Survey: Majority Fear Mass Shooting In Their Community, Favors Gun Control

By Tom Knighton

Every Bearing Arms reader knows the constitutional arguments against gun control. The plain text of the constitution makes it clear that gun control shouldn’t hold up to legal scrutiny. It does, somehow, but it shouldn’t. We all know why, too.

But the majority of Americans aren’t worried about those arguments. They accept that gun control is constitutional on some level. For better or worse, those are the people who have to be convinced otherwise. Those are the hearts and minds we have to win.

Unfortunately, those same people are outright terrified that a mass shooting is going to happen in their community.

With six in 10 worried about a mass shooting in their community, Americans by a 17-point margin express confidence that stricter gun control laws would reduce such incidents, and even more endorse improved mental health monitoring and treatment to that end.

Two measures, specifically, remain overwhelmingly popular: Eighty-nine percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support background checks for all gun purchases, including private and gun show sales; and 86 percent back “red flag” laws allowing the police to take guns from individuals found by a judge to be a danger.

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Source:: Bearing Arms