Should Gun Laws be More or Less Strict? (June 2022)
category | Total |
---|---|
More strict | 52% |
Less strict | 14% |
Left as they are now | 28% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 85% | 44% | 28% |
Less strict | 6% | 16% | 21% |
Left as they are now | 5% | 27% | 46% |
Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 12% | 5% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 79% | 78% | 91% |
Less strict | 6% | 7% | 5% |
Left as they are now | 7% | 10% | 2% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 5% | 2% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 16% | 42% | 27% |
Less strict | 26% | 11% | 22% |
Left as they are now | 50% | 38% | 47% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 9% | 3% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 87% | 59% | 28% |
Less strict | 7% | 10% | 20% |
Left as they are now | 3% | 20% | 47% |
Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 11% | 5% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 84% | 88% | 87% |
Less strict | 13% | 5% | 6% |
Left as they are now | 3% | 3% | 5% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 3% | 2% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 44% | 24% | 22% |
Less strict | 9% | 16% | 29% |
Left as they are now | 38% | 54% | 45% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 5% | 3% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 46% | 68% | 60% |
Less strict | 16% | 14% | 11% |
Left as they are now | 34% | 8% | 23% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 10% | 7% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More strict | 46% | 58% |
Less strict | 19% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 30% | 26% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 7% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More strict | 63% | 52% | 35% |
Less strict | 11% | 15% | 17% |
Left as they are now | 20% | 28% | 39% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 5% | 8% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 57% | 54% | 49% | 53% |
Less strict | 19% | 17% | 13% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 18% | 20% | 32% | 35% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 8% | 7% | 2% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 41% | 48% | 50% | 56% | 58% | 52% |
Less strict | 34% | 12% | 15% | 14% | 13% | 15% |
Left as they are now | 16% | 35% | 28% | 24% | 22% | 31% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 5% | 7% | 6% | 7% | 2% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More strict | 40% | 54% | 59% | 69% |
Less strict | 20% | 10% | 12% | 10% |
Left as they are now | 35% | 28% | 24% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 7% | 5% | 5% |
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 | 38% | 49% | 74% | 44% |
Less strict | 20% | 13% | 9% | 14% |
Left as they are now | 36% | 32% | 15% | 23% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 6% | 3% | 18% |