Homeland Security and Public Safety- Lessons in Gun Control from Australia and Brazil-05/06/2014

By: J.B. Wogan
In the year and a half since 20 children were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a handful of states have passed laws requiring universal background checks, bans on semi-automatic weapons and limits on high-capacity magazines. But the U.S. remains a patchwork of uneven regulations on firearms, ammunition and gun owners. Meanwhile, at least 44 school shootings have occurred since the Newtown tragedy.

If state leaders want to curb firearm violence through regulation, perhaps they could learn from countries that have tightened gun restrictions in recent years. That’s the idea behind Reducing Gun Violence in America, a compendium of social science research on guns, with chapters on the experiences of Australia, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

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