Despite public interest in keeping guns out of schools, little is known about the effects of gun control on youths’ gun carrying or school violence. Using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) for 1993–2013, we examine the relationship between child-access-prevention (CAP) laws and gun carrying among high-school students. Our results suggest that CAP laws lead to an 18.5 percent decrease in the rate of gun carrying and a 19 percent decrease in the rate at which students report being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property. These results are concentrated among minors, for whom CAP laws are most likely to bind. To supplement our YRBS analysis, we assemble a data set on school-shooting deaths for 1991–2013. We find little evidence that CAP laws deter school-associated shooting deaths, but these estimates are insufficiently precise to reach a policy conclusion.

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防止儿童进入的法律，携带青少年的枪支和学校枪击事件

尽管公众有兴趣将枪支留在学校之外，但对于枪支管制对年轻人携带枪支或学校暴力的影响知之甚少。我们使用1993-2013年的青少年风险行为调查（YRBS）中的数据，研究了防止儿童获取（CAP）法律与高中生枪支携带之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明，CAP法导致枪支携带率下降18.5％，学生报告受到学校财产武器威胁或伤害的比率下降19％。这些结果集中在未成年人中，而CAP法最有可能对其约束。为了补充我们的YRBS分析，我们收集了1991-2013年学校射击死亡数据集。我们几乎没有证据表明CAP法能够阻止与学校相关的枪击事件，