Support For Gun Control Plunges To New Low, New Poll Shows
The American people appear to be souring on the idea of tougher regulations on firearms, Gallup revealed in a new survey that was published on Tuesday. Gallup began tracking the public’s pulse on the issue of gun control in 1990 when 78% of the population favored enacting tougher rules surrounding access to guns. “Calls for tougher gun control have generally spiked in the wake of prominent mass shootings and faded as the memory of each receded,” Gallup noted. But its latest poll suggests that support for limitations to the Second Amendment has cratered, reaching its lowest approval rating sinc...