Firearm homicide rates are nearly 20 times higher in the United States than other high-income countries, and theannual costs of gun violence top $100 billion by some estimates. But in one of the largest studies of gun carrying behavior in the U.S. to date, researchers have found that historically low numbers of adolescents are carrying weapons today. Rates of handgun carrying among white Americans, however, are rising.
In the new study, researchers used data collected between 2002 and 2013 from nearly 200,000 American adolescents as part of the National Study on Drug Use and Health. The study surveyed 12- to 17-year-olds about their handgun carrying behavior, drug use, delinquency, risk-taking, and family life.
[For more of this story, written by Kate Wheeling, go to https://psmag.com/fewer-teens-...905a871f4#.lxlpq5gk2]
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