Support for gun control isn’t dead, new poll shows. It just matters how you frame the question.

Two years ago, immediately after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., poll after poll showed broad support for new gun control measures. …

Today, gun control seems to be on the run. Gun rights is winning the day.

An oft-cited proof of this new order is a Pew poll from December. That poll found that — for the first time — a majority of Americans favored gun rights (52 percent) over gun control (46 percent). …

But some public health professors were bothered by the Pew poll and the conclusions broadly drawn from it. CONT.

Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post

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