Reply #31: there is a reasonable arguement to be made it came

[bossy22]

from scholars like Dershowitz, Volokh, Chemerinsky...though they were all for a limited reading of the second amendment protections (Except volokh)- but neverless an individual right

this above statement though only refers to the belief of an individual right. The lower statements refer to the gun control consensus

I do not know why support for gun control has decreased- your reasoning may be correct- who knows? I believe it had to do with the end of the crack cocaine epidemic and some "once held believed facts" being overturned

I think the "fact" that more guns creates more violance which was so prevelant in the 1970's and 1980
's started to be questioned. This does not mean that ultimatly this statement may be true but that people started to realize there was more at play than just access to guns. I believe this came with the liberalization of many gun laws such as laws prohibiting concealed carry- and the subsequant non-existant increase in gun violence.