Colleen L. Barry ( cbarry@jhu. edu ) is the Fred and Julie Soper Professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, codirector of the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy Research, and core faculty member of the Center for Gun Policy and Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Elizabeth M. Stone is a doctoral student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Oct;38(10):1727-1734. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00576. Epub 2019 Sep 9.
Gun policy is a prominent topic of debate in the 2020 US election cycle. Tracking evolving public attitudes about gun policy is critical in this context. Using data from the National Survey of Gun Policy fielded in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, we examined trends in support for more than two dozen gun policies over time by gun ownership status and political party affiliation, and across states. Most policies that we considered had majority support across the study period. We identified increases in public support over time for licensing and universal background checks of handgun purchasers, stronger regulation of gun dealers, and extreme risk protection orders. Gun owners and non-gun owners were highly supportive of requiring tests to demonstrate safe handling before carrying a concealed weapon, but there were large differences in support for other concealed carry policies by gun ownership status. A new item included in the 2019 survey showed that 84 percent of Americans supported requiring first-time gun purchasers to take a safety course. While gun policy continues to be characterized as highly polemical, large majorities of both gun owners and non-gun owners strongly support a range of measures to strengthen US gun laws.
枪支政策是 2020 年美国选举周期中一个突出的辩论话题。在这种情况下，跟踪公众对枪支政策的态度演变至关重要。利用约翰霍普金斯枪支政策和研究中心在 2013 年、2015 年、2017 年和 2019 年进行的全国枪支政策调查的数据，我们根据枪支拥有状况和政党归属以及各州，研究了支持 20 多项枪支政策的趋势随时间的变化。在整个研究期间，我们考虑的大多数政策都得到了多数人的支持。我们发现，公众对枪支购买者的许可和普遍背景调查、对枪支经销商的更严格监管以及极端风险保护令的支持度随着时间的推移而增加。枪支拥有者和非枪支拥有者非常支持在携带隐蔽武器之前进行安全操作测试，但对枪支拥有状况的其他隐蔽携带政策的支持存在很大差异。2019 年调查中新增的一个项目显示，84%的美国人支持要求首次购买枪支者参加安全课程。虽然枪支政策仍然被认为极具争议性，但枪支拥有者和非枪支拥有者的大多数人都强烈支持一系列加强美国枪支法的措施。
