From: Rural youth’s exposure to firearm violence and their attitudes regarding firearm safety measures
A firearm safety course should be required to get a hunting license | |||||
Strongly Agree | 861 (62%) | ||||
Agree | 375 (27%) | ||||
Neutral | 105 (8%) | ||||
Disagree | 31 (2%) | ||||
Strongly Disagree | 10 (1%) | ||||
Cross Tab Analysis | Logistic Regression Analysisa | ||||
Variables | Agree n (Row %)b | Neutral/Disagree n (Row %)b | p value | OR | CI |
Group N | 1236 (89%) | 146 (11%) | |||
Sex | < 0.001 | ||||
Male | 604 (87%) | 93 (13%) | 0.50 | 0.34–0.73 | |
Female | 629 (93%) | 51 (8%) | 1.0 (ref) | ||
Age | 0.30 | ||||
16–18 years | 802 (89%) | 101 (11%) | 0.92 | 0.63–1.35 | |
13–15 years | 434 (91%) | 45 (9%) | 1.0 (ref) | ||
Residence | 0.73 | ||||
Farm | 646 (89%) | 81 (11%) | 0.88 | 0.58–1.35 | |
Country/Not Farm | 225 (90%) | 25 (10%) | 1.03 | 0.59–1.78 | |
Town | 361 (90%) | 39 (10%) | 1.0 (ref) | ||
Race | 0.81 | ||||
Caucasian | 1181 (89%) | 139 (11%) | 1.0(ref) | ||
Non-Caucasian | 54 (89%) | 7 (11%) | 0.99 | 0.41–2.39 | |
Rifle/Shotgun in Home | 0.12 | ||||
Yes | 1030 (88%) | 128 (12%) | 0.83 | 0.44–1.55 | |
No | 206 (92%) | 17 (8%) | 1.0 (ref) | ||
Handgun in Home | 0.046 | ||||
Yes | 706 (97%) | 96 (3%) | 0.72 | 0.48–1.08 | |
No | 530 (91%) | 50 (9%) | 1.0 (ref) | ||
Hunted | 0.55 | ||||
Yes | 674 (89%) | 83 (11%) | 1.27 | 0.85–1.90 | |
No | 551 (90%) | 61 (10%) | 1.0 (ref) | ||
Fired Rifle/Shotgun | 0.043 | Not used in the analysis | |||
> 20 times | 705 (88%) | 98 (12%) | |||
6–20 times | 153 (94%) | 10 (6%) | |||
1–5 times | 187 (90%) | 20 (10%) | |||
Never | 189 (93%) | 15 (7%) | |||
Fired a Handgun | 0.61 | Not used in the analysis | |||
> 20 times | 366 (88%) | 49 (12%) | |||
6–20 times | 160 (91%) | 15 (9%) | |||
1–5 times | 231 (90%) | 25 (10%) | |||
Never | 469 (90%) | 51 (10%) |