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My friend and colleague Dave Workman \u2013 such a solid resource that I find myself linking to his stuff more often in this blog than any other source \u2013 observes that some 15,000 new concealed carry permits were processed last month in his home state of Washington alone. The list of permit holders increased by more than 60,000 there since May of 2012. http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/cpl-figure-skyrockets-15k-a-single-month<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brother Workman quotes another outstanding source of solid information, Howard Nemerov of PJ Media, who in turn cites a recent Gallup poll showing that 47% of American adults have firearms at home. http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/waning-gun-culture-u-s-may-be-myth?cid=db_articles<\/a> .\u00a0 Sounds like a pretty substantial \u201cminority\u201d to me.<\/p>\n Obviously, density of gun ownership is a regional thing. You\u2019ll have fewer guns in Manhattan high-rises, and more in rural farmhouses and on Western ranches, where guns are working tools as well as self-defense implements.<\/p>\n And, let us not forget, a whole lot of folks don\u2019t want to tell strangers that they have guns, whether or not the stranger has identified himself or herself as a pollster. The media has, for decades, stigmatized gun owners. Besides, who wants to announce having in their house one of the very few things besides prescription drugs that thieves can peddle in the underworld for more than their intrinsic value, instead of pennies on the dollar?<\/p>\n We aren\u2019t an overwhelming national majority, but we sure aren\u2019t the weak and fading shadow the Prohibitionists wish we were.<\/p>\n
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