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An Ounce of Prevention …: Gun Control and Public Health in Australia

An Ounce of Prevention …: Gun Control and Public Health in Australia AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1983) 16 (3-19) 3 AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION ... : GUN CONTROL AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA* Richard Hardingt If in the first Act you hang a gun on the wall, by the third Act you must use it. Anton Chekhov. Let me, by way of prologue, talk for a moment about bicycles. In Australia the fast-release nut has been developed and utilized so as to enable the saddle of a bike to be raised or lowered in seconds, thus creating the convenience of a "family bike". In the United States, the principal application of this same simple technology relates to the front wheel, which may thus be rapidly removed from the machine itself. Those of us who are cyclists would find this puzzling; for we know that if the front wheel is running true and free the best thing you can do is to leave well alone. What possible purpose can be served, therefore, in positively contriving an opportunity out of alignment? to put it The answer lies in crime patterns and community response to them. In large American cities, to lock one's bike in the conventional way is no longer http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

An Ounce of Prevention …: Gun Control and Public Health in Australia

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AUST & NZ JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY (March 1983) 16 (3-19) 3 AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION ... : GUN CONTROL AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA* Richard Hardingt If in the first Act you hang a gun on the wall, by the third Act you must use it. Anton Chekhov. Let me, by way of prologue, talk for a moment about bicycles. In Australia the fast-release nut has been developed and utilized so as to enable the saddle of a bike to be raised or lowered in seconds, thus creating the convenience of a "family bike". In the United States, the principal application of this same simple technology relates to the front wheel, which may thus be rapidly removed from the machine itself. Those of us who are cyclists would find this puzzling; for we know that if the front wheel is running true and free the best thing you can do is to leave well alone. What possible purpose can be served, therefore, in positively contriving an opportunity out of alignment? to put it The answer lies in crime patterns and community response to them. In large American cities, to lock one's bike in the conventional way is no longer

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1983

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