Citation

Vernick JS, Teret SP, Howard KA, Teret MD, Wintemute GJ. Health Aff. (Hope) 1993; 12(4): 198-208.

Affiliation

Injury Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8125437

Abstract

Faced with the national epidemic of gun violence, legislators should be especially sensitive to their constituents' support for various policy options. This support is best evidenced by well-conducted public opinion polls. We review public opinion polls on gun policy since 1987. Although the public support for a number of promising interventions targeting the design and manufacture of firearms has not been meaningfully investigated, strong support is evidenced for most other gun-control options. The public also believes, contrary to Supreme Court rulings, that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects a broad individual right to bear arms.