Why Can't Democrats Pass Gun Control?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Universal background checks is a hugely popular proposal and yet doesn't sway Republican colleagues," the Toomey staffer said.
56% : so they could speak candidly, told me the NRA's campaign spending is not the reason restrictions on gun ownership or use haven't passed at the federal level in decades.
55% : A lot of Americans own guns and value their gun rights -- and that makes restricting access to them difficult even when the NRA is weak and its opponents are ascendant.
54% : The former Toomey aide, who worked with the senator during the height of the backlash over his support for universal background checks, concurred.
51% : "No matter what the media and our opponents would like you to believe, the majority of Americans care deeply about gun rights," he said.
50% : "A lot of people wrote in '2A,'" for the Second Amendment.
50% : We have more votes to expand gun rights than there are to contract them,"a current staffer from Toomey's office said.
47% : And they are what now stand in the way of new gun laws.
45% : They haven't passed an assault-weapons ban since retaking the House in 2018.
45% : Passionate opposition to restrictions on gun ownership can be formidable even when polling indicates broad support for specific proposals.
42% : "He makes decisions on legislation based on what is best for Montana, and that's why he doesn't support an assault-weapons ban."
39% : King, the senator from Maine, expressed his skepticism toward an assault-weapons ban while talking with the Bangor Daily News last year.
38% : Ultimately, though, the Toomey staffer said the lack of new gun laws while the NRA's political opponents control the federal government has less to do with campaign spending or effective lobbying.
30% : The president, Senate majority leader, and speaker of the House vehemently support not just extending background checks for private gun sales, but instituting a more aggressive version of the assault-weapons ban that Biden helped pass in the mid-1990s.

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