Table 5.

Results from OLS regression analyses predicting support for gun control (N = 522)

	General gun control		Reduce ownership		Dangerous people
Variable	b	SE	b	SE	b	SE
Demographics
Male	−.005	.074	−.106	.107	−.163*	.081
White	.042	.095	.012	.138	−.053	.104
Age	−.002	.002	−.017***	.003	.008**	.003
Political identificationa
Democrat	.589***	.081	.441***	.117	.083	.088
Other	.176†	.092	.001	.133	.128	.101
Locationb
Urban	.234*	.099	.560***	.143	−.125	.108
Suburban	.054	.094	.088	.135	−.106	.102
Income	.045***	.010	.033*	.014	.033**	.011
Gun owner	−.234**	.087	−.325**	.126	.006	.095
Experiences
Victim of crime	.188*	.077	.208†	.112	.115	.084
Know a victim of crime	−.072	.080	−.216†	.116	−.048	.088
Know shooting victim	−.015	.084	−.003	.122	−.072	.092
Exposure	−.119**	.037	.139*	.054	−.182***	.041
Perceived familiarity	.151***	.039	.073	.056	.235***	.042
Knowledge
Gun crime	−.080***	.017	−.110***	.025	−.030	.019
Gun policy	−.018	.016	−.059*	.024	.017	.018
Gun functioning	−.079***	.020	−.068*	.029	−.077**	.022
Adjusted R2	.312		.313		.142
F	14.901		14.992		6.059
P-value	.000		.000		.000

a reference category is “Republican”, b reference category is “rural”

^†p ≤ .10, *p ≤ .05, **p ≤ .01, ***p ≤ .001 (two-tailed tests)