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Wesker: U.S> homicide rate is 5.67 per 100,000, Australia's is 1.81. Considering Australia doesn't have an open border bleeding criminals into the country, nor does it have the huge urban centers of the U.S. and it is a mostly homogeneous society, as compared to the large and bvaried etnic populations in the U.S., 1.81 is nothing to brag about. lets compare Australia with a U.S. state with similar demographics..Utah..which has a 1.9 homicide rate. Apple and Oranges.
Misinformed. Doesn’t have an open border? I think an unguarded coastline certainly qualifies: the navy is limited in what it can achieve in terms of border protection; refugees arrive on leaky boats, and some people are genuinely afraid of that. A federal election was decided over such issues. Homogenous? Again, not true. The first wave of migrants were the Greek and Italian communities (there were others, but these two are the ones who’ve probably stayed closest to their roots). Then the southeast asian wave: Malaysians, Chinese, and more recently Indians and Vietnamese. I suppose because these make up some of our closet neighbours, it’s not a case of classifying everyone as ‘Chinks’. The most current wave of migrants groups include Persians and other Middle easterners, and the Dinkas and Sudanese from Africa. That’s just MY neighbourhood, one of the conservative ones. It’s probably a given that most are moving to escape oppressive conditions (with the more recent headlines being about the West Papuans who’d had enough of Indonesia).
Anyway, I’m not interested in whether it’s guns that really kill people, or if it’s the people pulling the trigger. However, people who are injured (and not necessarily fatally) in gun related activity still turn up at emergency departments in hospitals. I think it’s something that’s often overlooked, but nonfatal firearm injuries create an enormous public health-care burden in the US. One published study (Cherry, Annest et al; Annals of Emergency Medicine 98) showed that nonfatal firearm injuries treated in hospital emergency departments outnumbered firearm fatalities by 3 to 1. In terms of child morbidity (only cos I’m on a Paediatric rotation), for every 1 child who dies in an unintentional shooting, Sinaur, Annest et al (JAMA 96) estimate 10 children are treated in hospital emergency rooms for non-fatal unintentional gunshot wounds.
Apologies for crappy referencing aside, the implications of firearms (and associated regulation/control etc) are not limited to just mortality and crime statistics. I think it’s safe to assume that a background level of criminal activity exists in all societies, so gun related death and crime will almost always be a feature no matter how restrictive the laws are. However, I’m led to believe that the areas where there could be some benefit to be had in terms of gun control are the non fatal injuries, and subsequent benefits of reallocation of trauma services… although that’s a completely different topic altogether.
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