CNN.com reports today:As memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too. According to a new CNN/ORC International survey, 49% of Americans say they support stricter gun control laws, with 50% opposed. That 49 percent support for “stricter gun control laws” represents a slight decline from the 53 percent who supported that aim when CNN/ORC last polled the question, in April. (As CNN noted, that figure “is in line with just about every other national survey released over the past couple of months.”)That shows the paradox of polling on “stricter gun control laws”: in that April poll, a full third of the total respondents said they didn't support “stricter gun control laws” in the abstract, but when specifically asked about one such law, they said they were for it. Unfortunately, CNN/ORC doesn't seem to have polled specific “stricter gun control laws” in their latest poll, leading to results and thus media coverage that is far less informative.

Source: CNN January 19, 2026 11:30 UTC