children and violence (urban -vs- rural)

Roybean

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Does anyone have any info on crimes among children who grew up in rural -vs- urban areas and children who grew up with firearm training -vs- those that didn't?
 
Roybean, is this the info you are looking for? It is from the Justice department and is a study of juvenile gun use.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/urdel.pdf

"Figure 13 shows a very strong relationship between owning illegal guns and delinquency and drug use. 74% of the illegal gunowners commit street crimes, 24% commit gun crimes and 41% use drugs. Boys who own legal firearms however have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use and are even slightly less delinquent than nonowners of guns."
 
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