The findings also reveal a relationship between media coverage of mass shootings and resulting legislative action.
Though mass shootings earn a disproportionate share of media coverage when compared with everyday gun violence, the attention bestowed by the media"is correlated with the number of gun bills introduced" in the year following a mass shooting.
While the laws were devised and signed well before the shootings took place, they serve as a reminder of how many states are continuing to proceed with their prescribed agenda for gun reform as incidents of mass violence unfold around them. Even without the August shootings as preceding factors, Texas endured a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in 2018 and a historically deadly mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs church in 2017.
"We have learned many times over that there is no such thing as a gun-free zone. Those with evil intentions will violate the law and carry out their heinous acts no matter what," Texas State Senator Donna Campbell said in a press release in January."It makes no sense to disarm the good guys and leave law-abiding citizens defenseless where violent offenders break the law to do great harm.
Since 2013, support for a nationwide assault weapons ban, such as was in effect for most of the 1990s, has steadily risen, peaking at 67 percent of registered voters in early 2018 and dropping slightly over the following year, according to Quinnipiac University's frequent public opinion surveys.
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