
Indian Doctors Pressure Police to Allow Hidden Handguns in Hospitals
Siasat Daily (Hyderabad)
17 December 2007
HYDERABAD -- Armed with over 300 applications seeking gun licenses, junior doctors on Sunday met Additional Commissioner of Police N. V. Surendra Babu at the police commissioner's office here. After submitting the applications, the junior doctors informed that they had little faith in the system and they needed weapons for their protection in the wake of the increasing number of attacks on them. "He promised us to deal... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
America's Republican Politicians Pander to People of the Gun
Chicago Sun-Times, Column
3 December 2007
The gun carnage in America may soon overtake the maelstrom in Iraq. Every day, pop, pop, pop, and another victim is condemned to the nightmarish plague of handguns gone wild: Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor, 24, is shot to death in a home invasion. Amadou Cisse, 28, a Senegalese chemistry doctoral student at the University of Chicago, is gunned down near Hyde Park. On the Southwest Side, Howard Long, a 22-year-old security guard at... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
San Francisco Gun Buyback Reaps Plaudits, Assault Weapons for Furnace
Associated Press
2 December 2007
Armed citizens packing everything from an AK-47 assault rifle to a couple of sawed-off shotguns and enough antique pistols to set a collector's heart racing massed across the street from San Francisco's City Hall on Saturday -- but pulling triggers was the furthest thing from anybody's mind. They came to dump the weapons so these firearms could be forever kept from falling into the hands of criminals. Or from killing someone during... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Kingdom
Carry a Gun and You'll Either Shoot, or Get Shot - London Trauma Surgeon
BBC News
12 November 2007
Mike Walsh is a consultant who heads up one of the country's top trauma teams, based at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. He has dealt with dozens of gun crime injuries. "It is not for me to judge if they are a 'goodie' or a 'baddie'," he said. He is the consummate professional who avoids making judgements when a patient comes in, and gets on with the job of trying to save a life. Because it is the home of London's... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Kingdom
UK Police Want Doctors to Break Patient Confidentiality Over Gun Wounds
Guardian (UK)
29 October 2007
Police chiefs want doctors to break medical confidentiality and report patients they treat who have suffered knife or gun shot wounds, the Guardian has learned. The proposals are set to be handed to ministers by police chiefs as part of an intensified new response to tackling youth gang and gun crime. The proposals have caused concern among doctors and civil rights activists, who argue that confidentiality is the cornerstone... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Kingdom, World
Social Exclusion of Young Men is Key to Reducing Gun Crime: UK Study
MedIndia / British Medical Journal (BMJ), Media release
25 October 2007
Reducing social exclusion and deprivation and increasing the protection of children may be more effective at tackling gun crime than focusing on gun control alone, say experts in this week's BMJ. The headlines about gun crime and violent crime in the United Kingdom are tragic and alarming, and anxiety about the danger of guns is understandably high, write forensic psychotherapist, Gwen Adshead and colleagues. Yet the statistics... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Philadelphia Gun Violence Epidemic 'Has to Be Treated as a Disease'
ABC Radio (Australia) / AM, Transcript
22 October 2007
TONY EASTLEY: In the United States there were almost 15,000 murders last year and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) says guns were used in three-quarters of the killings. Yet in some states like Pennsylvania, getting a gun is almost as easy as ordering a pizza. In the state's largest city, Philadelphia, hundreds of people are being shot dead each year and police have no real idea of how many weapons there are out... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
NY Mayor Receives Harvard Award for Gun Control, Public Health Efforts
Newsday (New York) / AP
21 October 2007
NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg was named the recipient of an award from the Harvard School of Public Health for his administration's efforts to improve the health of New Yorkers, the school announced Sunday. Bloomberg will receive the 2007 Julius B. Richmond Award, the school's highest honor, Oct. 29 at a private ceremony and lecture at Harvard. The Bloomberg administration has mounted successful campaigns to improve... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
240 US Mayors Fight Gun Trafficking: Jersey City Benefits From Gun Control
ABC News (USA)
11 October 2007
Last year, 10,177 people in the United States were killed by firearms, mostly in cities and urban areas. The burden of gun violence has largely fallen to the big-city mayors, some of whom are taking steps to keep illegal firearms from entering their borders. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City and Mayor Jerramiah Healy of Jersey City are among those who have moved most aggressively to combat gun trafficking even though their... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
The Reason Shooters Choose US Schools: Students, Staff Don't Have Guns
National Review (USA), Opinion
11 October 2007
Wednesday's shooting at yet another school has a better outcome than most in recent memory. No one died at Cleveland's Success Tech Academy except the perpetrator. The two students and two teachers he shot are in stable condition at Cleveland hospitals. What is depressingly similar to the mass murders at Virginia Tech and Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania and too many others was the killer's choice of venue -- that steadfastly gun-free... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Maryland Police Have Quietly Started Checking Mental Health of Gun Buyers
Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
19 September 2007
The Maryland State Police are requiring people who want to buy firearms to sign a release allowing authorities to check whether they have ever resided in a state mental health institution for 30 days or more. In the wake of the Virginia Tech killings this year, Gov. Martin O'Malley and state Health Secretary John M. Colmers gave their blessing to the state police to broaden the firearms application -- an effort, officials said,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Police Chiefs Blast Gun Show Loophole, Urge Public Health Approach
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington)
19 September 2007
The International Association of Chiefs of Police issued a report Wednesday that calls for stronger gun laws and urges law enforcement agencies to better educate the public about gun violence and to form more partnerships with public health officials in preventing firearms-related deaths. The organization, which includes police executives from around the country, made 39 recommendations in the report, intended as a guide in countering... ( gunpolicy.org )
World
Proliferation of Firearms, Gun Violence is Growing Global Health Problem
British Medical Journal (BMJ)
8 September 2007
GENEVA -- The growing number of civilians holding firearms is fuelling gun crime worldwide and is putting healthcare systems, especially in poor countries, under stress, an expert report says. Gun crime kills about 250 000 people a year and injures many more. "The proliferation of civilian gun arsenals is not likely to slow anytime in the foreseeable future," says the report. The study was conducted under the auspices of... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Kingdom
Imported US Gun and Street Culture Blamed for Youth Shootings in Britain
Guardian (UK) / AP
23 August 2007
LIVERPOOL, England -- It is a tragedy becoming too familiar for a country where gun crime is still relatively uncommon and where limits on gun ownership are strict -- an 11-year-old boy shot to death, allegedly by a hooded teenager on a BMX bicycle. Rhys Jones, a cherubic-faced boy who liked playing tag and video games, was in a pub's parking lot kicking a soccer ball around with friends Wednesday when two youths rode by and fired... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Dayton, Ohio Reports Surge in Serious Airgun Injuries Among Children
Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio)
22 August 2007
When discussions turn to gun control, they usually involve weapons that are supposed to pack a deadly punch. But as a children's hospital in the Dayton area has learned during the summer, BB guns placed in the hands of young children can sometimes create dangerous situations as well. Children's Medical Center of Dayton has treated five children in the past month for BB gun injuries -- nearly half the total annual BB or... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Philadelphia Hospital Targets At-risk Youth, Shows Kids Real Gun Carnage
ABC News (USA)
14 August 2007
PHILADELPHIA -- Just before 1 a.m. on a recent night in the city, an ambulance rushed a man to Temple University Hospital's trauma ward. As paramedics rolled him in through the sliding emergency room doors, he screams, "I've been shot... He shot me, man!" Medics quickly let doctors and nurses know the man's vital signs and confirm the patient's diagnosis: "Single gunshot wound." Trauma surgeons and nurses race to save the... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Firearms in Australia: a Parliamentary Library Guide to Electronic Resources
Parliamentary Library, Federal Parliament of Australia, Web Page
6 August 2007
Introduction On 28 April 1996, 35 people were killed and 18 others were wounded at Port Arthur in Tasmania by an assailant using a semi-automatic rifle. In response, The Australasian Police Ministers' Council convened a special meeting on 10 May 1996 and agreed to a national plan for the regulation of firearms -- the Nationwide Agreement on Firearms. This agreement banned self-loading rifles and self-loading and pump-action shotguns,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada
Canadian Gun Control Laws Followed By 70% Drop in Teen Gun Deaths
Toronto Star (Ontario)
27 July 2007
Canadian teens are safer now than in the 1980s, according to a new national study in the Journal of Adolescent Health this month. Most parents would say this contradicts the headlines and sound bites this summer about Toronto's tragic mix of teens and gun violence and high-speed crashes. According to researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada, teens may be safer today because of prevention programs that aim for safer... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Pennsylvania Gathering Hears 'Simple Truth: More Guns, More Homicides'
Philadelphia Daily News (Pennsylvania)
23 July 2007
The observations may seem obvious but haven't altered the status quo: There are simply too many guns out on city streets -- and the damage the weapons cause has ruined families and neighborhoods. The homicide-by-gun crisis -- police blame bullets for about 87 percent of this year's 224 slayings -- was linked to one common-sense concept yesterday at a University of Pennsylvania seminar. Gun density. "Any population... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Lobby 'Fear Mongering,' Siding with Thugs in Weapon Trafficking
Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City), Editorial
17 July 2007
It's one of the oldest debates in the book -- public health and safety versus personal freedom. Smokers and non-smokers went the rounds over that issue, as have people concerned about the Patriot Act. Now the National Rifle Association is reading from the same books. This debate comes down to how much information is too much information for the government. If law enforcement officials can curb violent acts against innocent... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Melbourne Shooting Prompts Calls for Illegal Gun Crackdown in Australia
ABC News (Australia) / 7.30 Report, Transcript
4 July 2007
ALI MOORE: Last month, Melbourne's CBD came to a chilling standstill when a triple shooting claimed the life of a father of three and injured two others. The violent act has ignited calls by the anti-gun lobby to push for tougher laws to deal with handguns. While police have confirmed a handgun was used, they won't give details of the brand or whether it had a serial number. But that hasn't stopped a growing debate over the illegal gun trade... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Australian Shooting Clubs Defend Their Use of Semi-automatic Handguns
ABC TV News (Australia) / Lateline, Transcript
22 June 2007
The shooting in Melbourne this week has renewed calls to ban semiautomatic hand guns from Australian sporting shooters clubs. ELEANOR HALL: The man killed in this week's shooting in Melbourne today received a hero's farewell at his funeral. Brendan Keilar was shot dead with a handgun as he tried to rescue a woman who was being attacked on a busy city street. The murder has renewed calls to ban semiautomatic weapons... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Estimated 20,000 Handguns Still Available on Australian Black Market
Sydney Morning Herald
18 June 2007
Despite the crackdown on handguns prompted by earlier massacres, an estimated 20,000 are held illegally in Australia. Also, more than half the perpetrators of multiple gun killings were licensed gun owners, said Philip Alpers, a gun-control researcher at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health. He said there was no easy solution to stop handgun killings, given blackmarket supplies to criminals and the potential... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Mexico
Feds Say They Can't Stop US Gun Show Patrons Smuggling Arms to Mexico
Arizona Republic
16 June 2007
MEXICO CITY -- Federal authorities do not have enough agents to regularly patrol gun shows, a major source for U.S. weapons used in Mexico's drug wars, a top official said Thursday during a visit to the Mexican capital. Mexican officials have complained about how easy it is to buy firearms from private, unlicensed sellers at such shows. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vowed last week to crack down on such gun-running.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
California Arms Trade Fed by Gun Shows in Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Florida
San Francisco Chronicle / AP
12 June 2007
SACRAMENTO -- Californians are buying guns illegally at out-of-state gun shows where weapons laws are more lax, then bringing them back to the state, a researcher concluded. The findings by Dr. Garen Wintemute of University of California Davis Medical Center bolster the suspicions of law enforcement officials, who believe many of the guns used in local crimes originated at shows in states such as Nevada and Arizona, where gun laws... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Out-of-state Gun Shows Fuel Illegal Weapon Pipeline to California - Study
Sacramento Bee (California)
12 June 2007
A leading Sacramento researcher on gun violence is pushing to ban "private party" sales at gun shows after documenting that several troublesome transactions in other states are behind an apparent pipeline of guns used in crimes in California. The findings by Dr. Garen Wintemute of UC Davis Medical Center, scheduled to be published today in Injury Prevention, an international health journal, bolster recent suspicions among law enforcement... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Nationwide Survey Shows Many US Families Careless With Gun Storage
Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City) / Bloomberg
5 June 2007
Two-thirds of gun-owning families fail to store their firearms safely, posing a potential risk to children at home, according to a pediatric study that questioned parents on the topic when they brought children in for well-child doctor visits. Locking up all guns lessens the odds of firearm accidents or suicides among children, according to a team led by pediatric researcher Robert DuRant of the Wake Forest University School of... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Gun Violence Epidemic in Illinois - Support New Gun Controls
Herald News (Illinois), Opinion
25 May 2007
Last month at Virginia Tech University, Seung-Hui Cho, a college student with a history of mental illness, shot and killed 32 people, and himself, using semi-automatic handguns equipped with one or more large-capacity magazines. As a nation, and as families and individuals, we struggle to understand how tragedies like this can happen. It's time we also ask how tragedies like this can be prevented. High-profile incidents like what... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada, United States
Gun Control Laws Help Reduce Impulsive Youth Suicide in North America
Halifax Herald (Nova Scotia), Opinion
10 May 2007
National Mental Health Week (May 7-13) is an opportunity for Canadians to look at some of the ways they can improve their mental health by achieving a balance between the social, physical, spiritual, economic, and mental aspects of life. It also provides an opportunity for us to remind ourselves that mental health issues affect each of us and that we need to engage our communities in a variety of actions that will promote mental... ( gunpolicy.org )
Papua New Guinea
Government Fails to Stop Illegal Guns in Papua New Guinea
Post-Courier (Port Moresby), Editorial
1 May 2007
In May 2004, this newspaper raised grave concerns about the increasing presence of illegal guns in Papua New Guinea and their effects on the lives of the people. The issue attracted so much public debate and calls were made on the Government to take action to reverse the trend. The Government, through the then Minister for Internal Security Bire Kimisopa acknowledged the seriousness of the problem. It pledged to do address it with... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
America the Only Industrialised Nation Unwilling to Deal With Gun Violence
Huffington Post (USA), Blog
30 April 2007
It's an unbelievably sad commentary that high-profile shootings occur frequently enough that we know the National Rifle Association's rote four-step crisis management response. One. Don't talk to the press. You don't want the NRA's name associated in the public's mind with mass shootings and the inevitable carnage that results from our nation's lax gun policies. You want to make sure that the last thing anyone associates... ( gunpolicy.org )
World
Immediate Reduction in Gun Availability is a World Public Health Priority
The Lancet, Editorial
30 April 2007
The blood had not yet dried in the lecture rooms of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, before polarised camps claimed that the slaughter of 32 students and teachers vindicated their particular stance on gun control. So shrill was the debate about whether the tragedy would have been better prevented by reducing firearms through stronger gun laws or by increasing availability through liberalising right-to-carry legislation, that the more... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada
Lax Gun Laws, Scared Politicians Make Gun Violence Part of American Life
MacLeans (Canada)
30 April 2007
Bright and early this past Easter Monday, a 38-year-old accountant walked into a Troy, Mich., office with a pump-action shotgun, killed the 63-year-old receptionist and left two of his former bosses lying in pools of blood. The man had been fired on Thursday, and purchased the gun and ammunition on Good Friday. On March 27, a backyard poker game in Lake Worth, Fla., ended when one of the participants drew a gun instead of a straight, slaying... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Only Lunatics Believe More Guns in More US Homes is Good for Children
New York Times, Column
26 April 2007
Two days after the massacre at Virginia Tech, a mentally disturbed man with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun opened fire in a house in Queens, killing his mother, his mother's disabled companion and the disabled man's health care aide. The gunman then killed himself. Sixteen months ago, in the basement of a private home in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, four aspiring rappers, aged 19 to 22, were summarily executed in a barrage... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia, World
Australia's New Gun Laws Saved up to 2,500 Lives Since 1997 - New Study
Sydney Morning Herald
23 April 2007
The tough gun controls introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have probably saved about 2500 lives, economists say. Debunking a widely reported study to the contrary, their analysis suggests that removing 600,000 guns from circulation has sharply reduced suicide and murder rates. Andrew Leigh, at the Australian National University, and Christine Neill of Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University found a sharp, statistically... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
American Gun Violence: When Liberty Turns Lethal
Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania), Editorial
22 April 2007
"We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility." British author Cyril Connolly wrote those words in 1938. The harsh week just ended gives them fresh relevance -- and offers a starting point for a national conversation on the role of responsibility in a society that prizes liberty and individualism. Cho Seung-Hui, 23, exploited those aspects... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
US Gun Culture Back in Spotlight: Do We Need More or Fewer Firearms?
Denver Post (Colorado)
22 April 2007
Across Denver, it was a week of painful memories and unanswered questions about America's gun culture. Parents and teachers solemnly observed the eighth anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. All week, television was dominated by the face of Seung-Hui Cho, the young man who killed 32 people and himself on the Virginia Tech campus. As Russell and Jayme Elsevier settled in for a quiet break at an Aurora mall,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Availability of Guns Raises Suicide Rates in America, Study Finds
New York Times
17 April 2007
People who live in communities with a lot of guns are more likely to kill themselves, a new study says. The findings, the researchers say, add weight to the argument that when people have less access to guns, they are less likely to commit suicide. Earlier research raised the question of whether people intent on suicide would simply switch to another equally lethal method if unable to find a gun. In the new report, in the... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia, United States
Tight Laws Helped Australia Avoid US 'Gun Culture,' Says PM John Howard
Agence France Presse
17 April 2007
SYDNEY -- Prime Minister John Howard, responding to a deadly rampage at a US university, said Tuesday that strict controls after one of the world's worst massacres by a lone gunman had helped Australia avoid a US-style "gun culture." Howard ordered tougher controls after Martin Bryant killed 35 people in a shooting spree through Port Arthur in Tasmania in 1996. "We had a terrible incident at Port Arthur," he said. "But... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Police, Leaders, Advocates Gather for US Midwest Summit on Gun Violence
Munster Times (Indiana) / Medill News Service
11 April 2007
On an average day in the U.S. more than 250 people are shot, and in an average year 30,000 die from firearm violence, according to statistics. They are victims of domestic violence, bystanders in the crossfire of gang warfare and police officers killed in the line of duty. Law enforcement leaders from across the Midwest gathered Tuesday to tackle the problem. Nearly 200 chiefs of police, attorneys general, professors,... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Americans Less Likely to Die by Gunshot If No Gun in Home, Says Study
Southwest Nebrask News
10 April 2007
BOSTON, Massachusetts -- In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of suicide in the U.S., researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that suicide rates among children, women and men of all ages are higher in states where more households have guns. The study appears in the April 2007 issue of The Journal of Trauma.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
New Harvard Study Finds Guns at Home Equal Higher Suicide Risk
Reuters
10 April 2007
WASHINGTON -- Suicide rates among people of all ages are higher in states where more homes have guns, US researchers reported on Tuesday. Twice as many people committed suicide in the 15 states with the highest levels of household gun ownership, compared with the six states with the lowest levels, even though the population in all the states was about the same, the researchers found. "We found that where there are more... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Suicides Likelier in US Homes With Guns, Says New Harvard Study
Washington Post / Health Day News
10 April 2007
The presence of guns in homes is strongly associated with higher suicide rates, a new U.S. study found. Harvard School of Public Health researchers analyzed national data and found that states with higher rates of households with guns had significantly higher rates of suicide by men, women and children. In the 15 states with the highest rates of household gun ownership, twice as many people committed suicide than in the six states... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
'Where There Are More Guns, There Are More Suicides' - Harvard Study
Bloomberg
10 April 2007
Suicide, the third-leading cause of death among Americans 15 to 24 years old, is more common in U.S. states with higher rates of gun ownership, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. Twice as many people committed suicide from 2000 to 2002 in the 15 states with the highest rates of gun ownership, compared with the six states where guns are least common, according to the study published in the April issue... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Cincinnati Public Health Docs Try New Ways to Stop Youth Gun Violence
Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio)
9 April 2007
CINCINNATI -- Dr. Victor Garcia's aim is starkly simple: Stop young men from shooting each other. The trauma chief and pediatric surgeon at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has pleaded since the mid-1990s to reverse the rising numbers of young gunshot victims. Now, with the Cincinnati City Council's unanimous approval, he gets his chance, as board chairman of a counteroffensive against street violence that's... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Duelling US Statistics Make it Hard to Prove That Gun Control Saves Lives
Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania)
9 April 2007
WASHINGTON -- Shortly before 3 a.m. last Monday, 41-year-old Vincent White of Temple Hills, Md., was shot multiple times and killed on a street in the southeast section of Washington. It was the District of Columbia's 40th homicide of the year. Three weeks earlier, a federal appeals court ruled the district's 30-year ban on keeping handguns in homes was unconstitutional because it violates the Second Amendment. There was... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
NRA's Mischievous 'Take Your Gun to Work' Law is 'Dangerous Fantasy'
New York Times, Editorial
30 March 2007
The aura of invincibility that has legislatures bowing before the gun lobby is running into a commendable challenge from corporate America. Two conservative powerhouses -- gun fanciers and business leaders -- are facing off in statehouses over the gun lobby's attempt to stop employers from exercising their property rights and barring workers from carrying firearms to work. Bills to deny this common-sense right to workplace safety... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Washington, DC Gun Control Ruling Affirms the US Confederacy
Treasure Coast Newspapers / Scripps (Florida), Opinion
28 March 2007
Earlier this month, in the case of Parker v. District of Columbia, a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia broke with all other federal circuits by holding that a gun-control statute violated the Second Amendment. In a split decision, the court found that the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and a companion law that requires that legally owned firearms be stored disassembled could not... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Kingdom, World
Physicians Push Medical Publisher to Abandon Gun Fairs, US SHOT Show
Associated Press
23 March 2007
LONDON -- Physicians from around the world urged the publisher of The Lancet medical journal to cut its links to weapons sales, calling on the editors to find another publisher if Reed Elsevier refused to stop hosting arms fairs. The doctors made their appeal in the latest edition of The Lancet, released Friday. Editors at The Lancet responded by backing the doctors, calling the situation "bizarre and untenable." They wrote in Friday's... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Illinois Gun Control Coalition Pushes Ban on Assault Weapons, .50cal Rifles
Lake County News-Sun, Column
22 March 2007
The national wild Turkey Federation put out an alert recently on new gun laws being proposed for Illinois. And this week, the initiative went public. Called the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, it is a project of Legal Community Against Violence that started in California. It is a coalition of law enforcement (Gurnee Police Chief Robert Jones and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart), the medical and public health... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Kingdom, United States
US Gun Lobby Figures on Britain 'Based on Leaky Flotilla of Half Truths'
Guardian Unlimited (UK), Blog
23 February 2007
The recent spate of shootings in Manchester and London may have shocked Brits, but they came as no surprise to many on this side of the Atlantic. The NRA (rallying cry: "Outlaw guns and you arm the outlaws") and its allies have long known that British society, with its draconian gun control laws and even -- heaven forfend! -- a handgun ban, was a ticking bomb. "The English approach has not reduced violent crime," notes Joyce Lee... ( gunpolicy.org )
Solomon Islands, Australia, Taiwan
Guns for the Palace Guard in Solomon Islands: Australia Has Some Worries
Austral Policy Forum, Nautilus Institute, Opinion
8 February 2007
If ever there was a signal likely to invite suspicion of budding despotism, surely it's the leader of a penurious island nation racing to form a 'Close Personal Protection Unit' of armed guards for his own use. Although Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare may yet provide evidence of a convincing need, his attempt to fly a hand-picked team of 50 for weapon training in Taiwan was seen in Honiara and elsewhere as the sign of a... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
High Levels of US Gun Ownership Linked to Higher Homicide Rates - Study
New York Times
23 January 2007
States with the greatest number of guns in the home also have the highest rates of homicide, a new study finds. The study, in the February issue of Social Science and Medicine, looked at gun ownership in all 50 states and then compared the results with the number of people killed over a three-year period. The research, the authors said, "suggests that household firearms are a direct and an indirect source of firearms used... ( gunpolicy.org )
New Zealand
NZ Govt Budgets $10,000 pa to Pay Gun Owners for Confiscated Firearms
Dominion Post (Wellington)
23 January 2007
Taxpayers have paid nearly $12,000 in compensation to people no longer 'fit and proper' to own guns in the past five years. The Crown compensated gun owners for weapons seized after their licence was revoked. Police can also seize guns from a licensed dealer, and these too would be compensated. No compensation is paid when illegal weapons are seized. Gun control campaigner Philip Alpers, an adjunct associate public... ( gunpolicy.org )
Yemen
The Epidemic of Gun Violence in Yemen
Attieg Am Horn, Blog
21 January 2007
Why are multi-sectoral gunshot reduction interventions needed? The 2003 Small Arms Survey reported that Yemen has one of the most armed societies in the world. There were varying figures for the exact numbers of firearms owned by Yemeni citizens, but unofficial estimates suggested that there are almost 7 million weapons circulation in the country, which according to the latest census in March 2004 has a population of 19.7 million.... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
American States With More Guns Have More Murders, Finds Harvard Study
Reuters
11 January 2007
WASHINGTON -- American states where more people own guns have higher murder rates, including murders of children, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health reported on Thursday. The study, certain to provoke arguments in a country where gun ownership is an important political issue, found that about one in three U.S. households reported firearm ownership. "Our findings suggest that in the United States, household... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, World
'Private Guns, Public Health' - Paul Helmke Reviews David Hemenway
Huffington Post (USA), Book review
10 January 2007
Over the holidays I had the opportunity to read David Hemenway's excellent book "Private Guns, Public Health," published by the University of Michigan Press in 2004. After I started as President of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence six months ago, this book was recommended highly as one of the best summaries of the issue of gun violence in the United States. After meeting with Dr. Hemenway at his office at the Harvard School... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, United Nations
NRA Fundraiser Pushes Paranoid Gun Fantasies, Racial Fears [Part 1 of 2]
National Rifle Association of America, Pamphlet
29 December 2006
Second Amendment freedom today stands naked in the path of a marching axis of adversaries far darker and more dangerous than gun owners have ever known. Acting alone and in shadowy coalitions, these enemies of freedom are preparing for a profound and foreboding confrontation in which they will not make the mistakes of their predecessors. We'd better be ready. The Coming Confrontation Materials elsewhere document... ( gunpolicy.org )
New Zealand
NZ Police Officer Ran Personal Campaign to Discredit Gun Control Advocate
New Zealand Herald
16 December 2006
Gun control researcher Philip Alpers has accused the police officer in charge of firearms licensing of bias over a series of emails questioning his credentials. Inspector Joe Green has written to two universities where Mr Alpers has held posts, questioning the former TV journalist's roles. Mr Green has also written to Mr Alpers warning him he could be charged if he continued to use the title Harvard fellow. Mr... ( gunpolicy.org )
New Zealand, Australia
Staunch Under Fire: Gun Control Advocate 'Replaced Ignorance With Light'
New Zealand Herald
16 December 2006
When they start screaming about what you're doing, you're on the right path, says tobacco researcher and Sydney University professor Simon Chapman. He should know. For years, he has fought cigarette companies, and in the past couple of years he has observed at close range another researcher facing an equally powerful lobby. Chapman works with Philip Alpers, the former New Zealand TV journalist who now works internationally in the... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Australian Gun Buyback Did Not Affect Homicide Rates, Say Gun Lobbyists
West Australian (Perth), Letter
15 December 2006
As authors of Gun Laws and Sudden Death: Did the Australian Firearms Legislation of 1996 Make a Difference (British Journal of Criminology, October 2006), we welcome the latest in a line of studies demonstrating that the 1996 buyback did not impact on firearm homicide. Simon Chapman, former convenor of an anti-gun lobby group, and Philip Alpers, long-time gun prohibitionist, used different statistics to arrive at virtually identical... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Australian Gun Buyback Cut Gun Suicides, Massacres, Total Gun Deaths
Agence France Presse
14 December 2006
The Federal Government's weapons buyback scheme has dramatically ended gun massacres and sharply reduced the number of overall firearms deaths, a study has found. The initiative was launched in 1996 within days of the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania by gunman Martin Bryant, who used semi-automatic weapons during his killing spree. Under the new law, the Government banned semi-automatics and pump-action rifles and shotguns... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Australian Gun Law Eliminates Mass Shootings, Study Finds
Bloomberg (USA)
14 December 2006
Gun-control measures that Australia adopted after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre have eliminated mass killings and halved the number of suicides and deaths from firearms, according to a new study. There have been no mass killings since the passage of the first measure just after the massacre, researchers led by Simon Chapman at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney said in the study, published in the December issue... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
Decline in Gun Deaths Doubled Since Australia Destroyed 700,000 Firearms
Scoop / University of Sydney, Media release
14 December 2006
The risk of dying by gunshot in Australia has dropped twice as fast since the 1996 Port Arthur gun buyback, says a new study published today in the international research journal, Injury Prevention. "Not only were Australia's post-Port Arthur gun laws followed by a decade in which the crime they were designed to reduce hasn't happened again, but we also saw a life-saving bonus: the decline in overall gun deaths accelerated to twice... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia
PM Hails Gun Control Laws 10 Years On - Australia Now a Safer Society
Office of the Prime Minister of Australia, Media release
14 December 2006
CANBERRA -- Australia's success in reducing access to firearms is a far reaching achievement in producing a safer society. A study released today says that the total number of gun deaths fell from 521 in 1996 to 289 in 2003. The study by Professors Simon Chapman and Philip Alpers and colleagues from the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney has found that the Government's 1996 gun law reforms were followed... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Philadelphia Task Force Tries to Jam Gun Trafficking, Lower Gun Death Toll
Philadelphia Daily News (Pennsylvania), Editorial
24 November 2006
People whose crime-fighting knowledge comes from episodes of "Law and Order" or "C.S.I" form a simple view of violence: There are good guys, and there are bad guys with guns. In real life, why and how those guys with guns get that way is not easy to explain, because it's usually a hodge-podge of things: an unstable upbringing, poor relationships, unfinished schooling, maybe some psychological issues. But leave these unaddressed,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Canada
Firearm Registry 'Indispensable Tool' for Public Health in Canada [Francais]
Le Soleil (Quebec), Opinion
23 November 2006
[Translated summary: The Canadian firearm registry is 'absolutely essential' to prevent access to guns by dangerous people. Excessive relaince instead on tougher penalties for crime is a strategy known to fail]. Il y a quelques jours, l'une des victimes de la fusillade du Collège Dawson a publiquement demandé au premier ministre de maintenir le registre fédéral des armes à feu. Le ministre de la Sécurité publique, Stockwell... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States
Guns Can Be Made Safer, and Wisconsin Lawmakers Should Insist on It
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin), Editorial
19 November 2006
Steve Hargarten, a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and an emergency room physician, doesn't claim to be an expert on handguns. But he knows enough from years of treating gunshot wounds and directing the college's Injury Research Center that handguns can easily be made safer. The problem, says Hargarten and others who study handgun violence, is that gun-makers generally feel no pressure to do so because firearms --... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Africa
China Vows to Help Africa Combat Global Gun Trade, Fund & Train Experts
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China, Web Page
16 November 2006
I. Preamble 1.1 On 3-5 November 2006, the Beijing Summit and the Third Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) were held in Beijing. Heads of state, government and delegation as well as ministers of foreign affairs and ministers in charge of economic cooperation from China and 48 African countries (hereinafter referred to as "the two sides") attended the Summit and Ministerial Conference respectively.... ( gunpolicy.org )
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