Despite its reputation as an intractable, deeply divisive issue, there’s a lot of agreement among the American public on gun-control measures. …
As Clemson University political scientist Steven V. Miller noted Monday, “We’re not polarized on gun control but our leaders are.” And because public opinion tends to follow elite opinion, “our mass public opinion is gradually conforming to the polarization of opinion at the elite-level. We’ll collectively soon be part of the problem.” CONT.
Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post