Americans have a reoccurring discussion about firearms and gun culture in America with no policy changes. We use data from Pew Research fielded just after the Sandy Hook tragedy in 2012 to conduct a latent class analysis of gun policy positions and assess how demographic characteristics such as religion, impact belonging to particular gun policy latent classes. Unlike much previous research, we analyze not just individual's viewpoint on gun policy, but also the actions they take in regards to

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... eir viewpoint. In this attempt to understand why a seemingly dominant view (desire to change gun laws) never seems to move forward, we find that the largest latent class is respondents favoring gun control but are not active. Further, unlike those within the active gun control class, respondents in the active pro-gun latent class are more likely to contribute financially rather than just sign petitions or speak out.