Ramesh Ponnuru: How polls mislead on guns and immigration

Americans tell pollsters that they want tougher gun laws and legal status for illegal immigrants who came here as minors — the so-called Dreamers. So why haven’t such laws been enacted?Catherine Rampell writes in The Washington Post that it’s a mistake to blame “Washington dysfunction.” The real culprits, she says, are Republican politicians who are out of step with public opinion, even among Republican voters.She stacks the deck a little in making her case. It&rsqu