{"id":460736,"date":"2021-04-28T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460736"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T18:17:03","slug":"support-for-gun-control-dropped-after-parkland-shooting-and-continues-to-decline-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/support-for-gun-control-dropped-after-parkland-shooting-and-continues-to-decline-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: The Recent Mass Shootings Have Caused People To Become Pro-2nd-Amendment, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupport-for-gun-control-dropped-after-parkland-shooting-and-continues-to-decline-study-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460736&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden is expected to urge Congress, in his speech to a joint session Wednesday, to pass comprehensive gun control legislation, including \u201ca ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines,\u201d according to USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>Support for comprehensive gun control, according to a new study, has been declining since 2018, after reaching a peak following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida \u2014 and it hit a new low just this week.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/april-18-21-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll\/72d8dab8-8a54-4468-a964-b7326876814d\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">Washington Post reported Wednesday<\/a> that a poll, conducted by the Post in connection with ABC News, found support for gun control at its lowest in years, despite a recent string of highly publicized mass shootings. Support for gun protections, notably, is up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe poll found that 50% of Americans support passing laws to reduce gun violence, down from 57% in 2018. 43% of Americans say the government should prioritize protecting the right to own guns, up from 34% in 2018,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/gun-control-poll-support-falls-parkland-shooting-c52bd467-3273-47f1-9174-30aaa40a7c7c.html\">according to Axios<\/a>. \u201c<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The poll, conducted between April 18 and April 21, comes after a series of mass shootings in the U.S.: one that left eight people dead in several Asian spas in the Atlanta area, another that left eight dead at an Indianapolis FedEx warehouse, and one that killed 10 people in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Americans have shifted noticeably on the issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/28\/support-new-gun-laws-falls-peak-after-parkland-shooting-post-abc-poll-finds\/\">according to the Post\u2019s analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost Americans hold strong views on the issue, but the balance of those views appears to have shifted in the past three years,\u201d the outlet noted. \u201cToday, 42 percent of Americans say that they \u2018strongly\u2019 believe that enacting new laws should be a priority, while 38 percent say they strongly believe that protecting the right to own guns should be prioritized. In 2018, strong support for enacting new laws outpaced strong support for protecting gun rights by 50 percent to 31 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Biden prepares to make gun control legislation a hallmark of his first address to a joint session of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/04\/28\/joe-biden-urge-action-gun-bills-address-congress\/4865622001\/\">USA Today reported Wednesday morning<\/a>, \u201cwill repeat calls for Congress to pass two House bills to strengthen background checks for gun buyers and close the so-called Charleston loophole,\u201d which, the outlet claimed, \u201callows gun sales to proceed without a completed background check if three business days have lapsed.\u201d Biden, who declared gun violence an \u201cepidemic and an international embarrassment\u201d also plans to unveil a series of executive orders aimed at so-called \u201cghost guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news also comes as the Supreme Court prepares to take up its first major gun control case \u2014 a \u201cNational Rifle Association-backed lawsuit asserting the constitutional right to carry a weapon outside the home,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/supreme-court-guns-second-amendment-national-rifle-association\/2021\/04\/26\/83e865c8-a690-11eb-8c1a-56f0cb4ff3b5_story.html\">per the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court will hear the challenge to a century-old New York law in the term that begins in October. The restriction requires those who seek a permit to carry a concealed weapon to show a special need for self-defense and is similar to laws in Maryland, Massachusetts, and elsewhere that the court in the past has declined to review,\u201d the outlet reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Supreme Court opined on gun control was in 2008 when the Court, then with a more liberal makeup than it has now, found that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to gun ownership (<i>District of Columbia v. Heller<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><em>member<\/em><\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is expected to urge Congress, in his speech to a joint session Wednesday, to pass comprehensive gun control legislation, including \u201ca ban on assault weapons and high &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}