AUSTIN, Texas -- Tuesday marked two years since a gunman walked into a church in Sutherland Springs and killed 26 people.

Since then, there have been three major mass shootings in Texas. All have reignited the gun debate in the state and according to a new poll, a majority of Texans still support stricter gun laws.

Slightly more than half of Texas registered voters say gun control laws should be tougher according to a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released Tuesday. A strong majority, 81 percent, would require background checks for all gun purchases with the level of support crossing party lines. The poll also found most surveyed would support temporarily taking guns away from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.

“You take these together and what you begin to see is that there is much more support for adjustments and more enforcement of existing restrictions and regulation of guns that edges into bipartisan territory and that can get majority Republican support as long as you’re not breaching an expansion or new kinds of limits on guns,” said James Henson, co-director of the poll and the head of the Texas Politics Project at UT Austin.

Bans on weapons are less popular overall, according to the results of the poll. Fifty-nine percent of voters support “banning the sales of selected semi-automatic rifles, often referred to as assault weapons.” Eighty-six percent of Democrats support a ban, while only 35 percent of Republican support one.

The internet survey of 1200 registered voters was conducted from October 18-27 and has an overall margin of error of +/- 2.83 percentage points, and an overall margin of error of +/- 4.21 percentage points for Democratic trial ballots.