Should Gun Laws be More or Less Strict? (February 2022)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 43% |
Left as they are now | 34% |
Less strict | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 74% | 41% | 16% |
Left as they are now | 12% | 29% | 57% |
Less strict | 8% | 22% | 21% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 9% | 6% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 80% | 62% | 78% |
Left as they are now | 12% | 20% | 8% |
Less strict | 6% | 10% | 8% |
Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 8% | 6% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 12% | 25% | 15% |
Left as they are now | 59% | 50% | 58% |
Less strict | 24% | 17% | 21% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 9% | 6% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 80% | 43% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 9% | 30% | 52% |
Less strict | 6% | 13% | 23% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 13% | 5% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 73% | 80% | 87% |
Left as they are now | 17% | 8% | 3% |
Less strict | 8% | 6% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 5% | 6% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 27% | 16% | 19% |
Left as they are now | 48% | 57% | 51% |
Less strict | 23% | 18% | 27% |
Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 9% | 3% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 36% | 62% | 48% |
Left as they are now | 42% | 14% | 29% |
Less strict | 16% | 15% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 8% | 9% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 36% | 49% |
Left as they are now | 36% | 32% |
Less strict | 23% | 9% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 9% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 52% | 42% | 30% |
Left as they are now | 25% | 36% | 45% |
Less strict | 17% | 14% | 20% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 8% | 6% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 43% | 45% | 42% | 43% |
Left as they are now | 27% | 27% | 37% | 41% |
Less strict | 20% | 19% | 13% | 12% |
Don't know/No opinion | 10% | 9% | 7% | 3% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 47% | 39% | 40% | 45% | 45% | 50% |
Left as they are now | 26% | 34% | 35% | 36% | 33% | 35% |
Less strict | 14% | 18% | 17% | 15% | 15% | 13% |
Don't know/No opinion | 13% | 10% | 8% | 4% | 6% | 3% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 37% | 42% | 42% | 61% |
Left as they are now | 38% | 33% | 34% | 26% |
Less strict | 18% | 17% | 15% | 9% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 8% | 8% | 4% |
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. |
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More strict | 35% | 39% | 59% | 43% |
Left as they are now | 39% | 38% | 25% | 21% |
Less strict | 19% | 17% | 12% | 10% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 6% | 3% | 26% |