Would tighter handgun laws help to save lives?
更严格的手枪管理条例有助于挽救生命吗?
FINLAND’S government is introducing tougher regulations on handguns following a mass shooting at a school on Tuesday September 23rd, the second in under a year. The country had been among the most lenient in the world, allowing 15-year-olds to keep a handgun under parental supervision, requiring no medical or psychological tests and no minimum wait for those buying weapons. The gun-death rate (whether murder, accident or suicide) in rich countries is highest where there are more guns: America, Switzerland and Finland are in the top four countries for gun ownership per person. The death rate in Britain, which banned handguns following a school shooting in 1996, is 0.1 for every 100,000 people.
9月23日，芬兰发生严重的校园枪击案，这是该国在一年不到的时间里发生的第二次枪击事件。之后，芬兰政府引入了更加严格的手枪管理条例。芬兰是世界上最宽松的政府之 一，它允许15岁的孩子在父母监管下拥有手枪，不要求任何医学或心理测试，而且对购枪者不设置最小等待时间。拥有更多枪支的富裕国家，其与枪有关的死亡率(不管是谋杀、事故或是自杀)都非常高：美国、瑞士和芬兰的人均枪支拥有量均在世界前四。而在英国，每10万人中仅有0.1人死于枪击。1996年发生了校园枪击事件后，英国就禁止私人拥有手枪。
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