US has made no progress on gun violence since Newtown massacre: Poll

The United State has not had any achievement to reduce gun violence since the massacre of several schoolchildren and educators in Newtown in 2012, a new poll indicates.

According to the survey conducted by HuffPost/YouGov in early December, 63 percent of Americans believe that the US ability to prevent gun violence has not changed.

Only 9 percent of Americans think the US has gotten better at preventing the violence, and 18 percent say it’s even gotten worse since the Newtown school shooting.

It has been two years since Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old gunman stormed into Sandy Hook Elementary School days before Christmas and killed 20 young children, six adult school employees and his own mother.

Almost 100 school shootings have taken place since then, a report sponsored by anti-gun violence groups said.

In 2012, President Barack Obama had vowed to curb gun violence. However, the Senate rejected his proposal for wider background checks for gun buyers.

The poll also said a 59 percent majority of Democrats and a third of Republicans believe that most mass shootings in the United States could be prevented.

Every year, thousands of Americans lose their lives to the escalating gun violence in the country.

Many critics blame the notoriously liberal gun control laws in the US for the country’s high rate of gun violence.