WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans were faced on Friday with another deadly school shooting, this time in Santa Fe, Texas, where at least 10 people are reported dead. As the pace of major school and other mass shootings has picked up in recent years, so too has public support for tougher gun control legislation.

Americans’ support for tougher gun laws hit a 25-year high in March. In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in a March Gallup poll, 67% of Americans indicated their support for tougher restrictions on guns. This was the highest level of support for more stringent gun laws in the U.S. since 1993. Americans’ support for tougher gun laws has generally trended up since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and has now returned to levels last seen prior to 2000.

There is a stark partisan divide in support for gun control. As with many other issues, Republicans and Democrats are strongly divided on the issue of tough gun laws. Roughly four in 10 Republicans say they favor tougher regulations on guns, […]

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