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Number of Americans Carrying Guns Daily Jumps to at Least 6 Million
Breitbart ^ | 11/26/2022 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 11/26/2022 10:43:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The number of Americans who leave their homes with a pistol or revolver on their person jumped from approximately three million in 2015 to six million in 2019, according to a study conducted by University of Washington researchers.

The Guardian reported the study on November 25, 2022, noting that it appeared in the American Journal of Public Health.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: americans; banglist; carrying; daily; guns
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To: MeganC

I have the Citizen app on my phone. Several times a week I see a notice that the police are responding to a call that a man has a gun. Carrying a gun is legal in NC.

I was someone walking beside the road with a pistol in his hand. It looked like he was trained in how to do so safely. I waved and went on.


41 posted on 11/26/2022 1:50:01 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: roving
When the purge law in IL takes effect, I may become a conceal carry. Its going to be every person for themselves

Don't say "may become". Just do it.

42 posted on 11/26/2022 1:53:59 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: MeganC
You should carry at home too.

I was about to make that very point. I'm sitting in my living room with my 9 mm in my pocket.

43 posted on 11/26/2022 1:56:58 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: robowombat
He would have had a fit had she told him.

If you carry, don't tell anyone. If anything happens, better to do 6 rather than be carried by 6. As an I.T. manager, I suspected some of my crew carried but never inquired. I questioned some as to why they wanted to go to sites in pairs when only one tech was necessary to do the job. They invited me to come along. At a site, with angry young blacks milling around, my worker said to me "Your job is to watch my back as I get the equipment out of the van into the worksite.". My worker was a young tough black guy who lived in the ghetto. I was in a suit, and quickly understood why one would want to carry protection. After that, I allowed them to go out in pairs without questioning.

44 posted on 11/26/2022 2:01:01 PM PST by roadcat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m one of them. And yes, I carry into Shitcago, violating Metra handgun bans and my employers ban as well. There’s a reason it’s called conceal-carry. If someone sees it, you ain’t doing it right.


45 posted on 11/26/2022 2:05:49 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I carried a gun for a couple of years in NYC. Of course, they’re only counting the people who do so legally, so I wasn’t part of any statistics.


46 posted on 11/26/2022 2:42:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

with a pistol or revolver

Wait, all of a sudden a revolver can’t also be a pistol?


47 posted on 11/26/2022 2:43:04 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: no-to-illegals

“Little secret : the number carrying away from home is much much higher.”

I think you are right.


48 posted on 11/26/2022 3:57:40 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: no-to-illegals

Yup; nobody has ever asked me if I carry, wouldn’t tell if they did!


49 posted on 11/26/2022 11:43:14 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: Billthedrill

You just don’t have enough “WHITE PRIVILEGE”.


50 posted on 11/26/2022 11:47:07 PM PST by 5th MEB
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Considering half the states in the country now have Constitutional Carry, I’d bet the number who carry every day is considerably higher than 6 million. I’m one of them.


51 posted on 11/27/2022 3:29:58 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: MeganC

If that boating accident hadn’t happened but I do know where the boat sank


52 posted on 11/27/2022 4:51:48 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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53 posted on 11/27/2022 6:42:57 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: metmom

Ya thank!?


54 posted on 11/27/2022 7:39:55 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Bad neighborhoods are likely a short car ride away. They can come to you.


55 posted on 11/27/2022 7:41:02 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
That's the number of people carrying guns and publicly admitting it. The number actually carrying guns is probably much higher

CC

56 posted on 11/27/2022 5:41:35 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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