Thread: The Need for Gun Control, Part 328
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Old 03-13-2005, 08:42 PM  
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Originally Posted by Joe Citizen
I read quite a bit about Australia's gun control success and your statement is incorrect.

Firearm homicides and suicides in Australia have both halved in the ten years from 1991-2001.

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi269.pdf
The graph shows handgun deaths stayed the same or went up after "Firearm controls enacted".
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