Opinion Today

May 26, 2022

Broad support, but less hope for tighter U.S. gun laws
Reuters
Most Americans support stronger gun laws but are less confident that lawmakers will take action in the wake of a spate of mass shootings, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

Partisan splits remain on gun laws
Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News
A recent CBS News poll found 54% of Americans want laws covering the sale of guns made more strict. Thirty percent said gun laws should be kept as they are, and 16% want them to be less strict. The poll was conducted after the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, nine days ago and before the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Monday.

A fifth of Americans think mass shootings are simply unpreventable
Philip Bump, Washington Post
"No way to prevent this," say 1 in 5 residents of the only nation where this regularly happens.