In Republican-controlled states, laws explicitly making it easier to obtain or tote about firearms are more common after a mass shooting has taken place. Reducing or eliminating waiting periods, expanding open or concealed carry, you name it, such laws are apparently easier to get passed when a mass shooting occurs.
Perhaps it’s because folk are scared by what’s happened and feel that MORE GUNS will make everyone safer. Perhaps it’s because folk find the discussion of gun restrictions that tries to start up after such incidents demands instead a counter-response.
Remember that the next time pro-gun folk say, “No, it’s too soon to discuss gun control.” [1] They won’t be sitting around and waiting.
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[1] As the White House has said and others have satirized.
After a Shooting, Gun Laws Are Loosened – The Atlantic
The most probable policy response to the atrocity in Las Vegas will be new laws allowing more guns to be carried into more places.
The gun manufacturers would be delighted to have another Democratic President. Gun sales soared under Obama.
+Dan Eastwood And have dropped so much under Trump (as reflected in the manufacturers' stock prices) that they've had to wangle a deal through the new president to shift oversight of non-military firearms overseas from the State Dept. (which was restrictive to avoid their falling into the wrong hands) to the Commerce Dept. (which promises to increase exports).
I hadn't heard that … handy they have all those Congressmen in their pocket.
It's interesting that with the exception of Florida, the gun laws that have been passed so far have been in states NOT affected by a mass shooting. In essence it's a NIMBY scenario – "if all of us fine folks in Georgia are armed, then a Newton massacre won't take place in OUR backyard."
It's kind of surprising that stadiums were exempted from the Texas university carry law.
There is one potential effect of Las Vegas that was NOT present in Newtown – the fact that police officers (rather than only civilians) were killed.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/off-duty-las-vegas-police-officer-killed-in-mass-shooting/
For self-interest purposes, some (not all) police tend to support gun control, and the NRA may get tagged as "cop killers."
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/446866939/gun-debate-divides-nations-police-officers-too
+Dan Eastwood https://plus.google.com/+DaveHill47/posts/ZeRm78TENpN … and nothing to do with Congress, an administrative action by the Trump Adminstration.