What do Americans really think about regulating guns? A popular, long-running Pew poll asking Americans to choose whether gun “rights” or gun “control” are more important suggests a wide schism in public opinion on gun laws. But Colleen Barry, a public policy scholar at Johns Hopkins, couldn’t find an up-to-date public opinion survey that addressed specific gun measures in detail. So she created one — and was surprised at its findings.
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