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The percentage of U.S. parents who fear for their children's safety at school has dropped to 24%, a level not seen since before the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre.

More parents now (35%) than a year ago (24%) say they fear for their child's safety at school. A near-record-high 20% say their child has expressed worry about feeling unsafe.

Nearly six in 10 Americans are dissatisfied with U.S. gun laws, marking the ninth consecutive year of majority-level dissatisfaction.

A record-high 63% of Americans are dissatisfied with U.S. gun laws, marking a seven-point increase over the past year. Democrats are far less satisfied than Republicans.

Look back at public opinion in the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings in 2012 and the evolution of Americans' views of gun control since then.

Parents' concern for their children's safety at school remains on the upper end of what Gallup has measured historically at the start of the school year.

The 57% of U.S. adults who think laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict is down nine points since June but remains above the 52% measured in 2021.

After support for stricter gun laws spiked following the Newtown shooting, views about the sale of firearms have returned to what they were earlier in the decade. Americans still oppose a ban on handgun possession.

As the new school year starts, 33% of U.S. parents of school-aged children say they fear for their child's physical safety at school, unchanged from the days right after December's Newtown, Conn., massacre, but up from 25% last August.

The percentage of U.S. parents who say they fear for their child's safety at school has fallen to 27% after being elevated for more than a year following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.