{"id":830,"date":"2012-12-20T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/?p=830"},"modified":"2012-12-21T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:59:17","slug":"1994-assault-weapons-ban-may-have-saved-6000-lives-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2012\/12\/1994-assault-weapons-ban-may-have-saved-6000-lives-per-year\/","title":{"rendered":"1994 assault weapons ban may have saved 6000 lives per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although not a statistical statement, there is a noticeable association between when the 1994-2004 assault weapon ban was in place and the observed decline in gun-related deaths. That ban also contained other provisions that will have affected availability of guns.<\/p>\n<p>A decline of more than 6000 gun-related deaths per year appears to be\u00a0 associated\u00a0 with that legislation before it expired. See linked picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/files\/2012\/12\/gun-related-deaths1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-858\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/files\/2012\/12\/gun-related-deaths1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/files\/2012\/12\/gun-related-deaths1.jpg 994w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/files\/2012\/12\/gun-related-deaths1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another articles on this issue also has compelling graphs. The title of the paper could be its abstract..<\/p>\n<p>S Chapman, P Alpers, K Agho, M Jones. 2006. <a href=\"http:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/content\/12\/6\/365.full.pdf+html\"><strong>Australia\u2019s 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings.<\/strong><\/a> <em>Injury Prevention<\/em> 2006;12:365\u2013372. doi: 10.1136\/ip.2006.013714<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although not a statistical statement, there is a noticeable association between when the 1994-2004 assault weapon ban was in place and the observed decline in gun-related deaths. That ban also contained other provisions that will have affected availability of guns. A decline of more than 6000 gun-related deaths per year appears to be\u00a0 associated\u00a0 with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2012\/12\/1994-assault-weapons-ban-may-have-saved-6000-lives-per-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1994 assault weapons ban may have saved 6000 lives per year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7238,7243,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}