It would be interesting to know exactly how many people are actually “carrying concealed” when out in public.
How many would you guess? 1 in 10, 50, 100, 300, etc.
Any REAL, TRUTHFUL statistics out there?
We were in IKEA yesterday and I had my gun concealed and wife had hers in her purse. IKEA said it was a gun free zone, but they didn’t know we had guns with us...
“Any REAL, TRUTHFUL statistics out there?”
I don’t know of any real research, but ballpark cyphering can be done. VA has about 400,000 CHP holders, with an adult population of about 4,000,000. Taking into account that not every one of us carries all the time, most carriers are men, and northern Virginia is bluer(although with more security-related employees), I’d figure about 1:15 - 1:25 men are armed here in northern Virginia. Anecdotal observations of sloppily concealed weapons at WalMart back my guess up.