Opinion: Gun reform doesn’t happen because Americans don’t want it enough
A makeshift memorial is seen on Feb. 19, 2018, outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. By Robert Gebelhoff Robert Gebelhoff Opinions contributor focusing on health, science and public policy. Email Bio Follow Assistant editor and Opinions contributor March 4 at 3:03 PM The gun-reform bills the House passed last week are likely not going to pass the Senate. And even if they do, the president won’t sign them.
This might be counterintuitive, considering the thousands of people who marched in Washington last year to demand action. By that standard, the response from the Republican-controlled government might have felt baffling. The marchers were met with months of nothing. No hearings in Congress. No legislation. No conversation.
If there’s one thing that highly organized activist groups such as the gun rights crowd have learned, it’s that they don’t have to outwit the general public. They need only to outlast it.
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