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.
Something will eventually change. The question is how many people will get hurt before it does.
If Sandy Hook didn’t change things, why would anything else?
There is no upper limit as to how many have to die first. If there were, we would have reached it years ago. Things will change, for the worse. The biggest and most horrific mass shooting this year, is still about to happen. And it will only continue and continue and continue until at last, only the most sadistic monster with the biggest gun is left standing and the rest of the world has become a cemetery.