Word: agee
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High school students of above average age for their class are more likely to carry guns in school, a recent study found. Dr. D. Neil Hayes of the Boston University School of Medicine and David Hemenway '74 of the Harvard School of Public Health drew this conclusion from a study of 59 Massachusetts high schools...
Studies in other states have produced similar results, Hemenway said yesterday, but this was the first study that specifically analyzed the age factor. The study was done through the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey (MYRBS) which asked students a series of 10 questions that measured their propensity for violent behavior...
...survey was given to a random sampling of 3153 students at the 59 schools, and measured several factors in relation to a student's tendency to carry a gun in school. These included age, race, gender, gang membership and propensity for being involved in fights with other students...
...underage kids to buy the porn." And the laws on protecting youngsters are especially stringent -- and difficult to overturn on appeal. Flynt may therefore never get to attack the local standards issue. But if he doesn?t, the challenge is likely to come from somewhere else -- and in this age of cyberspace, sooner rather than later...
...Columbine High School tragedy. With the NRA still sticking to its absolutist antiregulatory position, two industry groups, the American Shooting Sports Council and the National Shooting Sports Council, came out in support of several proposals aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of children -- among them raising the age for legal possession from 18 to 21, holding parents criminally responsible for giving children access to guns, and requiring locks on most firearms. ?These latest developments reflect a difference that has been demonstrated in a number of polls,? says TIME assistant managing editor Dan Goodgame...