New Report: Voters Across Party Lines Overwhelmingly Support Stricter Gun Control Legislation
The Biden-Harris Administration has attempted to take action by passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act , which gun control advocates argue does little to solve the problem .
- The Biden-Harris Administration has attempted to take action by passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act , which gun control advocates argue does little to solve the problem .
- "It is overwhelmingly clear that stricter gun control legislation is popular with both current gun owners and voters.
- Politicians who don't respond to this shift in public opinion may find themselves out of sync with their constituents and potentially out of office," said Roy Eduardo Kokoyachuk, Co-Founder & Principal at ThinkNow
New polling from ThinkNow in collaboration with Team Friday shows the vast majority of voters support stricter gun control legislation, including:
Across party lines, more than 50% of voters who support gun control are in favor of:
A majority of voters within some of the most populous states support stricter gun control legislation, including:
58% of gun owners themselves support stricter gun legislation. - Support for stricter gun control legislation is particularly higher among Hispanics, Asians, and African-Americans, with over 70% who believe the U.S. needs to have universal background checks and raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21.