Enter the words 'gun control' into the Google search engine and you elicit more than 37 million entries in 0.34 seconds. Enter 'gun control facts' and 1.5 million website options appear.
Yet despite this abundance of web material, accurate information on gun usage and gun control is actually difficult to find on the World Wide Web, according to University of Sydney Adjunct Associate Professor Philip Alpers.
"The web is absolutely littered with opinions, not facts about gun control," says A/Professor Alpers, who has been researching the true state of gun control globally for the past 15 years. "Website content is very polarised, very heated, and it can be really difficult for people to navigate which sites are run by vested interests and which are truly trying to present the whole picture."
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