Guns easy to find for US school students, says survey.(News)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: April 3, 2001 | Copyright information

NEARLY half of school students in the United States have easy access to guns and more than one in five boys have taken a weapon to school in the last year, according to a survey yesterday.

Forty-seven percent of high school students said they could obtain a gun if they wanted to, while 22 per cent of middle ...

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