Should Gun Laws be More or Less Strict? (April 2021)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| More strict | 46% |
| Left as they are now | 30% |
| Less strict | 20% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 5% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 85% | 33% | 15% |
| Left as they are now | 7% | 22% | 53% |
| Less strict | 4% | 31% | 29% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 4% | 13% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 85% | 79% | 88% |
| Left as they are now | 6% | 16% | 4% |
| Less strict | 4% | 3% | 4% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 5% | 2% | 4% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 12% | 32% | 12% |
| Left as they are now | 54% | 48% | 55% |
| Less strict | 34% | 15% | 31% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 0% | 5% | 2% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 87% | 48% | 17% |
| Left as they are now | 4% | 22% | 51% |
| Less strict | 6% | 19% | 30% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 3% | 11% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 86% | 94% | 79% |
| Left as they are now | 9% | 2% | 3% |
| Less strict | 1% | 1% | 15% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 3% | 3% | 3% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 31% | 12% | 16% |
| Left as they are now | 42% | 59% | 46% |
| Less strict | 24% | 25% | 37% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 2% | 4% | 1% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 38% | 65% | 55% |
| Left as they are now | 35% | 13% | 27% |
| Less strict | 24% | 14% | 12% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 3% | 8% | 7% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| More strict | 36% | 54% |
| Left as they are now | 31% | 29% |
| Less strict | 30% | 11% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 3% | 6% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 62% | 40% | 37% |
| Left as they are now | 20% | 33% | 36% |
| Less strict | 12% | 22% | 24% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 5% | 5% | 3% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 46% | 54% | 42% | 40% |
| Left as they are now | 18% | 18% | 36% | 45% |
| Less strict | 30% | 20% | 18% | 13% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 7% | 8% | 3% | 2% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 48% | 39% | 47% | 39% | 52% | 47% |
| Left as they are now | 29% | 30% | 28% | 41% | 28% | 29% |
| Less strict | 11% | 23% | 20% | 15% | 18% | 24% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 13% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 2% | 0% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 33% | 43% | 56% | 68% |
| Left as they are now | 38% | 29% | 29% | 14% |
| Less strict | 24% | 20% | 12% | 16% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 4% | 7% | 3% | 3% |
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| Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 33% | 39% | 71% | 35% |
| Left as they are now | 40% | 34% | 14% | 30% |
| Less strict | 21% | 24% | 13% | 20% |
| Don’t know/No opinion | 6% | 3% | 2% | 15% |
