Does a mass shooting in someone’s community change people’s minds?

The way I see it, when mass shootings happen in Republican areas usually nothing changes and you don’t hear much from the families or community. Sandy Hook Elementary in CT, and Stoneman High School in Parkland, FL, were in Democratic areas and you heard some activism happening from affected families.

In Florida, Republicans actually came together with Democrats immediately following the shooting and passed some legislation on gun laws, but my point is the families and students pushed hard when it happened, they were very vocal, but they were already probably for tighter gun laws to begin with.

Sandy Hook families still speak out, probably because the QAnon right was so incredibly horrible to them.

I know Nashville is more liberal than the rest of the state, but the Christian school where the latest school shooting happened is probably more than 90% Republican if I had to guess. I doubt anything will change there, and I haven’t heard of any of the families who have children attending there speaking out.

My point is, it doesn’t seem to me that a shooting, even a shooting of their own children, changes the minds of most people on the issue.