Who in the HECK do they PAY to come up with some of these results????
Interesting that this is the only place where race is mentioned in the article. Specifically there is no mention of racial correlations with the "activities" such as smoking crack, only with gun ownership in general. When reading such articles, the most important thing one ought notice is what is not said.
As this poor excuse for a study shows no causality whatsoever, this can best be described as one-man's opinion. This is a perfect example of the 'Post Hoc Ergo Procto Hoc' logical falicy.
In a related study, it was revealed that college students who repeatedly shop in "big & tall" clothing stores tend to have more exposure to bigness and tallness than those who do not, and tend to exhibit those traits. The research did not address the reasons behind this trend.
Well, this stupid survey just raised the race card, so I'll see them and raise them a buck. Why was there no racial breakout of the problem gun owners versus the ones without these problems? I think I know the answer to that one.
Fat chance this "study" will do anything other than cause college administrators to place greater emphasis on how they will penalize students found to have guns.
The issue of real crime won't be mentioned (can we say assault on campus, boy and girls?) College security departments tend to hide information about "real" crime on campus (not good for student recruiting.)
Students were also more likely to own guns if they were attending college in a part of the country where gun ownership was more common in the general population.
Stunning.
Well, there's the problem! This isn't a "study" its a propaganda tool. 4%. I'm willing to bet that there is NO statistical correlation of student gun ownership to ANY of the so-called behaviors listed by the 'good' professor. Considering that college students drink a lot, and want to have sex a lot, and maybe use drugs a lot, if you flatten out the results from the other 96% of students, you get - nothing. The worst part of this is that the so-called journalists just go along with anything that fits their preconceived bias'.
This is absolute nonsense. A better question might be, "Of those who brought a gun to campus, how many were victims of rape in the last year?"
Just as stunning. Most colleges probably ban guns in on-campus housing, so OF COURSE most guns owners will live off campus. And since more men than women own guns, of course most will be male. And since whites are the dominant race, of course they will predominate. And since so many students cohabitate off-campus, of course that will be a factor as well.
This would be a much more revealing analysis if the idiot researchers ever bothered with the concept of a denominator - to factor in whether or not a certain segment was over- or under-represented against the baseline. The fact they didn't do that here speaks volumes as to their objectivity, or lack thereof.
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."
Yep, they're working overtime to prove their pet equation that gun owners = nutbars, and society would be better off if us nutbars didn't have those horrible nasty guns that make me want to climb into my SUV, fatten up at the Mickey D's drive through, smoke my crack and then cut loose a clip at pedestrians, all in the name of a little fun.
What an absolute crock - they really did their best to twist the facts to come up with a correlation here, namely by ignoring countless other factors that might have provided light instead of just heat.
Interesting conclusion. Anyone here want to take the negative side of the bet that it was obtained by correlating the postive answers to two questions such as?:
11)Do you have a gun for protection
17)Have you been threatened by a gun at college.
Would the study have drawn this conclusion?
"For example, students have been threatened with a gun at college were more likely to own guns for protection."