A new Gallup poll released Tuesday revealed fewer Americans see guns as the most important problem facing the U.S. than from a month ago when the number of Americans seeing guns as the country’s top issue was at a record high.
Six percent of Americans mentioned gun control as the most important problem facing the country in Gallup’s latest poll on the issue. That number was more the double in March, reaching a record high when 13 percent of Americans mentioned guns as the most important problem for the nation to address.
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The issue most Americans mentioned as the country’s top problem was dissatisfaction with government, with 23 percent of Americans citing it as the nation’s most important issue, a slight uptick from 22 percent in March.
The poll comes more than two months after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman killed 17 people. The shooting once again centered the nation’s attention on gun violence renewing calls for new gun laws to prevent mass shootings and was followed by nationwide protests for more gun control in late March.
A Gallup poll conducted March 2 – 11 found American support for more gun control laws at their highest levels since 1993 in addition to finding 13 percent of Americans viewing guns as the nation’s most important issue.
Gallup’s latest poll on the issue was conducted April 2 – 11 and surveyed 1,015 adults over the age of 18 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
