Comment by inglor_cz
4 years ago
With all respect, the late '50s and early '60s are a long time ago. I was thinking about more recent developments.
As of today, there is almost half a billion of guns in civilian possession in the US, and the # of open carry and concealed carry jurisdictions has grown massively.
I would say that the lowest point for gun rights US-wide was around the Columbine school shootings, and that the trend changed quite decisively since them. Legislation like that has no chance of passing today.
We were talking about “trending left in the last fifty years”. 1972 was fifty years ago, so I was setting the stage by describing the situation in the preceding decade.