Trust in Government Matters When it Comes to Attitudes towards Gun Policy
Party affiliation is a better predictor of attitudes towards gun policies than ideology
By: Mila Seppälä
What kinds of things impact the way people feel about gun policy?
Partisanship probably comes to mind first for most of us. Indeed, consistently, both political parties and their supporters have diverged on the issue of guns with the gap only widening with time.
Political scientist Robert Spitzer (1995) n…
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