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Questions - School Shooting - August 27-28 and 30, 2025

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National Survey of 1,117 U.S. Likely Voters
Conducted August 27-28 and 31, 2025

By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* Police in Minneapolis say a 23-year-old gunman killed two children and wounded 17 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. Would stricter gun control laws help prevent shootings like the recent one in Minneapolis?

 

 

2* Which is closer to your opinion, that the school shooting in Minneapolis should be considered a politically motivated act of terrorism, or that it was mainly caused by the gunman’s mental illness?

 

 

3* Which would do more to reduce gun violence in America, passing new gun control laws or stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws?

 

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence