Should Gun Laws be More or Less Strict? (October 2022)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| More strict | 55% |
| Less strict | 15% |
| Left as they are now | 24% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 6% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 87% | 38% | 27% |
| Less strict | 7% | 18% | 22% |
| Left as they are now | 3% | 29% | 46% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 14% | 4% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 83% | 79% | 92% |
| Less strict | 2% | 14% | 6% |
| Left as they are now | 3% | 4% | 1% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 12% | 2% | 1% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 23% | 30% | 28% |
| Less strict | 30% | 18% | 21% |
| Left as they are now | 44% | 44% | 48% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 9% | 3% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 87% | 63% | 28% |
| Less strict | 6% | 10% | 24% |
| Left as they are now | 4% | 15% | 44% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 11% | 4% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 86% | 95% | 80% |
| Less strict | 5% | 3% | 11% |
| Left as they are now | 7% | 1% | 4% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 2% | 1% | 6% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 42% | 27% | 22% |
| Less strict | 19% | 20% | 31% |
| Left as they are now | 35% | 50% | 42% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 3% | 5% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 45% | 79% | 67% |
| Less strict | 19% | 7% | 8% |
| Left as they are now | 32% | 6% | 18% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 8% | 7% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| More strict | 48% | 61% |
| Less strict | 21% | 9% |
| Left as they are now | 25% | 24% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 6% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 66% | 55% | 38% |
| Less strict | 14% | 14% | 20% |
| Left as they are now | 13% | 27% | 35% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 4% | 7% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 61% | 62% | 49% | 52% |
| Less strict | 13% | 18% | 16% | 11% |
| Left as they are now | 15% | 15% | 29% | 34% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 11% | 5% | 5% | 2% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 59% | 55% | 50% | 58% | 55% | 61% |
| Less strict | 19% | 12% | 13% | 18% | 16% | 17% |
| Left as they are now | 22% | 24% | 28% | 21% | 25% | 21% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 0% | 9% | 9% | 3% | 4% | 1% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| More strict | 48% | 54% | 52% | 73% |
| Less strict | 16% | 16% | 14% | 12% |
| Left as they are now | 32% | 23% | 28% | 10% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 7% | 6% | 5% |
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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 | 48% | 49% | 75% | 38% |
| Less strict | 20% | 15% | 10% | 13% |
| Left as they are now | 29% | 30% | 12% | 19% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 6% | 2% | 30% |
