Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor and even Republicans are close to evenly split in a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.
Half of Americans say that members of Congress should take action to reduce mass shootings, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds, while just one-third say that shootings cannot be reduced through legislation. By an even broader margin, 60% to 25%, Americans say it’s possible to enact new gun regulations while still maintaining the right to bear arms.
Exact levels of support, of course, will vary with the framing of the questions used by the polls. But background checks are nearly universally popular, even in polls that aren’t taken in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting. And as The Washington Post’s polling director, Scott Clement, points out, most other polling in the past few years finds at least 50% support for banning assault-style weapons. Here's my tally of recent polls measuring support for an assault weapons ban.
The ups and downs around mass shootings aside, as FiveThirtyEight’s Nathaniel Rakich notes, some polling also suggests that baseline support for gun control is rebounding. Gallup polling, for instance, finds that, even months after the Parkland shooting, about 61% of Americans supported stricter firearms laws, up from a nadir of 44% in 2010. Tracking data from the Democratic pollster Civiqs also finds that voters’ support for gun control is up nearly 10 points since 2015.
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