But there are other risk factors. Certainly any family that has diabetes in it, particularly Type 2 diabetes. The risk goes up if the child becomes obese. For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, led the study.
Misdemeanors are less serious crimes.
A simple assault for example, an assault that doesn't involve the use of a weapon. Or crimes such as brandishing a firearm or carrying a firearm concealed in public without a permit, or shoplifting or drinking and driving. And it's people with those sorts of convictions that we studied. We have a chicken and egg problem here. At the macro level, it's clear that crime rates and gun sales go up and down together.