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Have you ever accidentally brought a bottle of shampoo or scissors? You are vastly underestimating how common it is to have a gun in some parts of the country.
by hueving 11y ago
Have you ever accidentally brought a bottle of shampoo or scissors? You are vastly underestimating how common it is to have a gun in some parts of the country. It is just an everyday item like anything else to some people.
- yoz-y 11y agoEven though understandable this does not explain the rising numbers. We do not know whether they are normalised or simply due to the fact that more people have guns, but it could be a trend. Also, the whole point of airport security is to find weapons, so it is also reasonable to think that people would be more cautious about accidentally bringing a gun rather than a shampoo bottle (which you can actually bring if it is small enough).
- vijayr 11y agoAre we sure the numbers are rising? Maybe airport security just got better at detecting guns in the recent years?
- yoz-y 11y agoThat is of course also a possibility.
- amelius 11y agoSome other options: people started traveling more; people are carrying guns more; people have become more absent-minded (smartphones?)
- wil421 11y agoThis could be the case, every year or so I see headlines where the TSA failed to find a gun during a test by their own people. Last time I flew it was almost mandatory to go through the body scanner. The time before that it was only every 10 people or so.
- swiley 11y agoThe number of gun owners has been rising for a while now.
- hga 11y agoConcealed carry license holders are skyrocketing, as are states where no license is required (details on request). It's a truly amazing phenomena, no doubt part of the re-normalization of carrying guns (saw my first open carrier at Wal-Mart yesterday, that's newly allowed in Missouri as of a year or so), and the graying of America (a large majority of the people taking my Missouri required concealed carry class were older sorts). But if you're e.g. reading this from California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, etc. vs. the 43 states with shall issue or better concealed carry regiemes, you could easily know little to nothing about it.
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoIt didn't strike me how common concealed carry was until a friend was giving me a ride in his Jag to pickup my car at the shop. I had to move his carry permit off the seat and it occurred to me that after knowing him for 15 years, he had never mentioned guns a single time. You're right: most people simply don't mention it. In most of the US, guns are simply not a big deal.
- anu_gupta 11y agoShampoo isn't very similar to a gun. I can't find any stats, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people killed by aggressive use of shampoo was close to zero.
- flatline 11y agoYou can't find any stats because the shampoo lobby has suppressed all shampoo death-related research... A friend of mine tried to bring his gun through security. He had it in an outside pocket of his duffel bag and just forgot it was there. It's just another thing that you carry around with you. It seems lost on some people that these are deadly weapons and it may be good to treat them with a modicum of extra respect. It never occurs to my friend that someone could take his bag, discover the gun, and kill someone with it, even though he never would. That it could be a kid that shoots themselves or someone else in complete innocence. My friend is indeed absent-minded but I don't think that covers it fully. It is a certain mindset, and a fairly prevalent one especially in the South.
- surge 11y agoSee, I wouldn't leave a gun in a bag, I'd always have it on my person. Someone can snatch or go through my bag, or my bag might not be nearby. I see that as kind of irresponsible handling.
- 01Michael10 11y agoSorry, if you are as causal with your guns as your shampoo you are NOT qualified to be carrying said guns.
- hga 11y agoAnd you base your opinion on...? One clarification request: loaded if revolver, round in chamber otherwise?
- 01Michael10 11y agoMy opinion is based on I have a working brain.
- hueving 11y agoIt wouldn't seem it functions very well if it doesn't understand the perspective of people that carry guns every day.
- 01Michael10 11y agoWTF? Dude, if you can't account for your gun(s) at all times or be aware you are carrying one then you are not adult enough to have said guns. Period! End of discussion.
- hueving 11y agoSee, you fail to understand perspective. I know people with hundreds of guns that hunt all of the time. They keep them in their personal bags, coats, etc. Those are all safe places to leave guns when you have no children and don't share a home with people you don't trust.
- jessaustin 11y agoYeah I don't think the instructors for the CCW classes I've taken would be very happy with the "shucks I just forgot" explanation. I'm thinking of one instructor in particular (who is also a sheriff's deputy and family friend) who would have probably physically removed me from my chair for suggesting that kind of bullshit. Carrying requires a different mindset, and that mindset doesn't admit the sort of forgetfulness under consideration here. That's the main reason why I usually don't carry.