Two-thirds back tougher gun laws, but Republican support drops: poll

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY JOSEPH CHOI - 03/25/21 07:33 AM EDT

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support tougher gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings that rocked the country in the last week, according to a new USA Today-Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. But the poll also found support among Republicans for such legislation has fallen.

The poll was conducted from March 23 to 24, one day after a deadly shooting at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store and less than a week after deadly shootings in Atlanta.

Among those surveyed, 65 percent of respondents said that current gun laws should be stricter with 41 percent saying they should be “a lot more strict” than they currently are and 24 percent saying they should be “somewhat more strict.”

The percentage of those who believed gun laws should be “a lot more strict” dropped by about 9 percentage points from when Ipsos conducted the same survey in 2019.

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[Claire Oh Nette]

1. 65%

We need to contact our senators, but more importantly, non democrats who support sensible gun safety laws need to contact those same GOP senators as well.

The Senate is grossly unequal representation.

The time for the Wyoming plan was when we added Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii. Expand Congress and the EC for equitable representation.