Polls: No Lasting Support for Gun Control One Year After Parkland

[Elderberry]

Buckeye Firearms 3/27/2019

Thursday February 14 marked the one year anniversary of the terrible crimes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

It was a somber occasion, but some media outlets couldn’t contain their glee this week that last year’s horror might finally advance the anti-gun agenda. A CNN headlined heralded “A new era on guns.” “After Parkland, everything is different,” Salon gushed.

But a new nationwide poll by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist tells a different story. The News Hour headline summarized the essential point, “A year after Parkland, support sinks for stricter laws on gun sales … .”

Specifically, the percentage of adults favoring stricter laws covering the sale of guns has dropped 20 points since the immediate aftermath of the Parkland killings, to 51%. In contrast, 46% of those surveyed believe such laws should be less strict or kept as they are. The difference between these responses is essentially a statistical tie, given the poll’s margin of error.

As the Washington Post noted with reference to Gallup and Civiq’s dalily tracking polls, “public support for stricter gun laws has returned to pre-Parkland levels.”

More: https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/polls-no-lasting-support-gun-control-one-year-after-parkland

[txradioguy]

This is why there's such a huge push by the Progressives in the first few weeks/months after a mass shooting to get something...anything done to move the ball forward on gun control...the gun grabbers know that after a certain amount of time the people's interest begins to wander elsewhere.