Original sentence: In the United States, increasingly, the mood of the American public strongly supports limits on guns, such as limits on handguns and military-type semi-automatic weapons, but also strongly opposes a full ban on guns used for hunting and sport, such as long guns..  Still there is strong opposition by the minority who oppose restrictions on gun ownership
Edited sentence: In the United States, opinion is very strongly divided, between those who oppose restrictions on gun ownership, and those who favor greater restrictions.This leads to intensive political debate about the benefit or detriment of firearm regulation