Even though Washington has entirely failed to act on gun control measures, a new
PPP poll found that 90 percent of Americans still support universal background checks for guns and strong majorities (74 percent) think places of worship should have the right to prohibit guns from being brought onto their property.
Minority Leader Harry Reid made a push for expanded background checks Tuesday.
"The United States is the only advanced country where this type of mass violence occurs," Reid said from the Senate floor. "Let's do something. We can expand, for example, background checks. ...We should support not giving guns to people who are mentally ill and felons."
Support for universal background checks has remained fairly steady over the past couple years since the Newtown massacre in December of 2012. Here's a history of responses to Quinnipiac polls
via PollingReport.com.
Americans have been even more adamant about background checks at gun shows, dating all the way back to 1999. Check out this history of responses to ABC News/Washington Post polls
via PollingReport.com.