Posted April 24, 2018 9:00 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

A recent Gallup poll revealed the percentage of Americans ranking gun control as the nation’s top problem decreased by half this month.
The survey, conducted April 2-11, found only 6 percent of respondents said strengthening regulations on gun sales remains the country’s “most important problem” — down from 13 percent in March.
Dissatisfaction with the government, immigration and race relations rounded out the top three most mentioned issues by survey respondents, at 23 percent, 11 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
Andrew Dugan, a Gallup researcher, blamed the temporary spike on a phenomenon often witnessed after high-profile mass shootings, noting the issue spiked 4 percent after massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and the Pulse nightclub in 2016.
“Given this context, the 7-percentage-point drop in the percentage of Americans mentioning guns as the country’s top problem this month might be a signal that concerns over guns in the U.S. are beginning to be fade. But this likely overstates the importance of the indicator’s decline,” Dugan wrote last week. “Mentions of gun control as the country’s top problem remain elevated by historical standards. Since 2001, gun control has been mentioned on average by 1 percent of Americans as the country’s top problem.”
Larry Keane, senior

Source: Guns.com

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