There ARE still a lot of people killed by ‘gun violence’ in America….
We still see stories of random shooting across the country…
While the media may cry out for legislative action?
Democrats mumble about gun control…
But smart ones do NOT run strongly on it….
Why?
Because no matter how many people get shot?
Americans continue to have a ‘culture’ of guns….
In the wake of the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a new generation of teen activists emerged who insisted that the old boom/bust cycle of gun control politics in this country was no more.
Gone would be the public’s short attention span on the need for more restrictions on gun sales and gun ownership. And in its place would be a sustained campaign to keep the issues of guns — and the mass shootings committed with them — front and center in the public’s mind.
Almost four years on from Parkland, however, a familiar cycle has asserted itself.
Just 52% of Americans polled now say that the “laws covering the sales of firearms” should be stricter than they currently are, the lowest number that Gallup has measured on the question since 2014….
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While the Democratic-led House passed two measures to strengthen background checks, the Senate is not expected to act on either one.
Meanwhile, Americans are buying more guns than ever before. In 2020, nearly 23 million guns were bought — a record. That surge has continued through 2021.
And, there has been no letup in mass shootings either. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 638 mass shootings so far in 2021. (The site defines a mass shooting as one with 4 or more victims, either injured or killed, not including the gunman.)
So, what happened? It appears that after an extended period of time in which the public was supportive of more strict gun laws, the old political rules of the gun debate have reasserted themselves.
A new Quinnipiac poll also out this week finds registered voters split 47% to 48% between supporting stricter gun laws and opposing them….