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