Gun-Toting Students Show More Risky Behaviors

Reuters Health via Yahoo ^ | 10-28-02 | Alison McCook

[justshutupandtakeit]

The kids are yanking these clymer's chains.

[Grut]

Miller told Reuters Health that the study did not assess why gun-owners are more likely to show high-risk behaviors in college than those without guns, but he speculated that this tendency "may reflect a disposition to both own guns and engage in risky behavior."

I stand in awe - in AWE - of this man's intellect!

[BlessingInDisguise]

10mm porn

[ChuteTheMall GawdSortaMount]

I wonder how many gun-owning students felt the questionairre was a silly invasion of their privacy, perhaps even a fishing expedition to find out who illegally held guns on campus, and either lied or threw it away?

[Jabba the Nutt]

Here's the a partial abstract from the Journal of American College Health:

"Guns at college Matthew Miller; Journal of American College Health; Jul 1999; Vol. 48, Iss. 1; pg. 7, 6 pgs

Abstract:
A random sample of more than 15,000 undergraduate students from 130 4-year colleges answered a mailed questionnaire concerning firearm possession. Approximately 3.5[percent] of the sampled students reported they had a working firearm at college. Students with guns were more likely to be male, White, or Native American; to binge drink and need to start the day with alcohol; to be members of a ..."

Now, this article is from 1999 and it's news today? Or did this guy do the study over? Notice the article say 3.5% of students said they had a working firearm at College and they include Indians with whites. What happened to them in the article?

[Chemist_Geek]

So now gun ownership leads to binge drinking and higher rates of unprotected sex.

Huh? Not in my experience...

Of course this "study" is academic bilgewater of the lowest grade. Peer-review should have chopped it up into Julienne fries, but, as this is the squishy "sciences," they'll get away with it...

[hsmomx3]

EXCELLENT points but haven't recent surveys said that kids are well adjusted who are put in daycare at a young age? We know otherwise.........

[hsmomx3]

Absolutely!!

[TigersEye]

The only reason that Dr. Matthew Miller of Harvard University in Boston and his colleagues think that gun ownership is low in NE is because they think Boston and Martha's Vineyard comprise all of NE.

I was kind of wondering if the good Doctor had excluded Vermont, New Hamphire and Maine (to say the least) from New England.

By the way, it was reported today that 222 moose had been taken in the four day VT moose hunting season. Perhaps they were downed with evil SUV's since guns are so rare up here.

[DWSUWF]

"...So now gun ownership leads to binge drinking and higher rates of unprotected sex. Ooookayyy....

I can hear the bar chippies now...

"Is that a .44 Magnum with an 8" bull barrel in your pocket?

Or are you just glad to see me?"

[Woahhs]

students who owned guns for protection were more likely to be threatened with a gun at college.

This is absolute nonsense.

I can see you aren't real familiar with the esoteric art of Zen statistical analysis. You see: if you build it, they will come... if you don't demand a cure for aids, you will contract it... Opposition to homosexuality means you are one... you must support welfare or you will become poor... Up is really down and left is really right, if you are but deep enough to comprehend it. Liberal logic is far too deep to make sense.

[RipSawyer]

If the real number is not higher than that I will stand on my head and whistle Dixie in the middle of times square with a daisy stuck in my rear.

[RipSawyer]

I stand in awe - in AWE - of this man's intellect!


I am shocked, shocked I say.

[FormerLurker]

I can see where this is headed. another perverted porno-gun thread. so be it.

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[sawsalimb]

222 moose

Is that a new wildcat I haven't heard about yet? And where can I get one?!?!?!?

[Pat Bateman]

Isn't this from about a year ago? Guess they saw the opportunity and dragged it out again...

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for pointing that out (the year of the article, 1999, that is). Very interesting observations.

[MonroeDNA]

Let's see the raw data, including all questions and responses.

...We'll never see it, of course.

[Pharmboy]

Evidently yes. Jabba had just pointed that out.