Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence
Gary A. Mauser and Don B. Kates
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 30, No. 2
Spring, 2007
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Abstract: This article examines a broad range of international data that bear on two distinct but interrelated questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important contributing factor in murder and/or suicide, and second, whether the introduction of laws that restrict general access to firearms has been successful in reducing violent crime, homicide or suicide. Our conclusion from the available data is that suicide, murder and violent crime rates are determined by basic social, economic and/or cultural factors with the availability of any particular one of the world?s myriad deadly instrument being irrelevant.