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Gun control6/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And a meta-analysis of more than 130 studies across 10 nations found strong evidence of the same. Gun-control advocates sought to rekindle the debate following another string of deadly mass shootings in 2015, including the killing of nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and. Research by one of us (Richard) has found that states with stricter gun-control laws have fewer gun deaths. The most significant US gun control bill in nearly 30 years has been signed into law by President Joe Biden. ![]() gun deaths are suicides.) We covered an earlier study that found that states with higher rates of gun ownership had higher rates of teen suicide. After 50 people were killed in attacks on two mosques in New Zealand last month, that country’s prime minister quickly called for bans on semiautomatic guns, assault rifles, and high-capacity magazines, leading many (including Scientific American) to ask, “Why Not U.S.?” But in America, gun control remains largely the province of individual states, where policies vary widely.Ī new study by researchers Michael Siegel, Molly Pahn, Ziming Xuan, Eric Fleegler, and David Hemenway finds conclusive evidence that states with stricter gun-control laws have lower rates of both murders and suicides. When Australia witnessed a mass shooting in 1996, it almost immediately enacted stricter gun-control measures, and saw faster falls in firearm deaths and suicides. He renewed his call to ban assault weapons and high. The last significant federal gun control legislation was passed in 1994, banning the manufacture for civilian use of assault rifles and large capacity magazines - but it expired a decade later. The United States remains an outlier when it comes to gun control. President Joe Biden has vowed to take 'common-sense steps' to crack down on firearms following two mass shootings in the US in less than a week. ![]()
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