Most Voters Back Stricter Gun Control Measures After Buffalo — and Many See White Nationalism as a Critical Threat

Following Saturday’s mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y., that authorities say was racially motivated, a new Morning Consult survey shows most voters continue to support stricter gun-control measures, though that level of backing has declined since President Joe Biden took office last year.

What’s more, the level of anxiety over white nationalism and the threat it poses to the country — though ample — also has not returned to the heights hit in late 2019 after a similar shooting in El Paso, Texas. CONTINUED

Eli Yokley, Morning Consult


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