When It Comes to Guns, Republican Women Don’t Always Agree with Republican Men – By Lauren Leader (Politico) / June 11, 2023
As gun violence grows in our country, GOP women seem to be thinking more like Democratic women.
For years it has seemed as if the political stalemate over guns in America was unbreakable. Despite mass shooting after mass shooting, most efforts to regulate gun ownership, even in ways that have a majority of support from voters, have run aground.
But new polling by my organization conducted in partnership with Republican polling firm Echelon Insights suggests there’s a significant disconnect between Republican women and Republican men on guns.
We found that Republican women not only support certain kinds of gun restrictions more than Republican men do, they also mostly agree with Democratic and independent women on what those solutions should be. Specifically, there is a whopping 20-point gap between Republican men (41 percent) and women (61 percent) on the question of restricting the ability to purchase certain types of firearms.
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