By John Lott, Worldwide Expert on Guns & Crime
Would even tougher gun laws have saved lives at Bondi?
Australia already has
highly restrictive gun laws compared to the U.S. Yet, many places in the U.S.
are like Australia. University campuses and many shopping malls, for example,
ban guns. Where the U.S. differs from Australia is that some of those 'gun-free
zones' are near places where members of the public (civilians) are legally
permitted to carry guns. That turns out to make important differences to how
shooting attacks like the one at Bondi turn out. Research by one of us (Crime
Prevention Research Center) found that shooters kill fewer people when an armed
civilian intervenes than when they don't. [more...]
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