46.7
Ratio of female gun to male non-gun carriers
3.72 8.51 4.59
36 Exhibit 19 shows the incidence of delinquent behavior by ethnicity, controlling for gun carrying. Across ethnic groups, gun carriers were substantially more likely than non-gun carriers to have been arrested, stolen a vehicle, and attacked someone with the intention of hurting them. The difference between gun and non-gun carriers was smallest for Whites being arrested, Native Americans for vehicle theft, and African Americans for attacking someone. The largest differences between gun and non-gun carriers within an ethnic group were for Asians, with gun carrying Asians being 8 to 17 times more likely to have been arrested, stolen a vehicle, and attacked someone. Native American gun carriers were the most likely to self-report having been arrested and having stolencarried a gun regularly. About 10 percent of males and just over 2 percent of females reported having carried a gun. Nine percent of African American youth reported having carried a gun, followed by 8.7 percent of Native Americans, 6.8 percent of Hispanics, 5.2 percent of Whites, and 2.7 percent of Asians. In terms of raw numbers, most gun carriers were White, followed by Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, and Asians. Likewise, most gun carriers were male (81.1 percent), with only about 19 percent of gun carriers being female. Half of the youth who had carried a gun did so for the first time before they were 13 years old. Only a small proportion of the youth surveyed had friends who had carried a gun, and most did