Handgun owners carrying daily in US doubled
in 4 years; self-protection cited as main
reason: study
Fox News,
by
Brie Stimson
Original Article
Posted By: Black Conservative Voice,
11/27/2022 7:21:17 AM
Twice the number of Americans were carrying handguns daily in 2019 compared to 2015, according to a new study published this month.
Around 6,000 gun owners carried handguns every day in 2019, up from 3,000 in 2015, according to a study from the American Journal of Public Health published on Nov. 16.
The number of respondents to the online survey who said they had carried a gun in the last month also nearly doubled from 9 million to 16 million in 2015.
The study focuses solely on owners carrying a handgun on their person, not in their car.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TCloud 11/27/2022 7:51:30 AM (No. 1343160)
So Spooky out there you cannot even turn around!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/27/2022 7:58:26 AM (No. 1343164)
You need a study for that? 6000 in a country of 300 million legal residents is pittance. Probably grossly understated.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/27/2022 8:30:48 AM (No. 1343183)
A former neighbor and friend from the Florida Highway Patrol, an expert with various types of firearms, convinced me to get a concealed firearm license several years ago for the reason that if I get attacked, I'm completely on my own. My safety and my life are ultimately my responsibility, not anyone else's. Yes, if you have been attacked, and live to call the police, they'll respond. But police aren't ubiquitous, and generally cannot prevent crimes while they are happening. They're there to assess the crime scene, pick up the bodies, arrest the perps, and do their jobs. As my Trooper friend told me, "Your job is to keep yourself safe, and alive. No one else can do that for you." The only truly effective defense against armed criminals is a pistol under your belt, round chambered, and ready to go. As Malone (Sean Connery) said in The Untouchables, "They'd do the same to you." The administration's anti-gun policy is totally unacceptable. Democrats and any RINOs supporting Biden on this should be thrown out of office. Hurled, if fact. Slammed to the pavement.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 11/27/2022 8:50:56 AM (No. 1343198)
"6,000 gun owners carried a gun every day"? Hmm. sounds WAY low to me. like it should be more like millions.
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In this digital age with much info sharing across countless days bases, what thinking gun owner/carrier is going to respond even to an "anonymous" survey like that?
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Data bases
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/27/2022 9:16:55 AM (No. 1343225)
Several years ago Florida surpassed two million concealed firearm licenses. Many have been added since then, which is a good thing because of another statistic. In America there are roughly six million people who have been to prison and been paroled or pardoned. Some 1.5 million of these ex-cons have chosen Florida to live. So the ratio of legally armed citizens to ex-cons is positive, but not by as much as one would like. When one is out and about in Florida retail establishments, perhaps more than a tenth of the people around are (surreptitiously) armed. Some with permits don't habitually carry, but most probably do. When I'm out I'm the quintessential "grey man," polite to a fault, mostly unnoticed by others. That's as it should be. It's infuriating to know that some on the political left want to prevent armed self defense by sane, sober, moral American citizens, even knowing that no armed criminal will ever give up his firearms. Nor will the police or the military, which leaves ordinary citizens as the only ones to be disarmed. The Constitution is sacrosanct. The right to self defense against evil force must not be abridged.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slipstik 11/27/2022 10:09:39 AM (No. 1343280)
The very first thing I did after moving out of NJ was get trained for carry, applied for the permit, and I carry everywhere it's legal every day, even in my house. Push in robberies are not uncommon. That's almost 20 years now. BTW, NJ is a great place to be FROM.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 11/27/2022 10:53:33 AM (No. 1343311)
More people are carrying guns because our democrat leaders won't enforce the laws that matter.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/27/2022 12:34:51 PM (No. 1343402)
6,000? That's about the number who carry in my town.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/27/2022 1:36:59 PM (No. 1343456)
One other tiny little factoid about Florida and firearms: If you obtained your permit between 2001 and 2011, the name and signature of Florida's Commissioner of Agriculture, appeared on your Florida permit:
Charles H. Bronson!
It's great to be a Floridian, even if Bronson's name isn't still on the concealed firearm license. Florida is hip.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
CactusStar 11/27/2022 1:49:12 PM (No. 1343463)
Correct #10, someone didn't carry a few decimal's.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/27/2022 3:46:02 PM (No. 1343535)
I have the feeling that the survey did not cover all the young Thugs and Enwords ..... shootings in my area used to be extremely rare, but are becoming more and more common, the overwhelming proportion of the shootings that make the local news are from this segment of society.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chumley 11/27/2022 5:15:51 PM (No. 1343569)
I carry most places. Most of the people I know do. Its no big deal. Normal people arent looking for someone to shoot or an excuse to draw. Nor do they feel compelled to show off their gun. It is carried as a last line of defense when all else fails. Its very good for that.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 11/27/2022 8:24:30 PM (No. 1343654)
I live in a nice small city in Georgia. Quite safe compared to most places. I keep a .38 in my vehicle’s console. I have had a carry permit for years but rarely carried. Now I do. I-75 comes through here and it’s a river of who knows what traveling on it. The old saying...I would rather have it and not need it than not have it and need it.
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