In the rural United States, an adolescent who drinks heavily has a 43% greater probability of carrying a handgun in the following year, according to a study published this month in The Journal of Rural Health.
“While there has been a lot of research on this correlation in urban areas, little is known about the association between alcohol use, particularly heavy drinking, and handgun carrying in rural areas,” said lead author Alice Ellyson, an acting assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and investigator in UW Medicine’s Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program.
Youg men like guns.
Young men like alcohol.
In rural areas young men normally have more access to both and they’re more likely to already take part in activities with guns. Like pest control, hunting.
Also guns are fun!
Drinking is also fun!
Doing those together is more fun! But stupid.
Young men are stupid.
Source: am man
There isn’t much here to think about.
correlation ≠ causation
Name a dumber and more dangerous combo. I’ll wait.
Creating responsible gun owners early.
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I don’t think the to are related if it only presented itself in rural America and no where else. If a similar thing happened in either urban US, or rural Russia, it could be more easy to link it to it being drinking that causes that. This study has to many variables
