LOMA LINDA , Calif. (UPI) -- Analysis of a survey of U.S. schoolchildren has identified those more likely to carry weapons, which may help improve school safety, researchers said.
Being male and being a member of certain self-selected racial groups indicated a student was more likely to carry a weapon, researchers from Loma Linda University in California said Monday in a news release from BioMed Central, which published the findings in Annals of General Psychiatry.
Pupils who identified themselves as white were more likely to carry weapons than those who identified themselves as black, researchers said. Other factors researchers found associated with weapon carrying were substance use, depression, victimized by theft or property damage at school, being raped, being threatened with a weapon or being in an altercation.
Researchers analyzed a 2005 survey of 13,707 U.S. children, nearly evenly split between males and females. Overall, 10.2 percent of males and 2.6 percent of females reported carrying a weapon on school property.
"We do not believe that there are any inherent genetic differences that determine race and that affect the way that adolescents behave," the authors said in their paper. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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