In Gallup polling conducted prior to last week's gun massacre at an immigrant center in Binghamton, N.Y., only 29% of Americans said the possession of handguns by private citizens should be banned in the United States. While similar to the 30% recorded in 2007, the latest reading is the smallest percentage favoring a handgun ban since Gallup first polled on this nearly 50 years ago. [More]Just got this from the folks at Gallup. I haven't had time to digest it yet but don't want to let that delay me from bringing it to you for review and comment.
I'll be interested in seeing the "after" numbers.
I will say, as with all such media polls I've seen, there's no way to establish the knowledge of respondents with the issue. Hell of a thing when policy is driven by ignorance, and as we continually see, engineered ignorance at that.