Disarming
禁止槍支

Would tighter handgun laws help to save lives?
更嚴格的手槍管理條例有助于挽救生命嗎？

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，芬蘭發生嚴重的校園槍擊案，這是該國在一年不到的時間里發生的第二次槍擊事件。之后，芬蘭政府引入了更加嚴格的手槍管理條例。芬蘭是世界上最寬松的政府之 一，它允許15歲的孩子在父母監管下擁有手槍，不要求任何醫學或心理測試，而且對購槍者不設置最小等待時間。擁有更多槍支的富裕國家，其與槍有關的死 亡率（不管是謀殺、事故或是自殺）都非常高：美國、瑞士和芬蘭的人均槍支擁有量均在世界前四。而在英國，每10萬人中僅有0.1人死于槍擊。1996年發生了校園槍擊事件后，英國就禁止私人擁有手槍。