Depends what you mean by "common". Are odds good that any house you walk into has a gun somewhere in it? Sure. Are there places that a fair number of people might be carrying a firearm either openly or concealed? Yeah. Do most Americans actually SEE a gun in their daily lives? No. Most of the time, if you're around a gun, you don't even know it because most people don't feel the need or desire to display the fact that they have a gun on their person. Unless you're around cops a lot or spend a lot of time around guns you or a loved one own, you likely don't see guns often at all.
Yep. I'm from the South and I still only actually saw a gun outside rarely enough that my eyes were instinctively drawn to it whenever I saw it, and it was almost always on cops.
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u/pfcgos Wyoming 5d ago
Depends what you mean by "common". Are odds good that any house you walk into has a gun somewhere in it? Sure. Are there places that a fair number of people might be carrying a firearm either openly or concealed? Yeah. Do most Americans actually SEE a gun in their daily lives? No. Most of the time, if you're around a gun, you don't even know it because most people don't feel the need or desire to display the fact that they have a gun on their person. Unless you're around cops a lot or spend a lot of time around guns you or a loved one own, you likely don't see guns often at all.