Americans’ immediate reaction to President Barack Obama’s proposals for new laws designed to reduce gun violence is more positive than negative, with 53% saying they would want their representative in Congress to vote for the set of proposed new laws, while 41% say their representative should vote against them. [cont.] […] Read more »

One of President Obama’s less-noticed actions on guns yesterday could actually prove to be one of the most significant in the long run. Among other things, the president signed an executive order directing the Centers on Disease Control to start studying “the causes of gun violence” once again. Why does […] Read more »

The massacre of children at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., appears to be profoundly swaying Americans’ views on guns, galvanizing the broadest support for stricter gun laws in about a decade, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. As President Obama tries to persuade a reluctant Congress to […] Read more »

Support for gun control is falling. Well, that’s what CNN wants you to believe, anyway. … The problem with all this analysis is that it begins on a faulty premise. Americans, at least at this point, do not yearn any less for stricter gun measures than they did in December. […] Read more »

Ninety-two percent of Americans favor background checks for all potential gun buyers, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. Universal background checks are one of the proposals that President Obama has called on Congress to pass as part of his proposal to combat gun violence in the wake […] Read more »