UWM study finds over half of gun violence perpetrators and victims had elevated blood lead levels as children

From JSOnline:

Talis Shelbourne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health is the first accredited public health school in Wisconsin. (Photo: Troye Fox, UWM Photo Services)

More than half of the people who were perpetrators or victims of gun violence in Milwaukee in recent years had elevated blood lead levels as children, according to a study released Friday by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The study of nearly 90,000 residents, conducted at the University's Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, suggests a link between early childhood lead exposure and gun violence in later years.

Lindsay R. Emer, the study's lead author, said it was conducted using public health, education and criminal justice data.

Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/health/2019/10/19/half-milwaukee-gun-violence-linked-kids-high-lead-levels/4022200002/

The high lead levels are because the majority of Milwaukee's shooters come from poor neighborhoods.  I think you'd find that the majority of them cannot speak proper English, either.  Nor did many of them receive regular nutritious meals in their childhoods.  So, do these contribute to a propensity to fire weapons, too?  The actual cause is a lack of parenting and everyone knows it.  A child raised on the streets will take to the streets' ways.  More BS research paid for by our tax dollars.