Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have “no effect” in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let’s look at the evidence.
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Gun control in Australia is not a black-and-white issue, and it’s time we had a public debate that reflected that fact.
Let’s be realistic about what gun amnesties are, and are not, likely to deliver.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor of Criminology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Queensland
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW
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Research Assistant in Criminology, The University of Queensland