44 percent say gun violence is related to easy access to firearms: poll [View all]
Source: The Hill
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 03/29/21 11:45 AM EDT
Forty-four percent of Americans say most gun violence is related to easily accessible firearms, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.
Another 29 percent of voters polled attributed gun violence to urban gangs, while 27 percent said mental illness was related to the violence.
The findings come as two mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder this month reignited the long-running debate over gun control in the U.S. Eight people in the Atlanta area and 10 people in Boulder, Colo., were killed in the recent shootings.
President Biden urged Congress to pass meaningful gun reforms last week, while a number of other Democrats called for action on the issue, pointing to gun control.
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