Word: guns
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There were also many other factors that were found in common among gun-carrying students. These included an larger-than-average number of male students, smokers, students who used drugs or alcohol or who had been involved in criminal activity in the past...
Hemenway said he thinks that the problem is not the inherent violent tendencies of these students. Many students surveyed indicated that they carried a gun for protection, because they felt threatened by other students who had guns. Hemenway said he sees this as a problem with the supply of guns to students...
...cited a recent survey in the Boston Public Schools about gun carrying that showed that many students carried a gun, but wished that they did not have...
Hemenway said that although gun violence is a real problem, with 90 people dying in Massachusetts every day as a result of gun violence, there is not an adequate amount of awareness about it. He said he thinks that studies like this one will promote public awareness...
...thing is that what we really need is better data on what is happening and why," Hemenway said, "Anytime someone dies in a motor vehicle accident, we have lots of information on it, and this is not true in gun fatality. In the motor vehicle area, there are a lot of evaluation studies...