A House Divided: Gun Control as a Divisive Issue Among Individuals Living with Gun Owners

However, such an anomaly is exactly what can be found with one of the most salient current issues: gun control. Gun ownership status can be broken into three groups: gun owners, non-gun owners, and non-gun owners that live in a home with a gun owner. As expected, non-gun owners overwhelmingly support gun control reform more than gun owners on average. While this makes intuitive sense, it is less obvious where the third group — Household Owns — would stand on gun control reform. Since everyone in this group lives with a gun owner and given that homes are typically aligned on political views, you may guess that this group would oppose gun control reform at a similar rate to gun owners. However, recent data from the 2022 Cooperative Election Study (CES) indicates that the Household Owns group actually holds views on gun control reform that are much more similar to those of non-gun owners. <a href="https://tufts-pol.medium.com/a-house-divided-gun-control-as-a-divisive-issue-among-individuals-living-with-gun-owners-11012e8908b3">Click Here</a>