Gun violence prevention policy: Perceived and actual levels of gun owner support.

ABSTRACT: Gun violence prevention is often viewed as polarizing, although gun owners actually support many gun safety policies. The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between gun owners' perceptions of other gun owners' support for gun policies and their own individual support for such policies. NORC at the University of Chicago, which uses a panel of adults recruited through probability sampling, conducted an online/phone survey of 1,078 adult gun owners. Respondents were asked about their individual support for seven gun safety policies and their perceptions of other gun owners' support for those policies. We used two-sample t-tests and multivariate logistic regression analyses to explore the relationship between perceived and individual support. We found that gun owners underes

SUBMITTER: Grene KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10387604 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature