New study shows that more and more rich white teenagers are carrying guns

Thank you, citizen. Glad to see someone’s focused on the important issues.

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An armed kindergarten playground is a polite kindergarten playground…
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Lesser known Tull, but still rockin’

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At least they have the locker.

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The paper being discussed is analysis of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, and the question asked is “How many times in the last 12 months have you carried a handgun”

It’s pretty evident that the questionnaire’s creators had a particular meaning in mind by putting this question in the section of questions on delinquent behaviours. And the discussion here indicates that readers interpret a particular meaning, that of carrying a handgun (concealed or otherwise) when going about one’s day in public.

I can imagine, however, that some rural youth in the upper two quintiles of family income might respond to the question in about the same way that they’d answer “how many times in the last 12 months have you carried an x?”, with x being any item found in the home that might be carried to move it to where it was needed/desired.

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