Support or Oppose: Raising the legal age to purchase any firearm from 18 years of age to 21 years of age (April 2023)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| Strongly support | 57% |
| Somewhat support | 19% |
| Somewhat oppose | 9% |
| Strongly oppose | 11% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 5% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 78% | 46% | 42% |
| Somewhat support | 13% | 16% | 22% |
| Somewhat oppose | 3% | 12% | 12% |
| Strongly oppose | 2% | 12% | 19% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 14% | 5% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 72% | 69% | 84% |
| Somewhat support | 13% | 20% | 11% |
| Somewhat oppose | 5% | 6% | 2% |
| Strongly oppose | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 2% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 30% | 50% | 44% |
| Somewhat support | 25% | 18% | 23% |
| Somewhat oppose | 16% | 13% | 10% |
| Strongly oppose | 23% | 12% | 19% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 6% | 4% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 76% | 61% | 40% |
| Somewhat support | 13% | 19% | 23% |
| Somewhat oppose | 5% | 7% | 13% |
| Strongly oppose | 3% | 5% | 20% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 8% | 4% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 68% | 74% | 86% |
| Somewhat support | 17% | 15% | 5% |
| Somewhat oppose | 6% | 6% | 3% |
| Strongly oppose | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 2% | 3% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 42% | 37% | 42% |
| Somewhat support | 22% | 28% | 16% |
| Somewhat oppose | 15% | 15% | 10% |
| Strongly oppose | 16% | 16% | 28% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 4% | 5% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 50% | 61% | 66% |
| Somewhat support | 21% | 23% | 12% |
| Somewhat oppose | 10% | 5% | 9% |
| Strongly oppose | 15% | 6% | 4% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 5% | 8% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 46% | 65% |
| Somewhat support | 21% | 16% |
| Somewhat oppose | 13% | 6% |
| Strongly oppose | 16% | 6% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 6% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 58% | 58% | 51% |
| Somewhat support | 24% | 15% | 15% |
| Somewhat oppose | 7% | 11% | 9% |
| Strongly oppose | 6% | 11% | 20% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 6% | 4% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 46% | 62% | 58% | 57% |
| Somewhat support | 26% | 17% | 16% | 19% |
| Somewhat oppose | 13% | 8% | 8% | 9% |
| Strongly oppose | 7% | 8% | 12% | 14% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 6% | 5% | 2% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 51% | 52% | 59% | 50% | 60% | 63% |
| Somewhat support | 26% | 19% | 15% | 17% | 20% | 19% |
| Somewhat oppose | 11% | 14% | 6% | 10% | 7% | 7% |
| Strongly oppose | 5% | 10% | 14% | 17% | 9% | 7% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 5% | 6% | 6% | 4% | 4% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 53% | 52% | 66% | 70% |
| Somewhat support | 21% | 21% | 11% | 9% |
| Somewhat oppose | 8% | 10% | 10% | 10% |
| Strongly oppose | 13% | 11% | 6% | 6% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 4% | 7% | 7% | 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly support | 47% | 53% | 82% | 55% |
| Somewhat support | 28% | 17% | 8% | 15% |
| Somewhat oppose | 9% | 11% | 3% | 15% |
| Strongly oppose | 11% | 14% | 6% | 2% |
| Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 5% | 2% | 13% |
