TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Australia's 1996 gun law reforms halted mass shootings for 22 years: A response to criticism from Gary Kleck
JO  - Contemporary readings in law and social justice
A1  - Chapman, S.
A1  - Alpers, P.
SP  - 94
EP  - 103
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 "sprees.". © 2018 by the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1948-9137
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.22381/CRLSJ10120184
ID  - ref1
ER  -