Key facts about Americans and guns | Pew Research Center
WEBJul 24, 2024 · The public remains closely divided over whether it’s more important to protect gun rights or control gun ownership, according to an April 2024 survey. Overall, 51% of U.S. adults say it’s more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns, while a similar share (48%) say controlling gun ownership is more important.
8. Gun attitudes and the 2024 election - Pew Research Center
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Gun attitudes and the 2024 election. Perhaps no topic divides voters more deeply than the role that firearms have in American life. By overwhelming margins, Joe Biden’s supporters prioritize gun control over gun rights and say gun ownership does more to reduce than increase safety; roughly eight-in-ten Biden supporters (83%) say the …
Americans Approve of New Gun Law but Few Say It Will Reduce …
WEBJul 11, 2022 · Americans are largely supportive of the new gun law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (64%) approve of the new gun law, including 32% who strongly approve. Just 21% say they disapprove of the law, including 11% who strongly disapprove; 15% are not sure.
1. Views of U.S. gun laws, impact of gun ownership on safety
WEBJun 28, 2023 · In 2019, 60% said laws should be stricter. Demographic differences in views of gun policy have been stable in recent years. A majority of women (64%) say that gun laws should be stricter than they are today, compared with 51% of men. Roughly three-quarters of Black (77%) and Asian adults (74%) say this, compared with 68% of …
Where Republicans and Democrats agree, differ on gun policy
WEBJun 23, 2017 · Republicans and Democrats also diverge in their views about how gun ownership impacts crime and mass shootings in the U.S. A majority of Republicans (56%) say there would be less crime if more Americans owned guns; by contrast, 51% of Democrats say there would be more crime if more Americans had guns. Nearly two …
Amid a Series of Mass Shootings in the U.S., Gun Policy Remains …
WEBApr 20, 2021 · A narrow majority of U.S. adults (53%) say that gun laws should be stricter than they are today. About a third (32%) say that gun laws are currently about right, and 14% say they should be less strict than they are today. The share who say gun laws should be stricter has decreased since September 2019, when six-in-ten Americans said this.
Gun Policy - Research and data from Pew Research Center
WEBJun 6, 2024 · Growing shares of Americans view both gun violence and violent crime as very big national problems. 49% of U.S. adults say gun ownership increases safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves; an identical share says it reduces safety by giving too many people access to firearms and increasing misuse. short readsApr 26, …
Views on gun policy in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
WEBJun 22, 2017 · 5. Views on gun policy. The public is divided in overall views of gun policy in the United States. Yet large majorities of Americans continue to support a number of specific gun policy proposals, including restrictions on gun sales to the mentally ill and expanded gun background checks. Attitudes about guns and gun policies divide gun …
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
WEBApr 26, 2023 · About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 – 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% – involved a firearm. That marked the highest percentage since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records. More than half of all suicides in 2021 – 26,328 out of 48,183, or 55% – also involved a gun, the highest percentage since 2001.
Rural and urban gun owners have different experiences, views on …
WEBJul 10, 2017 · There is also a stark divide in opinion about the effect that guns have on crime depending on the type of community in which gun owners live. While 21% of urban gun owners say there would be more crime if more Americans owned guns, only 9% of rural gun owners agree. Another 57% of rural owners say there would be less crime, a view …