Support or Oppose allowing legal gun owners over the age of 21 to carry handguns in most public places (April 2021)
category | Total |
---|---|
Strongly support | 22% |
Somewhat support | 12% |
Somewhat oppose | 11% |
Strongly oppose | 48% |
Don’t know | 6% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 6% | 24% | 36% |
Somewhat support | 4% | 6% | 20% |
Somewhat oppose | 6% | 15% | 15% |
Strongly oppose | 79% | 39% | 24% |
Don’t know | 4% | 17% | 5% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 3% | 8% | 7% |
Somewhat support | 8% | 3% | 2% |
Somewhat oppose | 2% | 15% | 4% |
Strongly oppose | 85% | 67% | 83% |
Don’t know | 2% | 7% | 4% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 39% | 24% | 39% |
Somewhat support | 21% | 22% | 18% |
Somewhat oppose | 14% | 15% | 15% |
Strongly oppose | 20% | 37% | 23% |
Don’t know | 6% | 2% | 5% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 7% | 16% | 36% |
Somewhat support | 3% | 7% | 20% |
Somewhat oppose | 7% | 11% | 15% |
Strongly oppose | 81% | 53% | 24% |
Don’t know | 4% | 12% | 5% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 7% | 2% | 12% |
Somewhat support | 3% | 3% | 2% |
Somewhat oppose | 11% | 7% | 2% |
Strongly oppose | 73% | 86% | 80% |
Don’t know | 5% | 2% | 4% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 18% | 37% | 41% |
Somewhat support | 21% | 23% | 16% |
Somewhat oppose | 17% | 15% | 14% |
Strongly oppose | 41% | 18% | 25% |
Don’t know | 3% | 6% | 4% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 28% | 12% | 14% |
Somewhat support | 14% | 11% | 8% |
Somewhat oppose | 13% | 7% | 11% |
Strongly oppose | 42% | 64% | 56% |
Don’t know | 4% | 6% | 12% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Strongly support | 30% | 16% |
Somewhat support | 14% | 10% |
Somewhat oppose | 12% | 11% |
Strongly oppose | 39% | 56% |
Don’t know | 5% | 7% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 16% | 23% | 28% |
Somewhat support | 7% | 14% | 13% |
Somewhat oppose | 9% | 13% | 11% |
Strongly oppose | 62% | 43% | 42% |
Don’t know | 6% | 6% | 6% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 24% | 20% | 24% | 19% |
Somewhat support | 6% | 11% | 13% | 15% |
Somewhat oppose | 11% | 9% | 12% | 15% |
Strongly oppose | 46% | 53% | 46% | 48% |
Don’t know | 14% | 6% | 5% | 2% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 19% | 23% | 25% | 23% | 17% | 24% |
Somewhat support | 4% | 11% | 13% | 11% | 13% | 11% |
Somewhat oppose | 9% | 11% | 11% | 17% | 10% | 11% |
Strongly oppose | 49% | 44% | 47% | 44% | 55% | 50% |
Don’t know | 19% | 11% | 5% | 4% | 5% | 3% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 29% | 23% | 14% | 11% |
Somewhat support | 14% | 15% | 8% | 7% |
Somewhat oppose | 12% | 11% | 12% | 10% |
Strongly oppose | 37% | 45% | 63% | 66% |
Don’t know | 7% | 7% | 3% | 6% |
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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 30% | 26% | 13% | 12% |
Somewhat support | 14% | 15% | 6% | 8% |
Somewhat oppose | 11% | 14% | 9% | 10% |
Strongly oppose | 35% | 41% | 72% | 47% |
Don’t know | 9% | 4% | 1% | 23% |