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The Massacre In Charleston Is Unlikely To Lead To Gun Control Legislation | FiveThirtyEight

"Americans have turned against gun control over the past 25 years. We can see this clearly in Gallup’s data since 1990 and the Pew Research Center’s data since late 1993."

Furthermore, for better or for worse, the comparison to “other advanced countries” (Obama made it in remarks the other day) is specious because those other countries don’t have our Second Amendment, which tends to make gun control legislation (and we have lots of gun control laws at every level of government) pretty toothless in the end. So unless there are changes made to the constitution or to the courts’ interpretation thereof (pretty difficult to imagine) we are going to have more than our share of gun tragedies (or, possibly, in view of the Constitution, exactly our share of gun tragedies) in the U.S. pretty much forever.