TSA announced today that it confiscated a record number of firearms at airport checkpoints in 2022. TSA discovered 6,542 firearms in 2022 compared to 5,972 in 2021.
But wait! There were a lot more people flying in 2022 than in 2021. Let's look at firearm confiscations per passenger:
So 2022 wasn't really a record, just an increase due to more people flying. In fact, the only interesting thing about this chart is the enormous uptick following the start of the pandemic in 2020.
At first you might think 2020 is a special case because air traffic plunged that year. But the firearm confiscation rate stayed high in 2021 and then dropped only a little bit in 2022.
You know what this reminds me of? Murder rates:
The only thing these two trendlines have in common is guns. Here's the number of firearm background checks conducted each year. It's generally considered a good proxy for the number of firearms sold:
Gun sales rose sharply in 2020. The murder rate rose sharply in 2020. TSA gun confiscations rose sharply in 2020. What other gun-related statistics might follow the same pattern?
People who have guns have all sorts of attitude built in surrounding the gun and how they handle it. If you don't share that attitude they'll be flipped, because, they want to say, they think it's unsafe, and yet they don't have that same attitude toward knives or cars or fireworks or anything else.
It's all sublimated panic, anxiety and blustering machismo and nothing else, and the gun is a focus for all that, and if you lack that attitude and manner you're highlighting their panic disorder, and that panics them still more.
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The robobot is developing sentience?
THAT is weird.
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I don't know any of those people, and I have a good number of "gun nut" acquaintences. They focus on reloading experiments, acquiring vintage weapons, and sometimes hunting. Not a whiff of your "sublimated panic, anxiety and blustering machismo". Nor are they obsessed with the size of their dicks.
You're raving at a strawman, ser.
Anti-tank weapon seized from passenger’s baggage at Texas airport : A bazooka-like weapon powerful enough to take down a military tank was seized from a passenger’s checked baggage in Texas because the traveler had failed to declare the weapon to authorities, the Transportation Security Administration said.
My sense is the surfeit of guns in America—driven by every more exotic interpretations of the second amendment—is largely what's driven the uptick in murders since 2015 or so. By that time the effects of environmental lead mitigation would have largely ended, of course, so we'd no longer expect to get relief from that factor. But I don't think the bottoming out of that effect should have led to an increase in gun deaths.
Suicides? Most gun-related deaths in the US are suicides.
Yup just over half.
Its unclear to me why our 2nd ammendment rights don't apply to the friendly skys, or why SCOTUS han't done anything about our unfettered right to bare arms when flying. You just never know when a good guy with a gun will be needed to shoot some bad guy at 35,000 feet. What could possibly go wrong?
Happiness is a warm gun after all!
I've seen people on planes with with bare arms. No problem.
My hypothesis: People freaked out about COVID, thought the world was ending, and wanted guns for the apocalypse. Who hasn't watched the Walking Dead?
KD:
A Democrat hell-bent on seizing all our gunz was elected in 2020. So we had to buy, buy, buy before the jackbooted Federal thugs came after ‘em, doncha know!
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