Two weeks after the Parkland shootings, with student activists’ push for gun control dominating headlines, Americans said by a 24-point margin, 50 percent to 26 percent, that it was politically possible to pass stricter gun laws. Americans’ belief that new gun reforms are possible has receded somewhat from the record level it reached in late February , a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But other metrics suggest that public support for gun control isn’t fading as quickly as the confidence in its political prognosis. Other surveys this month also suggest that for now, Americans are still both paying attention to the gun control debate and more open to the idea than they’ve been in years. As The Washington Post notes, polling has found stronger, more consistent support for gun control now than in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.

Source: Huffington Post March 21, 2018 19:41 UTC