Recent polling suggests that Americans are very worried about gun violence. A Quinnipiac University poll taken from Oct. 26 to 30, right after the Maine shooting, found that 46 percent of registered voters worried about becoming a victim of a mass shooting themselves. That matches a high set in July 2022 in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, shooting at Robb Elementary School, and is 9 points higher than a low of 37 percent in December 2017, the year the survey began asking the question.
Americans also feel pessimistic that anything will change. Indeed, 68 percent don’t believe the federal government will do anything to reduce gun violence within the next year, per the Quinnipiac poll.
Not if you have anything to do about it, surely.
Those atrocities occurred after the groups to be victimized were disarmed: Jews, Russian people, Chinese people. The American War of Independence was started when the British army attempted to confiscate weapons.
There really is no legitimate reason for a government to disarm its citizens.