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There was actually a study done by some group on kids who were JDs. They looked at who went hunting & who didn't. The "didn't" portion was overwhelmingly part of the JD bunch versus the "did". I think Am Rifleman listed this study a few months ago.

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At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what is "JD"?

Gun ownership and delinquency

Adolescent ownership and use of firearms is a growing concern, and results
from the Rochester study suggest the concern is well founded.
By the ninth and tenth grades, more boys own illegal guns (7 percent) than own
legal guns (3 percent). Of the boys who own illegal guns, about half of the
whites and African-Americans and nearly 90 percent of the Hispanics carry
them on a regular basis.
Figure 13 shows a very strong relationship between owning illegal guns and
delinquency and drug use. Seventy-four percent of the illegal gunowners com-mit
street crimes, 24 percent commit gun crimes, and 41 percent 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.
The socialization into gun ownership is also vastly different for legal and illegal
gunowners. Those who own legal guns have fathers who own guns for sport and
hunting. On the other hand, those who own illegal guns have friends who own
illegal guns and are far more likely to be gang members. For legal gunowners,
socialization appears to take place in the family; for illegal gunowners, it
appears to take place “on the street.”

UNINTENTIONAL FIREARM-RELATED DEATHS

In 1997, 306 (7.2%) children and adolescents younger than 20 years killed by firearms died as a result of unintentional firearm-related injuries. Only 6.5% (20/306) of these deaths involved children younger than 5 years of age. However, deaths from unintentional firearm-related injuries account for a large proportion of firearm-related deaths of younger children. Twenty-four percent of firearm-related deaths in children younger than 5 years of age are attributable to unintentional shootings; 26% for children 5 through 9 years of age; 21% for children 10 through 14 years of age; and 5% for adolescents 15 through 19 years of age. The rates for males are higher than those for females, and the rates for blacks are higher than those for whites.1 Most unintentional shootings occur among children left unsupervised at home.37-39 Unintentional shootings in rural areas are more likely to occur outdoors with shotguns or rifles, in contrast to urban areas, where they are more likely to be indoors with handguns.40 However, handguns account for ~70% of all unintentional firearm-related injuries and deaths.17,40,41

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My dad taught me gun safety and how to shoot when I was about 4 years old.  He had 3 or 4 pistols and rifles in the house that I knew were off-limits.  I turned out OK and have a healthy respect for weapons to this day.  No, it's not unhealthy.  What's unhealthy is disrespect and/or ignorance of guns.

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...I've heard arguments that it makes them feel insecure or paranoid, or that they should be scared all the time.