While a majority of both men and women believe gun laws should be stricter in the United States, according to a new Gallup poll, the majority among men is very slim.
According to the poll results, released Friday, 62% of women want stricter laws, whereas, among men, no more than 51% are in agreement. Additionally, men were twice as likely than women to actually own a gun, at 43% compared to 22%.
However, Gallup reports, the “gender gap in gun-law preferences persists despite gun ownership status.”
This year has been filled with mass shootings in the U.S. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 618 so far this year and 36 mass murders, prompting many lawmakers and President Joe Biden to call for strict gun legislation.
A massacre of elementary school children in Texas, mass shootings in Philadelphia, Buffalo and the Chicago area, and the recent attacks on a Colorado LGBTQ+ nightclub and a Walmart in Virginia are just some of the gruesome shootings reported this year.
Men have been more likely than women to own a gun in the U.S.
since at least 2007, according to Gallup. Over the past 215 years, gun ownership among women has increased from the low teens to more than 20%.
Women were more likely (20%) than men (6%) to say that another member of their household owned a gun. Most women (56%) and nearly half of men (48%) said that there were no guns in their households.
Since Gallup began tracking Americans’ preferences for laws covering the sale of firearms in 2001, women have consistently said they would prefer stricter gun laws in the U.S.
“At the same time, no more than 51% of men have favored stricter laws, aside from a 56% reading in 2019,” said Gallup.
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