TITLE

Australians swift and decisive on gun violence

AUTHOR(S)

Wolpe, Bruce C.

PUB. DATE

January 1998

SOURCE

Public Health Reports;Jan/Feb98, Vol. 113 Issue 1, p96

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on gun violence in Australia, highlighting the government's policy to counteract this problem in 1998. Reference to an incident which resulted in 35 fatalities in 1996; How Australia is affected by American news and culture; Details on a law which enforced a ban on automatic and semi-automatic weapons.

ACCESSION #

334339

Tags: FIREARMS -- Government policy;  VIOLENCE

 

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