“When Gallup first asked Americans this question some 50 years ago, 60 percent favored banning handguns...”
This number would include the so-called Greatest Generation, and their parents who voted overwhelmingly for the fascist FDR.
We have made progress and will make more.
I hope and pray that you're right. The main thing that dampens my otherwise hopeful outlook on the issue is that the corrupt government thugs who run both Chicago and the D.C. are flipping a bird to the Supremes by simply writing new and equally restrictive gun laws that for all practical purposes simply re-install the old gun laws that the Court declared unconstitutional.
I recently watched a TV report by a female reporter who has been trying for almost a year to legally acquire a handgun in the D.C. under the "new and improved" gun laws of that city. She still doesn't have a gun, and it appears likely that she never will unless the Court cracks down on the government thugs who are determined to keep handgun possession illegal in that city.
Confine them to their State and ban them from living and voting among freemen.
In an ideal world this would be done simply by means of State constitutional amendment strictly limiting the States power. But such a world can only exist if the Federal Goverment is domestically all but powerless as it was founded to be.
The Sad truth is it may be that the only way to secure to ourselfs and our posterity the blessings of freedom is to separate from theses people completely so that there be no common lawless goverment over which their vote might weld power to oppress us.