American voters don’t believe guns are the problem.
QUICK FACTS:
- A poll released on Tuesday found that roughly 40% of likely voters believe mental health issues are to blame for mass shootings.
- Around 30% believe that “access to firearms” is the key factor in creating situations like in Uvalde, Texas where elementary school students and teachers were killed.
- While Democrats seem to be focused on gun control measures, Republicans are turning the focus to mental health and related topics.
- Other issues covered in the poll were family problems and problems surrounding social media usage. Only about 10% of voters respectively considered those to be the key issue leading up to a shooting.
- An additional 4% believed it was the fault of the school in some way.
FROM RASMUSSEN REPORTS:
- “40% of Likely U.S. voters believe mental health is more to blame for mass shootings by young men in America, while 30% blame access to firearms,” Rasmussen Reports notes in their findings. “Ten percent (10%) think family problems are more to blame for mass shootings, while another 10% blame social media. Only four percent (4%) think school problems are more to blame.”
- “The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on May 25-26, 2022 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence,” Rasmussen explained.
- To see survey question wording, click here.
BACKGROUND:
- The study was centered around public opinion on Red Flag Laws, which are meant to “preemptively disarm people who show warning signs that they could be dangerous to themselves and/or others.”
- They are set into motion when a law enforcement official, family member, or household member petitions the court to remove firearms from someone they believe to be a danger to themselves or others.
