Appendix

RESPONSES TO ALL QUESTIONS: (Weighted)*

1) YEAR IN SCHOOL

[SKOLYR]

2) SCHOOL TYPE

[SKOL]

3) SCHOOL SIZE

[SKOLSIZE]

4) SCHOOL SAFE
Would you rate your school as very safe, fairly safe, somewhat unsafe, or very unsafe?

[SKOLSAFE]

5) PERSONAL SAFETY
Are you ever concerned about personal safety at school, or on the way to and from school?

[RSAFE]

6) CARRY GUN
Has anyone you know ever carried a gun in school or on the way to or from school?

[GUNCARRY]

7) THREATENED OR SHOT
Do you know of anyone in your school who has been threatened with a gun or shot at?

[GUNTHRET]

8) SHOT?
Not including military combat, have you or anyone close to you-- such as a friend or relative -- ever been shot by a gun?

[GUNSHOT]

9) GUN DISCUSSION
Within the last year, have you discussed gun control issues in class, at home or with your friends?

[GUNTALK]

10) GUN MEDIA
Have you seen anything about gun control issues in the media?

[GUNMEDIA]

11) STRICTER GUN LAWS?
In general, do you feel that laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict,less strict or kept as they are now?

[GUNLAWS]

12) COOLING OFF PERIOD
Require a 5-day waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a handgun, to keep the buyer from acting on impulse against himself or others.

[LAWCOOL]

13) REGISTER HANDGUNS
Register all handguns, at the time of purchase, so that they could be traced by the police when necessary for criminal investigations.

[LAWREG]

14) BACKGROUND CHECK
Require all handgun buyers to pass a criminal background check, whether they are buying the gun from a gun dealer or a private individual; at a store or gun show?

[LAWCHECK]

15) LICENSE
Require handgun buyers to obtain a gun owner's license before purchasing a handgun.

[LAWLIC]

16) RAISE AGE
Raise the age at which someone can purchase a handgun from 18 to 21.

[LAWAGE]

17) BAN CIVILIANPOSSESSION
Ban the possession of handguns except by the police and other authorized personnel.

[LAWBAN]

18) BAN ALL POSSESSION
Ban the possession of handguns by all persons, even the police.

[LAWBANS]

19) TRIGGER LOCK
Require all guns sold in the US to have a trigger lock, a device that prevents a gun from being fired until the device is unlocked and removed.

[SAFETRIG]

20) SAFETY COURSE
Require anyone who wants to buy a gun to first pass a gun safety course.
 

[SAFECOUR]

21) CHILDREN AND SAFE STORAGE
Hold adults criminally responsible if they fail to store a gun safely and a child harms himself or someone else with that gun.

[SAFESTOR]

22) LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN
The government should do everything it can to keep handguns out of the hands of criminals, even if it means that it will be harder for law-abiding citizens to purchase handguns.

[LAWABIDE]

23) CONSTITUTION
In your opinion, does the US Constitution guarantee individual citizens the right to own firearms?

[CONSTIT]

24) REGULATION ANDCONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Do you believe that laws regulating the sale and use of handguns violate the constitutional rights of gun owners?(Not asked of respondents who answered No on #23).

[CONLAW]

Questions 25 to 30 measure potential for gun-control activism. They were not asked of a small group of respondents (about 8 percent of the sample)who responses to items 11 (less or same) and/or 15 (disapprove) revealed that they were generally opposed to control measures.

25) ACTIVISM: PETITION
Suppose a friend who thinks like you do about these issues asked you to sign a petition calling for stronger gun control laws. On a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being very Unlikely and 5 being very likely, how likely is it that you would sign the petition

[PETITION]

26) ACTIVISM: MEETING
Attend a meeting of a group that promotes stricter gun control.

[MEETING]

27) ACTIVISM: OFFICIAL
Attend a meeting of students with a local official to urge passage of stricter gun laws.

[OFFICIAL]

28) ACTIVISM: MARCH
Participate in a demonstration or protest march for stronger gun control.
 

[MARCH]

29) ACTIVISM: VOLUNTEER 5 HOURS
Volunteer 5 hours a week for a gun control group.

[FIVE HRS]

30) ACTIVISM: YOUTH INFLUENCE
On the same 1-to-5 scale, how likely do you think it is that organized efforts by young people could influence gun laws?

[YOUNG]

31) POPULATION
Which best describes the place you live? Rural Area; Suburb; Town or City under 100k; Medium-sized City, between 100k & 500k; Large City over 500k.

 

[PLACE]

32) NEIGHBORHOOD INCOMES
Compared to other Americans, would you say that the families in your neighborhood have incomes in the top third, in the middle third, or in the lower third?

[PLACE$$$]

33) NEIGHBORHOOD GUN PURCHASE
Would it be easy for a person your age, living in your neighborhood to obtain a handgun?

[GETGUN]

34) NEIGHBORHOOD GUN VIOLENCE
To your knowledge, has anyone ever been killed or seriously injured by a gunshot in your neighborhood?

[GUNKILL]

35) WHEN GUN VIOLENCE?
How recently did this happen? Stop me when I get to the right time period. Within the last week, within . .. (Asked only of respondents who answered Yes to #34)

[WHENKILL]

36) SEX

[SEX]

37) RACE/ ETHNICITY
Which category best describes your ethnic or racial background?White, Black or African American, Hispanic, Asian, Other or Mixed.

[RACEETH]

38) PARENTS
Do you live with both parents, your mother only, your mother and stepfather, your father only, or your father and stepmother, neither parent, or shared time with both.

[2PARENTS & PARENTS]

39) FAMILY INCOME
If you had to make a rough guess, what will your family’s income be this year?

[FAM$$]

40) FATHER'S EDUCATION
How much education did your father complete? Did not complete high school, High School, Some College, College graduate, Post graduate education.

[PAED]

41) MOTHER'S EDUCATION
How much education did your mother complete?

[MAED]

42) LONG GUNS
Do you or anyone else in your household own a rifle or shotgun?

[LONGUN]

43) HANDGUN
Do you or anyone else in your household own a handgun?

[HANDGUN]

44) NRA
Do you or anyone in your household belong to the NRA-- the National Rifle Association?

[NRA]

45) POLITICALPARTY
Do you consider yourself a Democrat, Republican or neither?

[PARTY]

46) RELIGION
Do you consider yourself Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion or no religion at all?

[RELIGION]

47) BORN AGAIN
Would you describe yourself as an evangelical or born again Christian? [Not asked of respondents who replied Jewish or none on previous question]

[BORNAGN]

48) VIDEO GAMES
In the past week, have you played any first person action games, such as Half-Life, Bond or Quake, where the objective is to kill your opponent?

[GAMES]

49) GRADES
What have your grades been during the current school year? Stop me when I get to the right level

[GRADES]

50) STUDY PLANS
How much schooling do you expect to complete? May not finish HS,HS, Some College, College graduate, Post graduate education

[SKOLPLAN]

51) REGION

[REGION]
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*NOTES: Results are weighted for parents’ education, for region, race/ethnicity, and year in school. “Not sure” responses (always volunteered) and refusals were excluded from tabulations unless they exceed 1 percent of sample.