Opinion | An assault weapons ban would slow mass shootings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : In his explanation of the answers to the "right question," he used survey data, first from a Gallup poll taken in 2017 that found that "60 percent of Americans wanted gun laws to 'be made more strict,'" and then from a 2021 Washington Post-ABC poll that "found that 53 percent of respondents believed that stricter gun control 'would not reduce crime.'"
38% : He suggested that the "right question" would be: "Why won't Republican voters who back gun control put any pressure on their party?"
21% : In his April 24 op-ed, "The question advocates of gun control never ask," Ramesh Ponnuru claimed that advocates of "gun control" fail because they "ask the wrong question."

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