Gun control support drops after Navy Yard shooting

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Support for gun control has dropped to its lowest level in a year, despite this week’s Washington Navy Yard shootings and a string of mass shootings over the past 14 months.

What’s more, a new Rasmussen Reports poll finds that nearly half of all Americans–46 percent–believe that the nation would be less safe if only police and the military were allowed to have guns.

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