text: Around one in 10 Americans suffer from explosive anger management issues and has easy access to guns, a study has found. Some 3.7 million of the short-fused gun owners also confessed to carrying their weapons outside of the home. The research carried out by Harvard, Columbia and Duke University found that the majority of angry gun owners were young or middle aged men. Around one in 10 American suffering from explosive anger management issues has easy access to guns, a study has found . They were said to be more likely to live in suburban areas and be married, according to the study. They also discovered that despite some struggling with 'impulsive' and 'destructive' behavior, this was not picked up on background checks that could restrict their ownership, according to CBS News. The findings were described as 'something of a wake-up call,' by the report's author Jefferey Swanson. 'To have gun violence you need two things: a gun and a dangerous person,' he said. 'We can't broadly limit legal access to guns, so we have to focus on the dangerous people.' The study, that saw more than 5,500 men and women quizzed, came in the wake of a number of high-profile gun tragedies in the US. The study comes in the wake of a number of high-profile tragedies in the US. Pictured: Mass murderer Adam Lanza, left, who gunned down 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary school and James Holmes, right, accused of shooting dead 12 people at an Aurora movie theatre . More than 306,000 people have died in the US as a result of being shot in the last 10 years. Adam Lanza, 20, became one of America's most notorious murderers when he went on an 11 minute shooting spree at Sandy Hook elementary School in 2012. He killed 20 student and six teacher in the massacre. In a movie theatre in Aurora. Colorado, 12 people were shot dead and 70 others injured by alleged gunman James Holmes. But Swanson reportedly told CBS: 'The idea that the solution is to simply fix our mental health care system to better identify serious mental illness is a little bit of a red herring.' Instead the study suggested that the previous convictions, including driving matters, were taken into account by those dishing out the licences.
target: 8.9 per cent of Americans have impulsive anger issues and access to guns .
  3.7 million of the short-fused gun owners carry weapons in public .
  Study by three universities interviewed more than 5,000 men and woman .
  Comes in the wake of a number of high-profile gun tragedies in the US .