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According to joint polls published by CNN and the SSRS Institute: 64% of Americans support stricter gun control laws, 36% oppose it. 54% of Americans believe that such laws will reduce the number of deaths and killings of citizens with firearms, and 58% believe that the government can take effective action to prevent mass shootings. 36% believe ...
Gun protesters. Gun violence is a serious issue, yet it remains one of the easiest to solve. Despite wide public support for stronger laws and fewer guns, our government continues to listen to the ...
Huffington Post reported in September 2013 that 48% of Americans said gun laws should be made more strict, while 16% said they should be made less strict and 29% said there should be no change. [127] Similarly, a Gallup poll found that support for stricter gun laws has fallen from 58% after the Newtown shooting, to 49% in September 2013. [127]
Thursday’s discussion renewed a longstanding debate over whether stricter gun laws or improving mental health services are the better approach to reducing gun violence.
He enacted strict gun control laws and initiated a massive buyback scheme. He had to stare down political opposition from his own supporters at the time, but his tough stance has been vindicated ...
Submitted opinion column: Melissa Carden is the executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence.
A 2013 study of the 1995 Canadian gun control law Firearms Act reported little evidence that this law significantly reduced rates of lethal gun violence against women. [ 107 ] On May 1, 2020, after deadly shootings in Nova Scotia , Justin Trudeau's Liberal government banned 1,500 kinds of military-style semi-automatic rifles, including the ...
As it happened, the governor meekly signed into law a measure delivering the opposite — easing gun restrictions, allowing Ohioans to carry a concealed weapon without training or a requirement to ...