Polling data is fun, especially how numbers can be manipulated to skew data depending on the poll location, size, etc. If I start a poll about guns and use 100 people in the Bay Area, it's going to lead to entirely different numbers that lets say a 100 people in Corpus Christi. You can also word the questions in a negative or positive manner to also influence results if you want a specific outcome. So when I hear "polling data" being used to base somebody's argument for change, I'm always skeptical. In the poll you are referring to, do you have a reference and where they did it, the size, the questions asked?
Looking at Gallup and Pew Research (both non-partisan trusted centers), all the polling data doesn't come close to what you're saying.
Guns
Do you have a gun in your home? In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now? Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other...
news.gallup.com
Amid a Series of Mass Shootings in the U.S., Gun Policy Remains Deeply Divisive
While a few proposals continue to garner bipartisan support, partisan divisions on others – including a ban on assault-style weapons – have grown wider.
www.pewresearch.org
