Perhaps most people might support more background checks in principle, but it's not really close to what people really care about right now: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gallup-only-4-americans-thin... Personally I don't support the latest gun legislation because it's not about guns or violence and if it were passed all it would lead to is a round of undeserved self-satisfied back-patting. If people want to get serious on curbing gun violence, maybe they should try their methods in say Chicago first before forcing the whole country to play along. (I know one method that could likely work but it's politically infeasible given the nature of the US's power structure. Are there any methods that can work with the current power structure?)