What percentage of students carry a gun?
Among a survey of inner-city high school students, 35 percent carried firearms regularly or occasionally. Additionally, 3 percent of students reported carrying a gun to school “all” or “most of the time” and an additional 6 percent did so “now and then”. Source: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, “Gun Acquisition and Possession in Selected Juvenile Samples,” (NCJ#145326) 1993.