Almost four in 10 young people across the UK and the Republic of Ireland know someone who has a gun, according to a survey commissioned by the music television channel MTV.
Of the 657 people surveyed by the channel, most of them aged under 24, 38% said they knew someone who had a gun. More than six out of 10 said they had seen a gun themselves, of whom 9% said they had seen one at school.
Asked whether there was ever any justification for carrying a gun, other than as part of a job, 22 per cent said they believed there was. A quarter said self defence was the main reason people carried guns, while 40% attributed it to wanting to intimidate others.
The survey results were released ahead of a series of programmes due to be aired on the relationship between gun culture and hip hop on 13 September.
Survey findings reveal extent of gun culture
September 6, 2005 in Youth justice
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