Jana Riess: Which religions support gun control?

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jana Riess With mass shootings becoming an all-too regular occurrence in the United States and gun control efforts largely stalled in government, it’s worth dissecting which Americans support gun control measures, and how they affiliate religiously — or don’t.

To determine this, Ryan Burge, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, has analyzed data from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), a national survey with 60,000 respondents.

The gun control portion of the study can be broken down into three parts: whether respondents want potential gun owners to have a background check, whether they…