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 ...

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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.

Unconventional Right - The 2026 Political Typology - Pew Research Center
Like Faith First Conservatives and No Apologies Right, Unconventional Right are far less likely than other Americans to see gun violence as a very big problem in the country: Just 29% say it is. But when it comes to openly carrying guns in public, Unconventional Right hold views closer to the rest of the groups.

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.

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.

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 ...

Where Republicans and Democrats agree, differ on gun policy | Pew ...
Republicans and Democrats find rare common ground on some gun policy proposals in the U.S., but there are sharp partisan differences on other issues.

Political Typology Quiz: Which of the 9 Groups Are You? | Pew Research ...
Take our quiz to find your place among nine political typology groups, based on a survey of 10,000+ U.S. adults. Where do you fit?

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?