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Healthcare, national security, guns and education are the most influential issues in the 2020 election. How important they are to voters, though, depends on which party those voters belong to.

Americans' approval of the Supreme Court and their trust in it remain low. The public is divided on whether its ideology is "about right" or "too conservative."

A majority of Americans believe the country would be safer if more people carried concealed weapons. Most favor universal background checks, although many doubt that such checks would prevent mass shootings.

Of 16 U.S. cities, Americans are most likely to consider Dallas and Boston as safe to live in or visit and are least likely to say Detroit and Chicago are safe.

More Americans rate the ethics of top Biden administration officials in negative than positive terms. This is a worse assessment than for all prior presidential administrations since Reagan, with the exception of Trump.

In the U.S., 55% of Americans are dissatisfied with gun laws, the highest since 2001. The percentage who feel gun laws should be less strict has increased sharply, although the majority of those dissatisfied still want stricter laws.

Listen to teachers talk about how safe they feel at school, and how they think the nation should address the problem of gun violence -- other than arming themselves.

Find out where Americans stand on the major issues of the day. Do they favor stricter gun laws? Do they want a bigger military budget? Whom do they side with on Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

American gun owners give personal safety/protection as the top reason they own a gun. Hunting is the next-highest response, while the Second Amendment and collecting guns as a hobby are lower on the list of reasons.

U.S. gun ownership varies most strongly by gender -- 45% of men versus 15% of women personally own guns. Being married and from the South are also major predictors of gun ownership -- 64% of Southern married men own guns.