Quote:Thousands rally in Washington DC and across US, calling for stricter gun measures after spate of mass shootings...
It really doesn't matter how many of these anti-gun protests there are
in America, or how vociferous the crowds are, or the worldwide media
coverage they get.
The major—almost sole—stumbling block is the Republicans who back
the NRA in Congress, bolstered by the outdated 2nd Amendment. In
2020, the most recent congressional election, among citizens who voted
for a Republican House member, only 24% of those voters wanted
increased gun control.
A majority in the Senate of 50 Democrats plus, say, a handful of
Republicans could pass some form of gun control. But it wouldn’t pass
the Senate because the filibuster—which allows a small group of
senators to hold up a final vote on a bill unless a three-fifths majority
of senators vote to stop them.
The last time any gun control laws passed in Congress was the 1994
assault weapons ban—which notoriously failed to make any practical
difference. The scientific consensus among criminologists and other
researchers was that the 10-year ban had little to no effect on overall
criminal activity, firearm deaths, or the lethality of gun crimes.
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