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What the U.S. Could Learn from Australia’s Gun Control Laws
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What the U.S. Could Learn from Australia’s Gun Control Laws

Knowledge at Wharton·@HashtagPLUS·about 1 month ago
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The February shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 and wounded many more has drawn overwhelming support for gun control laws across the U.S., including from large U.S. corporations . Those calls grew after Tuesday’s shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., that left five injured and the shooter dead from a self-inflicted gun wound. As advocates of gun rights and gun control voice their respective arguments, one case in point is how Australia managed to enact strong legislation around guns after a 1996 incident in Port Arthur, Tasmania, that left 35 dead and 21 injured. An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle was used in both the Parkland and Australia attacks. Australia’s gun control laws could offer lessons for the U.S., drawing upon the findings of a recent paper by Benjamin Ukert and Elena Andreyeva , post-doctoral researchers at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Penn Injury Science Center at the Perelman School of Medicine.…

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