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Key facts about Americans and guns | Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to summarize key facts about Americans’ relationships with guns. We used data from recent Center surveys to provide insights into Americans’ views on gun policy and how those views have changed over time, as well as to examine the proportion of adults who own guns and their reasons for doing so. The Center survey questions used in this analysis ...
What the data says about gun deaths in the US | Pew Research Center
The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.
Gun Control and the Media - Pew Research Center
The Twitter debate about gun control has taken many twists and turns since the Newtown killings, according to a new Pew Research Report that looks at the mainstream coverage and social media conversation on that issue. Which terms did the media most often invoke when discussing gun control? And how big a factor was President Obama in driving the narrative about it?
In Social Media and Opinion Pages, Newtown Sparks Calls for Gun Reform
Here, gun control was an even more dominant element of the conversation about the Newtown massacre than in social media. And nearly all of the gun control opinion pieces called for reform. Overall, 33 of the 51 op-eds and editorials written about the shooting (65%) focused on the gun law element.
1. Views of U.S. gun laws, impact of gun ownership on safety
U.S. adults are evenly divided over whether gun ownership does more to increase safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves, or more to reduce safety by giving too many people access to firearms and increasing misuse (49% each). This question highlights the sharp contrasts between ...
Americans Approve of New Gun Law but Few Say It Will Reduce Gun ...
Republicans and Democrats differ sharply in views of the new gun law, its effectiveness and whether further gun legislation will be necessary. Roughly six-in-ten adults (63%) say they want to see Congress pass another round of legislation to address gun violence, compared with 35% who do not.
Views on gun policy in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
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 ...
Public Takes Conservative Turn on Gun Control, Abortion
Overview Public attitudes on a pair of contentious national issues - gun control and abortion - have moved in a more conservative direction over the past year. In both cases,…
Wide policy divides but some agreement between gun owners, non-owners ...
Views on gun policies linked to both gun ownership and partisanship While gun ownership is associated with views on gun policies, the sizable partisan differences in these policy attitudes are reflected among owners and non-owners as well.
2. Americans’ views of specific gun policy proposals
Still, majorities of gun owners oppose these policy proposals. Gun owners’, non-owners’ views by political party Across seven of the eight policy proposals asked about in the survey, gun owners within each political party are more likely than non-owners of the same party to favor policies that expand access to guns and ammunition.
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