According to a new Gallup poll, support for stricter gun control has fallen by 15 percentage points in just the last five years. But, despite the drop being driven by independents' changing views, Democrats aren't likely to rethink their support for more gun control. The partisan divide on this issue has never been so large - 91% of Democrats and only 24% of Republicans support stricter laws. While Democrats claim they want "reasonable" or "common sense" laws, you get an idea of how stark the partisan differences are by considering the response to Gallup's question about whether people support a complete ban on civilian ownership of handguns: 40% of Democrats like the idea compared to only 6% of Republicans. [more...]
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