Would the U.S. Be Safer or Less Safe with More Guns (February 2020)
category | Total |
---|---|
More safe | 37% |
Less safe | 39% |
No impact on safety | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 7% | 29% | 67% |
Less safe | 72% | 33% | 9% |
No impact on safety | 15% | 24% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 14% | 8% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 5% | 8% | 8% |
Less safe | 73% | 59% | 76% |
No impact on safety | 15% | 24% | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 9% | 5% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 68% | 62% | 68% |
Less safe | 8% | 8% | 10% |
No impact on safety | 23% | 17% | 13% |
Don't know/No opinion | 1% | 13% | 9% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 4% | 22% | 68% |
Less safe | 80% | 37% | 12% |
No impact on safety | 11% | 28% | 13% |
Don't know/No opinion | 5% | 13% | 7% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 7% | 2% | 4% |
Less safe | 68% | 86% | 81% |
No impact on safety | 17% | 8% | 12% |
Don't know/No opinion | 8% | 4% | 4% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 46% | 72% | 75% |
Less safe | 27% | 8% | 9% |
No impact on safety | 23% | 13% | 7% |
Don't know/No opinion | 3% | 8% | 8% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 47% | 10% | 25% |
Less safe | 36% | 55% | 40% |
No impact on safety | 12% | 24% | 22% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 11% | 13% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
More safe | 46% | 29% |
Less safe | 36% | 42% |
No impact on safety | 12% | 20% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 10% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
More safe | 30% | 35% | 50% |
Less safe | 47% | 41% | 24% |
No impact on safety | 16% | 17% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 8% | 10% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
More safe | 20% | 31% | 43% | 47% |
Less safe | 48% | 44% | 34% | 35% |
No impact on safety | 16% | 15% | 18% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 15% | 10% | 6% | 3% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
More safe | 29% | 33% | 38% | 37% | 39% | 39% |
Less safe | 28% | 36% | 38% | 44% | 42% | 42% |
No impact on safety | 29% | 18% | 18% | 15% | 12% | 15% |
Don't know/No opinion | 14% | 13% | 6% | 4% | 7% | 3% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
More safe | 46% | 39% | 20% | 25% |
Less safe | 28% | 33% | 54% | 60% |
No impact on safety | 17% | 19% | 17% | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 9% | 8% | 9% | 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. |
---|---|---|---|---|
More safe | 56% | 40% | 16% | 30% |
Less safe | 23% | 31% | 69% | 30% |
No impact on safety | 14% | 21% | 12% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 7% | 8% | 3% | 26% |