Should Gun Control Laws Be More or Less Strict (February 2019)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 49% |
Less strict | 17% |
Left as they are now | 30% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% |
category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 83% | 45% | 19% |
Less strict | 3% | 23% | 29% |
Left as they are now | 11% | 29% | 48% |
Don't know/no opinion | 3% | 3% | 4% |
category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 85% | 74% | 86% |
Less strict | 1% | 3% | 4% |
Left as they are now | 13% | 18% | 6% |
Don't know/no opinion | 2% | 5% | 4% |
category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 19% | 23% | 18% |
Less strict | 35% | 22% | 28% |
Left as they are now | 43% | 44% | 52% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% | 11% | 3% |
category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 84% | 59% | 21% |
Less strict | 4% | 8% | 30% |
Left as they are now | 8% | 24% | 46% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% | 8% | 3% |
category | Leaning liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 76% | 84% | 89% |
Less strict | 4% | 4% | 4% |
Left as they are now | 15% | 7% | 4% |
Don't know/no opinion | 5% | 4% | 3% |
category | Leaning conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 38% | 17% | 16% |
Less strict | 28% | 30% | 31% |
Left as they are now | 30% | 50% | 50% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% | 2% | 3% |
category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 41% | 74% | 56% |
Less strict | 21% | 10% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 35% | 10% | 29% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% | 6% | 5% |
category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 43% | 55% |
Less strict | 24% | 12% |
Left as they are now | 31% | 29% |
Don't know/no opinion | 3% | 5% |
category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 62% | 48% | 34% |
Less strict | 12% | 19% | 19% |
Left as they are now | 22% | 29% | 42% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% | 4% | 5% |
category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 58% | 51% | 47% | 43% |
Less strict | 14% | 18% | 18% | 17% |
Left as they are now | 23% | 23% | 32% | 39% |
Don't know/no opinion | 5% | 8% | 3% | 1% |
category | No high school | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 59% | 42% | 48% | 49% | 54% | 53% |
Less strict | 16% | 16% | 18% | 15% | 18% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 19% | 37% | 31% | 29% | 25% | 26% |
Don't know/no opinion | 6% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 3% | 1% |
category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 41% | 46% | 56% | 69% |
Less strict | 19% | 18% | 19% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 36% | 32% | 21% | 16% |
Don't know/no opinion | 4% | 4% | 3% | 5% |
category | The Bible is the word of God, to be taken literally | The Bible is the word of God, not to be taken literally | The Bible is a book written by men |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 39% | 45% | 71% |
Less strict | 20% | 19% | 8% |
Left as they are now | 36% | 34% | 18% |
Don't know/no opinion | 5% | 2% | 3% |