There is no doubt that the gun banning movement in Australia will be looking to the Harvard gun study for “ammunition” against guns. The study allegedly found that stronger levels of gun control led to lower levels of murder and suicide. Of course, the study carefully chose the right country to get these results, America, rather than Mexico, and much of South America, which generally have severe gun control, but drug cartels are often better armed than police, and willing to do battle with them to defend their turf.
However, as noted by American thinker.com, even if we accept their methodology, which is equivalent to saying there would be less car accidents if cars are banned, the study showed that those US states only had less suicide and murder by guns. Murder and suicide rates were not lower, and were often higher; people just used other weapons. And, to be blunt, and to make a point of it, guns are probably more civilised than instruments like knives, which are nasty, as the explosion of knife murders in the UK well shows.
