Support for tighter gun control laws increased 9 percentage points after the Orlando terror attack, and support for background checks and other measures being debated in the Senate hovered around 90%, according to CNN/ORC poll released Monday. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta & Tom LoBianco, CNN Read more »
The Two Strains of Americans’ Approaches to Guns
Lawmakers in Washington continue to debate the passage of new laws relating to guns — including preventing people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns, expanding background checks and banning the sale of assault weapons. As is always the case when representatives ponder legislation, it’s a good time to review […] Read more »
Republicans, Democrats Interpret Orlando Incident Differently
Republicans and Democrats have starkly different interpretations of what the recent mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub represents. While 79% of Republicans view it primarily as an act of Islamic terrorism, the majority of Democrats, 60%, see it as an act of domestic gun violence. Given Republicans’ more lopsided views, […] Read more »
After Orlando, Americans support assault weapons ban
In the wake of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, a new CBS News poll has found that a majority of Americans now support a nationwide ban on assault weapons. CONT. Reena Flores, CBS News Read more »
Gun Deaths Today Surpass Those In Our Bloodiest War
… If we really want to compare wartime casualties to contemporary gun deaths, we should look at the Civil War, which had the most American casualties of any war in our nation’s history. … The total number of Union soldiers killed by gunfire between 1861 and 1865 was somewhere around […] Read more »
Most Black People Now Think O.J. Was Guilty
A striking poll finding was cited often in coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1994 and 1995: Most white people thought the former football star was guilty of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, while roughly the same proportion of black people thought […] Read more »