Opinion | The Looming Crisis for the Gun Safety Movement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Such programs, however, require resources and personnel at a time when social services and law enforcement are already stretched thin, and the political will to fund them adequately has never really materialized.
47% : While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or A.T.F., has federal gun law enforcement authority, the National Rifle Association and its allies have shackled it with outdated technology, insufficient funds, and absurd restrictions.
47% : There is broad public support for universal background checks, even among gun owners, and the court is unlikely to declare them unconstitutional.
45% : Advocates and activists need an agenda that can survive the Supreme Court's new interpretation of the Second Amendment.
45% : For decades now, the N.R.A. has said we don't need more gun laws, just better enforcement of existing gun laws.
44% : The court, with three conservative pro-gun justices appointed by former President Donald Trump, will almost certainly say New York's law is too restrictive under the Second Amendment -- which will lead, predictably, to more guns on city streets and more violent crime.
44% : The New York case could also signal the beginning of a new era of judicial hostility to gun laws, especially to the bans on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines that the reinvigorated gun safety movement has fought so hard to get enacted.
43% : An expansive new interpretation of the Second Amendment by the Supreme Court warrants a reordering of priorities.
40% : An agenda that focuses on intervention, beefing up gun law enforcement, and better background checks would not only be more likely to survive in the court, it might also do more to reduce gun violence.

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