Timeline for Why is there no effective anti-gun lobby in the United States?
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| Apr 8 at 14:15 | comment | added | Stuart F | "Because not owning a gun isn't a big deal." There are hypotheticals or things that don't appear to have a direct effect, but the same thing could be said of causes like environmentalism or anti-abortion activism. And 1980s campaigns to prevent children having access to violent video games (and hence shooting people) were successful even if preventing adults getting access to guns (and hence shooting people) were not. | |
| May 31, 2018 at 21:42 | comment | added | Just Some Old Man | I love the realism in this answer. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 16:47 | comment | added | user9389 | @James_pic I'm not clear that the UK has much more anti-gun politicking, but it certainly has much less pro-gun politicking. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 15:52 | comment | added | James_pic | Whilst this makes intuitive sense, it seems like it would be equally applicable in countries like the UK, that have sharply tightened gun ownership regulations in recent years. Is there a US-specific aspect to this? | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 21:54 | comment | added | Freiheit | A more casual way to express this might be that no one went to the anti-gun range to not shoot at targets to practice going to Arbys this weekend. Lots of people went to the gun range to shoot at targets to get ready for deer season. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 16:53 | comment | added | user9389 | @Obie2.0 That's well said and very close to what I was trying to covey with the closing paragraph. If you want to make an edit to make it clearer or more correct I will approve it. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 16:42 | comment | added | chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic- | @user4012 You're probably looking for the concept of a concentrated benefit. | |
| Nov 9, 2017 at 3:07 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | The truth is that despite a philosophical opposition to widespread, most people really aren’t scared of them. The vast majority of people will take little action until something promises to personally disrupt their lives. Gun control efforts do personally disrupt the lives of many gun owners, though, so they are scared of them (occasionally to non-factual extremes). | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 22:05 | comment | added | user1530 | Right. I think we're in agreement. There may be individuals that want X, but as a society, we have no strong desire for X, hence no such push for it at that level. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 22:04 | comment | added | user9389 | @blip that is a little stronger than I would contend. I think there is a fair amount of desire to ban guns especially in the coastal cities, but I suggest it is spread over enough people that it rounds to almost nothing. People saying "there oughta be a law" and going on to the next thing isn't how laws get made here. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | user1530 | Agreed. There isn't an anti-gun lobby because there isn't a desire for one. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 20:51 | comment | added | user4012 | There's a poly sci term for what you're describing (i'm spazzing out on what it is at the moment, ironically :( | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 19:43 | comment | added | user285 | Seems reasonable. | |
| Nov 8, 2017 at 19:26 | history | answered | user9389 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |