Nearly three-quarters, 72%, say they believe guns make public places safer, a view shared by just under half of Republican women (48%), and one-third or fewer of Democrats or independents of either gender. Republican men also stand out for their perspectives. Americans living in gun-owning households are more than twice as likely as those in non-gun owning households to say allowing owners to carry guns in public places would increase public safety, 47% to 22%. Gun ownership also divides views, with 76% of those living in households without guns saying they support stronger laws, compared with 45% among those who live in a gun-owning household.
By contrast, there’s relatively little of an age divide, with 67% of adults younger than 45 and 62% of older adults in favor. A majority of Democrats (92%) and independents (65%) support new restrictions compared with 36% of Republicans. Views on enacting stricter gun control laws are also sharply polarized overall. Democrats are more likely than Republicans to hold intensely felt views: 80% say they strongly support stricter laws, nearly doubling the 42% of strong opposition among Republicans.
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In the latest survey, strong support for gun control laws among the full public stands at 46%, while strong opposition stands at 20%. In the years following the Parkland shooting, that margin has surged to an average of 30 points. In CNN polls conducted between 20, strong support for stricter gun laws outpaced strong opposition by an average margin of only 5 percentage points. There’s also been a sustained shift over the past decade in the intensity of opinions, which now consistently and substantially favor gun control advocates. CNN’s polling has found consistent majority backing for stricter guns laws since 2016, with 60% or more favoring tighter restrictions in every survey to ask the question since the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Public appetite for stricter gun laws has often tended to spike in the aftermath of high-profile mass shootings – but with the frequency of such incidents, that elevated support may have become somewhat more durable. Just over half the public, 54%, say they believe having stricter gun control laws would reduce the number of gun-related deaths in the country. Overall, 64% say they favor stricter gun control laws, with 36% opposed, little changed since a survey taken last summer in the wake of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.Ībout one-third of Americans, 36%, say that the presence of guns makes public places less safe, while 32% say that allowing gun owners to carry their guns in public makes those places safer and the rest that it makes no difference to safety. At the same time, the country remains closely divided about how the availability of guns affects public safety, with sharp differences in views across partisan and demographic lines. Most Americans continue to say gun control laws should be generally stricter, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, which finds broad support for preventing people under the age of 21 from buying any type of gun.
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