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The number of U.S. adult handgun owners carrying a loaded handgun on their person doubled from 2015 to 2019, according to new research led by the University of Washington.

Data come from the 2019 National Firearms Survey (NFS), an online survey of U.S. adults living in households with firearms, including nearly 2,400 handgun owners. Compared to estimates from prior UW-led research, the new study suggests that in 2019 approximately 16 million adult handgun owners had carried a loaded handgun on their person in the past month (up from 9 million in 2015) and 6 million carried every day (twice as many as carried daily in 2015).

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"Between increases in the number of people who own handguns and the number of people who carry every day, there has been a striking increase in handgun carrying in the U.S.," said lead author Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, a professor of epidemiology and Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the UW.

Among the other findings reported in the new study:

• About 7 in 10 handgun owners said they carried a loaded handgun as protection against another person, dwarfing the number who said they carried as protection against an animal, for example, or for work
• 4 in 5 handgun owners who reported carrying were male, 3 in 4 were white, and a majority were between the ages of 18 and 44

Holland&Holland wrote:Blood must be running in the streets.

Holland&Holland wrote:Blood must be running in the streets.

Rip Van Winkle wrote:

Holland&Holland wrote:Blood must be running in the streets.

And bodies stacked like cordwood.

sansooshooter wrote:I hope this means those people are politically active in gun rights too.

Holland&Holland wrote:

sansooshooter wrote:I hope this means those people are politically active in gun rights too.

Good luck with that.

sansooshooter wrote:I should have put that as sarcasm. I am very doubtful of retaining our rights. In pretty much every aspect of our lives. Thanks to the political apathy of most people!

jdege wrote:

sansooshooter wrote:I should have put that as sarcasm. I am very doubtful of retaining our rights. In pretty much every aspect of our lives. Thanks to the political apathy of most people!

I am very much in favor of a political system in which apathy is a rational choice. Where none of the alternatives considered on any political question have much impact on most citizen's lives.

Do you really care which politician is being paid off by which solid waste collection company, so long as your garbage is collected at a reasonable cost?

I don't even expect honesty from politicians, so long as their graft is on a level that doesn't inconvenience me.

Deep down, I'm a libertarian, where the government does little of consequences and I'm free to hate both parties equally.

But we're so far away from that ideal that it's scary...