There is no good reason for members of the public to have assault weapons yet Republicans will prevent them from being banned.
Poll finds 2/3 of Americans support banning assault weapons including a 56% majority of households with a gun in it. Pew found very similar results last year. https://t.co/eqNjLJgqG7
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 26, 2022
@politico poll didn’t break out gun owners by party but Pew found majorities of even Republican gun owners backed ban on assault weapons & high capacity magazines & supported universal background checks. GOP gun owners were only group opposed-but filibuster gives them a veto https://t.co/UaDDf6wh16
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 26, 2022
The overwhelming majority of Americans support some restrictions on firearms, polls show, but Republican lawmakers fear they would pay a steep political price for embracing them, our correspondent Carl Hulse writes. https://t.co/qfC3tAgUV5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 26, 2022
“Significant majorities of Americans support background checks (81 percent), an assault-weapons ban (63 percent) & a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines (64 percent).”@RonBrownstein: Majority rule is blocked by the anti-majoritarian Senate, the filibuster & the GOP. https://t.co/nxfMXHBGf3
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) May 26, 2022
Politico-Morning Consult poll:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 27, 2022
Requiring background checks on all gun sales: 88% strongly or somewhat support
Creating a national database with info about each gun sale: 75% support
Banning assault-style weapons: 67% support
A recent CBS News poll found 54% of Americans want laws covering the sale of guns made more strict. Thirty percent said gun laws should be kept as they are, and 16% want them to be less strict. https://t.co/YSddt0cBFS
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 25, 2022
An overwhelming majority of Americans, 88%, questioned in a poll conducted one day after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas supports background checks on all gun sales. https://t.co/7EZi9aJWtO
— Gary Dunavant (@Garybham) May 27, 2022
The number of Americans who think the U.S. should “make gun laws more strict” (47%) is three times higher than the number who think the U.S. should “make gun laws less strict” (14%), according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. https://t.co/kFNfEEdom7
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) May 25, 2022
People who want stricter gun laws dramatically outnumber people who want laxer rules, which generates the anti-gun sentiment we see in the discourse.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 29, 2022
But 41% of the public are happy with the status quo. pic.twitter.com/2PlvgoPOo5
What the numbers show on Americans' opinions of gun control measures: https://t.co/VrKKE2Lg12 pic.twitter.com/1LOSYJw4nT
— ABC News (@ABC) May 27, 2022
Almost nothing polls this well. pic.twitter.com/kFlrpuFXn4
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 29, 2022
Sad! 