Support For Gun Control Drops From Post-Parkland Spike

By Tom Knighton

Following the Parkland massacre, the nation was crowing for gun control. I said then that it would come down soon enough. All we had to do was wait it out.

And then it continued.

For two months now, the pressure has been maintained, far longer than anyone expected it to last. Give the Parkland crowd credit, they kept the shooting in the news cycle for far longer than it should have been, thus keeping sympathy for gun control measures up.

Now, it seems, reality is coming into play, and all that pro-gun support? It’s not what it used to be.

Public support for more stringent gun-control legislation has decreased significantly after surging in the wake of the February mass shooting that claimed 17 lives in Parkland, Fla., according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

The number of respondents who support “stricter gun control laws” has fallen ten percentage points after peaking at 66 percent on February 20, just six days after the Parkland massacre.

A ten point drop is significant, and while the Parkland kids still have a pretty favorable rating, it doesn’t really matter if fewer people are supporting their positions.

Anti-gunners will call this apathy, but the reality …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms