Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence

Kates, Don B.; Mauser, Gary A.

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“…It has been suggested during parliamentary hearings, for instance, that increased legislation around the private ownership of firearms may have benefits for reducing violence against women, through a combination of controlling access, increasing penalties for inappropriate use of firearms, and reducing overall levels of legal firearms ownership (Senior, 2010). However, it has also been argued that restricting a particular method of enacting violence does not address the causal factors underlying violence, that method substitution may occur, and that levels of legal firearms ownership are unrelated to levels of domestic homicide (Kates & Mauser, 2007;Kovandzic, Schaffer, & Kleck, 2005;Mauser, 2007).…”

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Lethal Firearm-Related Violence Against Canadian Women: Did Tightening Gun Laws Have an Impact on Women’s Health and Safety?

McPhedran

Mauser

2013

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Domestic violence remains a significant public health issue around the world, and policy makers continually strive to implement effective legislative frameworks to reduce lethal violence against women. This article examines whether the 1995 Firearms Act (Bill C-68) had a significant impact on female firearm homicide victimization rates in Canada. Time series of gender-disaggregated data from 1974 to 2009 were examined. Two different analytic approaches were used: the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modelling and the Zivot-Andrews (ZA) structural breakpoint tests. There was little evidence to suggest that increased firearms legislation in Canada had a significant impact on preexisting trends in lethal firearm violence against women. These results do not support the view that increasing firearms legislation is associated with a reduced incidence of firearm-related female domestic homicide victimization.

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Lethal Firearm-Related Violence Against Canadian Women: Did Tightening Gun Laws Have an Impact on Women’s Health and Safety?

McPhedran

Mauser

2013

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“…Selon certains, l'AAF n'est qu'un moyen parmi d'autres pour commettre l'homicide. Ainsi, en augmentant le contrôle des AAF, on pourrait observer une baisse des homicides par AAF, mais qui serait compensée par une hausse des homicides par d'autres méthodes (Kleck, 1997 ;Kates et Mauser, 2007 1) Loi C-68. Il s'agit d'une variable dichotomique (0,1) qui permet de détecter les effets immédiats et permanents (changement dans la constante de la série).…”

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L’effet de la Loi C-68 sur les homicides au Québec : une analyse des bornes extrêmes

Linteau

Blais

2013

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Depuis la fin des années 1970, trois lois canadiennes en matière de contrôle des armes à feu ont été promulguées, soit les Lois C-51 (1977), C-17 (1991) et C-68 (1995). Faute de preuves scientifiques crédibles, la capacité de ces lois à prévenir les homicides par arme à feu demeure incertaine. Tout en surmontant les biais potentiels des évaluations antérieures, l’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer l’effet de la Loi C-68 sur les homicides au Québec entre 1974 et 2006. D’après les résultats de notre analyse des bornes extrêmes, la Loi C-68 est associée à une baisse graduelle des homicides par arme à feu, et ce, sans produire de déplacement tactique. Cette baisse graduelle s’observe toutefois exclusivement auprès des homicides par armes à feu sans restriction (carabines et fusils de chasse). D’autres études sont nécessaires afin de documenter l’effet spécifique du permis d’acquisition et de possession d’armes à feu, de même que l’effet spécifique du Registre canadien des armes à feu, sur les homicides.

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“…Weapons can improve one's sense of personal security and in some cases can permit self-defense that foils an attempted attack. Some studies in the United States find that increased gun ownership leads to reductions in crime due to deterrence and increased self-defense ability, but this may not be generalizable internationally (see Kates and Mauser 2007). In South Africa, while weapons are occasionally employed in self-defense, the effect of weapon possession by ‗ordinary citizens' appears anecdotally to contribute to increasing, rather than decreasing, violence.…”

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Weapons, Violence and the Perpetrator-Victim Nexus in South Africa

Thaler

2011

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Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International Evidence

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

Lethal Firearm-Related Violence Against Canadian Women: Did Tightening Gun Laws Have an Impact on Women’s Health and Safety?

Lethal Firearm-Related Violence Against Canadian Women: Did Tightening Gun Laws Have an Impact on Women’s Health and Safety?

L’effet de la Loi C-68 sur les homicides au Québec : une analyse des bornes extrêmes

Weapons, Violence and the Perpetrator-Victim Nexus in South Africa

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