# Gun Control doesn't work... Except for when it does **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 25, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-control-doesnt-work-except-for-when-it-does/645135 "2012-12-25T21:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-control-doesnt-work-except-for-when-it-does/645135/32 "2012-12-26T05:53:25Z")
Here’s another study that I’ve seen posted in other threads, and should be relevant here. **John Mace** - This study is saying that the rate of decline in deaths due to firearms doubled after gun control was implemented. > [@Don't we have an obligation as a society to look at ways to curb gun violence?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-we-have-an-obligation-as-a-society-to-look-at-ways-to-curb-gun-violence/641871/256): > > [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704353/](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704353/) > [@](#): > > In the 18 years before the gun law reforms, there were 13 mass shootings in Australia, and none in the 10.5 years afterwards. Declines in firearm‐related deaths before the law reforms accelerated after the reforms for total firearm deaths (p=0.04), firearm suicides (p=0.007) and firearm homicides (p=0.15), but not for the smallest category of unintentional firearm deaths, which increased. No evidence of substitution effect for suicides or homicides was observed. The rates per 100000 of total firearm deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides all at least doubled their existing rates of decline after the revised gun laws. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-control-doesnt-work-except-for-when-it-does/645135)._