Gun Control: Public Opinion And The Firearms Paradox

Major Paradox Hinders Effort To Curb Violence
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED ON BEHALF OF THE SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - President Barack Obama speaks in the rain during a campaign rally in Glen Allen, Virginia, United States, in this Tuesday, July 17, 2012. This photo has been shortlisted for a Sony World Photography Award. The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards will be announced on April 25, 2013. (Brooks Kraft /Sony World Photography Awards via AP Images)
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED ON BEHALF OF THE SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS - President Barack Obama speaks in the rain during a campaign rally in Glen Allen, Virginia, United States, in this Tuesday, July 17, 2012. This photo has been shortlisted for a Sony World Photography Award. The winners of the Sony World Photography Awards will be announced on April 25, 2013. (Brooks Kraft /Sony World Photography Awards via AP Images)

The venerable Gallup Poll has been asking a simple gun control question for a decade: “In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now?”

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