WP: "The NRA Will Fall. It's Inevitable."
The recent deadly shooting at an Oregon community college, like so many before it, isn't likely to lead to new federal laws designed to curb dangerous peoples access to guns. While this understandably frustrates supporters of gun safety legislation, there is reason for them to be hopeful. The National Rifle Associations days of being a political powerhouse may be numbered.
Why? The answer is in the numbers.
Support for, and opposition to, gun control is closely associated with several demographic characteristics, including race, level of education and whether one lives in a city. Nearly all are trending forcefully against the NRA.
The core of the NRAs support comes from white, rural and relatively less educated voters. This demographic is currently influential in politics but clearly on the wane. While the decline of white, rural, less educated Americans is generally well known, less often recognized is what this means for gun legislation.
Polls show that whites tend to favor gun rights over gun control by a significant margin (57 percent to 40 percent). Yet whites, who comprise 63 percent of the population today, wont be in the majority for long. Racial minorities are soon to be a majority, and they are the nations strongest supporters of strict gun laws.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/19/the-nra-will-fall-its-inevitable/
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)if you own a gun you are part of the problem, not the solution!
villager
(26,001 posts)...as any other kind of fundamentalism that corrodes an open, pluralistic society...
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)LonePirate
(13,431 posts)It perfectly describes the insane gun culture in this country. The NRA's demise cannot happen soon enough.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Gun ownership has declined from above 50% of households to 34% between 1977 and 2014. Younger urban people aren't all that into guns.
The NRA knew this years ago and have tried to market to millennials and women with very marginal success. They can't really market to minorities because the old white men who belong to the NRA don't like minorities. (That's the nicest way I could say that a bunch of them are racists.)
Their doomed not because of us, but because of who they are.
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)The NRA as far as I m concerned is responsible for 10k murders a year!
You can get a free pocket knife if you join for a year, according to the ad I get on this page.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)and will be for some time.
It will be a very, very, very long time before the gun culture in all of the small population states out west and down south can be overcome.