And, regardless of how they personally feel about the subject, just 40 percent now think passing new gun laws is politically possible, down from 50 percent. Similarly, tracking data from the progressive pollster Civiqs showed voters’ support for gun control spiking after Parkland, but then slowly declining. Their advocacy kept the debate over gun laws in the news, even after the immediate details of the shooting had faded. In largely rural Santa Fe, last week’s shooting didn’t spark the same kind of push for gun control. So it doesn’t matter.”Gun restrictions proposed in the wake of the Parkland shooting, meanwhile, remain broadly popular, according to the HuffPost/YouGov poll.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2018 16:41 UTC