Guns

Public Believes Americans Have Right to Own Guns

Nearly three in four say Second Amendment guarantees this right

March 27, 2008
A recent USA Today/Gallup poll finds that 73% of Americans believe the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of Americans to own guns.More ...
What Americans Think About Guns

What Americans Think About Guns

March 27, 2008
While 49% of Americans think that gun laws should be stricter, views vary by gender and ideology.

Shrunken Majority Now Favors Stricter Gun Laws

Percentage favoring stricter gun laws has declined in recent years, while most still oppose handgun ban

October 11, 2007
The percentage of Americans favoring stricter gun laws now ties for the lowest Gallup has recorded in nearly two decades of tracking support for stronger gun control. Support for stricter laws fell sharply following 9/11, and though it rebounded some in the past few years, Gallup's latest poll shows it falling back to the low point recorded in 2002. While a slim majority still favor stricter laws, most Americans oppose a ban on handguns.More ...

Gun Owners and the 2008 General Election

Giuliani viewed most positively, Clinton most negatively

May 23, 2007
Gun owners rate Rudy Giuliani the most favorably of all the leading 2008 presidential candidates. Hillary Clinton is rated most negatively. As might be expected, gun owners, who are more likely to be Republicans than Democrats, rate the Republican presidential candidates more favorably than the Democratic contenders.More ...

Gun Ownership and the 2008 Primaries

Giuliani in slightly weaker position among gun owners

May 22, 2007
A Gallup analysis suggests that gun ownership may be a bigger factor in next year's Republican primaries than in the Democratic primaries. Republican gun owners are less likely than non-owners to support Rudy Giuliani, with support for Fred Thompson much stronger among gun owners than non-owners. Among Democrats, both gun owners and non-owners favor Hillary Clinton over the other candidates for the party's 2008 nomination by similar margins.More ...

Guns

Do you have a gun in your home? In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now? Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?More ...

Americans Skeptical About Preventing Virginia Tech-Like Incidents

No clamor for mandatory psychological testing of students or banning all handguns in wake of tragedy

May 2, 2007
Campus shootings are inevitable, and gun control alone isn't going to change that; but better monitoring and treatment of students with emotional problems and enhanced campus security procedures would seem to be in order. This paraphrases Americans' basic assessment of campus security following the recent shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, according to a new Gallup Panel survey.More ...

Gallup Summary: Americans and Gun Control

Public satisfied with gun laws, but open to making them more strict

April 18, 2007
Although it is unclear to what degree more rigid gun control laws might have prevented Monday's Virginia Tech shooting tragedy, a review of Gallup data suggests that the public is, in general, open to the idea of stricter laws governing the sale of firearms and more rigorous enforcement of gun control laws.More ...

Americans by Slight Margin Say Gun in the Home Makes It Safer

Majority of Americans favor stricter gun laws

October 20, 2006
Americans are now slightly more likely to believe that having a gun in the home makes it a safer rather than more dangerous place to be -- a significant change in sentiment from six years ago. A majority of Americans say laws covering the sale of firearms should be more strict, but this includes a sizable group that wants existing laws better enforced rather than new laws passed. About 4 out of 10 Americans have a gun in the home.More ...

Before Recent Shootings, Most Parents Not Worried About School Safety

Rise in concern after Columbine in 1999 has dissipated

October 4, 2006
A recent Gallup Poll has tracked the public perceptions on the issues of school safety and gun control. In August of this year, the majority of parents of school-aged children in America were generally not fearful for their child's safety at school, although the trend on this measure of safety concern has varied significantly over the years.More ...
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