Why do efforts to reform U.S. firearm sales always fail after mass shootings?

The reason that people don&#x27;t support bans on guns isn&#x27;t that they don&#x27;t think mass shootings might happen, so mass shootings happening don&#x27;t change their opinion on whether guns should be banned.<p>A mass shooting happening doesn&#x27;t really change anybody&#x27;s calculus. The people who want to ban guns have wanted to ban guns well before [latest event], and the people who don&#x27;t aren&#x27;t persuaded by [latest event]. [latest event], however tragic, is rarely materially different from what has come before.

The US has a large subset of the population who strongly believe that civilian gun ownership is an effective deterrent to government tyranny. Whether this is true in fact is irrelevant, the perception is what matters. These people are not ever going to be convinced by body count, because their highest ideal is the idea of liberty.

A persistent and significant portion of the nation believes that firearms are an integral defense against tyranny and promised right from the constitutional amendments.

Oh look, a gun thread. There must have been another mass shooting in the US. Let&#x27;s all spend some time together and learn once again why gun violence in the US isn&#x27;t a problem, it&#x27;s a solution, and the problem is liberals and leftists wanting to take away people&#x27;s guns.