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Even 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
by yoz-y 11y ago
Even 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.