• Health affairs · Jan 1993

    Public opinion polling on gun policy.

    • J S Vernick, S P Teret, K A Howard, M D Teret, and G J Wintemute.
    • Injury Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore.
    • Health Aff (Millwood). 1993 Jan 1;12(4):198-208.

    AbstractFaced with the national epidemic of gun violence, legislators should be especially sensitive to their constituents' support for various policy options. This support is best evidenced by well-conducted public opinion polls. We review public opinion polls on gun policy since 1987. Although the public support for a number of promising interventions targeting the design and manufacture of firearms has not been meaningfully investigated, strong support is evidenced for most other gun-control options. The public also believes, contrary to Supreme Court rulings, that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects a broad individual right to bear arms.

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