Stricter gun control laws may make mass shootings slightly less common, but other policies may work better to prevent mass shooting deaths.
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Research is the foundation for evidence-based policies. But because of funding prohibitions, there's little US research to inform the contentious debate around gun violence and gun control.
Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have "no effect" in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let's look at the evidence.
Horrific mass shootings in the US typically renew the national debate about gun policy. A gun researcher explains the lack of funding for study in this area and what that means for informed policy.
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University
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Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research; Adjunct Professor, School of Social Science, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University
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Kinder Institute Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia
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PhD Student, Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs. Graduate Fellow, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia
