These are the topline results of a YouGov/Huffington Post survey of 1000 US adults interviewed August 26-28, 2015 on gun control. The margin of error is 4.0%.
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Do you think gun control laws should be made more or less strict than they are now?
More strict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55%
No change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27%
Less strict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6%
Thinking about next year’s presidential election, would you say that issues related to guns have received:
Too much attention from candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16%
About the right amount of attention from candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26%
Too little attention from candidates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21%
Would you say that issues related to guns have received:
Too much attention from the media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33%
About the right amount of attention from the media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24%
Too little attention from the media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12%
Do you think stricter gun control laws would:
Reduce the number of shootings in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43%
Increase the number of shootings in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15%
Not affect the number of shootings in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11%
Which of the following would you say is most likely to help prevent shootings from occurring in the United States?
Stricter gun control laws and enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46%
Allowing more private citizens to carry guns for protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18%
Do you or does anyone in your household own a gun?
Personally own a gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22%
Don’t personally own a gun, but someone in the household owns a gun . 13%
No one in the household owns a gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59%
Not sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6%
