Study Claims Stricter Gun Laws Leads To Safer High Schools

By Tom Knighton

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The headline is bound to elicit some response. Anti-gunners are likely to share it all over social media, ready to claim that it’s somehow proof that we need more gun control throughout the nation.

“Study: Stricter State Gun Laws Linked to Safer High Schools,” it reads, and since most people these days only read the headline, it’s bound to spin up the anti-gunners.

However, the study isn’t quite the slam dunk anti-gunners would like to believe.

In a report published Thursday in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, researchers found that strengthening gun laws at the state level was associated with teens being less likely to report being threatened or injured with a weapon at school, or missing school because they felt unsafe. Stricter gun laws were also linked less incidences of students carrying a weapon anywhere.

The researchers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which has surveyed high school students every two years since 1991, asking nearly a million young people in 45 states about weapons-related behaviors, among other things. Students self-reported on their experiences carrying weapons at school, the number of times they were threatened or injured related …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms