{"id":1753162,"date":"2022-11-28T06:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753162"},"modified":"2022-11-28T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:03:11","slug":"number-of-handgun-owners-carrying-daily-has-doubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/number-of-handgun-owners-carrying-daily-has-doubled\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of Handgun Owners Carrying Daily Has Doubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnumber-of-handgun-owners-carrying-daily-has-doubled%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753162&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/d8c3308f-1e2a-4bba-af56-1139a3209cbe.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Americans feel less safe under President Joe Biden, and thanks to soft-on-crime woke cities, crime has surged during the last two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Biden continues to threaten the Second Amendment, Americans are taking their safety into their hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to a new\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/ajph.aphapublications.org\/doi\/10.2105\/AJPH.2022.307094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0by the University of Washington, the number of U.S. adult handgun owners carrying daily nearly doubled in four years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The November 16 study found that 6 million adults carried a firearm on themselves in 2019, which is up by 3 million in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Self-protection was cited as the main reason for the uptick in gun holders, with seven out of 10 saying that they carry a gun to protect themselves against other people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, only 9 million people reported carrying a handgun. Now, at least 16 million people say they carry a loaded weapon on them at least once a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The total number of Americans owning handguns spiked from 38 million to 53 million in just a few short years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Biden called to ban assault rifles, claiming that it is \u201cridiculous\u201d red flag laws are not being enforced throughout the country. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is going to attempt to pass a bill on the matter during Congress\u2019 lame-duck session, right before Republicans take over the House, which they would most likely veto any sort of gun restricting laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Americans have heard time and time again from Democrats how more gun laws need to be enacted. Calling it \u201csick\u201d that semi-automatic weapons are still allowed, Biden has zeroed in on trying to \u201cget rid of assault weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla) criticized the Left\u2019s constant push to take away guns from law-abiding citizens, and instead offered another piece of advice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cPeople are doing the right thing, why would we take away their weapons?\u201d Scott asked as the Senate was negotiating gun legislation last year, adding \u201cit doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said that mental health counseling and assessments of troubled students and law enforcement would make more sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans feel less safe under President Joe Biden, and thanks to soft-on-crime woke cities, crime has surged during the last two years.\u00a0As Biden continues to threaten the Second Amendment,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}