Defeatism undermines tougher gun laws
Alec MacGillis
... Barely had the death toll of 17 been announced .. than The Washington Post declared, “The gun debate is going nowhere quickly after Parkland." CNN offered: "Amid continued string of mass shootings, gun control going nowhere in Congress." After 59 concert-goers were mowed down in October, former Democratic congressman Steve Israel put to rest any hope for reform in a .. column titled "Nothing Will Change After the Las Vegas Shooting" ...
... this world-weary defeatism is self-fulfilling ...
,,, such pessimism demoralizes, and dismisses, those who are motivated to fight against gun violence ...
... it lets off the hook those who are opposed to stronger gun laws. Declaring preemptively that any new effort at gun-law reform is doomed spares opponents from even having to make their arguments for protecting the gun lobby ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/analysis-how-defeatism-undermines-tougher-gun-laws
