Poll: Support for stricter gun control wanes

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March 26, 2013, 7:00 AM

Poll: Support for stricter gun control wanes

Poll analysis by Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred
Backus


Soon after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced an assault
weapons ban would not be part of a gun control bill, a new CBS News poll
shows support for stricter gun control laws overall has dropped since the
shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.


Currently, support for stricter gun control laws stands at 47 percent today,
down from a high of 57 percent just after the shootings. Thirty-nine percent
want those laws kept as they are, and another 11 percent want them made less
strict.

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Partisans hold different views on gun control laws: 52 percent of
Republicans want the laws kept as they are, while 66 percent of Democrats
want stricter laws (down from 78 percent in February). Half of gun owners
themselves want gun laws overall kept as they are, but a quarter call for
stricter laws.


Women (55 percent) are more likely than men (39 percent) to want stricter
laws, as are those living in the Northeast. Only 44 percent in the Midwest
and South want stricter laws; 47 percent in the West.

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This poll was conducted by telephone from March 20-24, 2013 among 1,181
adults nationwide. Phone numbers were dialed from samples of both standard
land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on
the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error
for subgroups may be higher. This poll release conforms to the Standards of
Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

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