Vox: Support For Gun Control Waning

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gunners have been emboldened in the last year, and it’s not surprising in the least. They had the media pushing their narrative, they had bodies to use as a soapbox, they had everything they could want.

And they’ve made the most of it. Anti-gunners have pushed for gun control laws all over the nation, winning some important victories from their point of view.

But, all things must come to an end, and their post-Parkland bump is such an example.

It’s not just the pro-gun media saying that, either. No, this is coming from Vox.

A year after a gunman in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the urgency for gun control among the American public is waning.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that 51 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws in the United States. While that’s still a slim majority, it’s a significant drop from when the same poll was conducted last year, soon after the Parkland shooting, when 71 percent of Americans said gun laws should be tightened.

Forty-two percent of Americans believe that stricter gun legislation should be an immediate priority …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms