Study links gun crime to childhood obesity
A recent study conducted by New York's B ob Hoskins University indicates that American teenagers are turning to gun crime as an "easy way out" when it comes to fighting with peers. The landmark sample of students across the forty-eight states that touch eac h other - and several counties in Alaska - was asked a series of questions and given a number of tasks under laboratory conditions, over the course of a six month period. In order to complete their tests, the students were offered the choice of a physical altercation with a fellow test study subject, or the option of a super-sized fast food meal and a gun with which they could shoot their fellow test subject. Alarmingly, 94 percent of the students tested chose to eat a big meal and then shoot their lab test colleague, rather than have a fist-fight. The tests - carried out on thousands of fourteen to seventeen year olds - took into consideration ethnic background, class, sexual orientation, pregancy status, and the ne...