@article{ref1,
title="Australia's 1996 gun law reforms halted mass shootings for 22 years: A response to criticism from Gary Kleck",
journal="Contemporary readings in law and social justice",
year="2018",
author="Chapman, S. and Alpers, P.",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="94-103",
abstract="We reply to criticisms made by prominent anti-gun control researcher Gary Kleck of our widely reported 2016 study on the impact of Australia's historic 1996 gun law reforms on mass shootings and firearm-related deaths. Thirteen mass fatal shootings in 18 years were followed by 22 years with no such incidents, with the probability of this being a chance occurrence calculated at 1:200,000 against. We concentrate on Kleck's efforts to repudiate our conclusions by redefining mass shootings; his argument that mass shooters do not maximise the lethal potential of their semi-automatic weapons and so could just as well use (legal) single shot firearms; and that when mass shooters move about in their shooting locations, such events are improperly classified as mass shootings, rather than &quot;sprees.&quot;. © 2018 by the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1948-9137",
doi="10.22381/CRLSJ10120184",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/CRLSJ10120184"
}