Americans are more likely to believe that improving mental health screening and support is the best way to prevent mass shootings, compared to enacting stricter gun laws, putting a greater emphasis on God and morality in school and society, having stricter security at public gatherings, or allowing more private citizens […] Read more »
Americans Back Obama’s Proposals to Address Gun Violence
Given the chance to vote “for” or “against” each of nine key proposals included in President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence, Americans back all nine. Americans are most likely to be in favor of requiring background checks for all gun sales (91%), increasing funding for mental health programs […] Read more »
What Does Public Support in Obama’s Second Inaugural Speech?
Inaugural speeches are often criticized as long on rhetoric and short on substance. But President Obama’s second inaugural address on Monday was surprisingly specific about his second-term goals. … Polls show that the president has at least a slim majority of Americans in his corner on almost all of the […] Read more »
Obama mobilizes his New America
There’s a reason why President Barack Obama has chosen to put gun control at the top of his second-term agenda. No issue draws as bright a line between the Old America and the New America as the gun issue. It will keep his coalition mobilized – the New America coalition […] Read more »
Pro–Gun Control Democrats Can Win in Red States. They Already Have.
President Obama’s gun-control proposal has been met, predictably, with GOP resistance—Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday that it’s “designed to appeal to … his political partisans”—but not all Democrats are embracing the proposal either … presumably because they fear the electoral consequences of alienating conservative crossover voters. But contrary to this […] Read more »
Fox News poll: Twice as many favor more guns over banning guns to reduce crime
Nearly twice as many voters say there would be less violent crime if more law-abiding Americans owned guns, than if guns were banned. In addition, while American voters generally favor strengthening gun laws, 71 percent do not think tougher laws can stop shootings like the one last month in Newtown, […] Read more »