Posted April 9, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Ever since Parkland, we’ve been inundated with student-activists who are bound and determined to push through gun control despite not being old enough to vote themselves. While I disagree with their efforts completely, I don’t have any moral qualms with student activists in general. I tend to think it’s good for the young to start understanding politics and to get involved.

However, they have been all about gun control, and that’s kind of annoying. To make matters worse, though, they’ve had ready allies in the mainstream media who have blasted their message loud and clear.

Now, a study finds that students in states with stricter gun control laws feel safer than those who don’t.

U.S. adolescents living in states with stricter gun laws may feel safer at school, a survey of high school students suggests.

Stronger gun laws were linked with lower odds that kids had been threatened or injured with any kind of weapon at school, had themselves carried a weapon, or had missed school because they felt unsafe, researchers found.

The data came from 926,639 teens in 45 states who participated in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, a biennial survey of 9th through 12th graders conducted by the U.S. Centers …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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