Shared priorities

Read each row for both groups. Freedom of speech sits at the top for gun owners (94) and for non-gun owners (92). Every other right in the chart scores lower for each group: the right to vote is 92 and 89, privacy 89 and 86, religion 88 and 85, and owning guns 74 and 35. So speech is the right that both groups most often call essential to their own freedom.

The chart also shows how close the two groups are on four of the five rights, with gaps of two or three points. Only the gun row splits them, by 39 points.

Each choice

• A. Gun ownership is the one row where the groups are far apart, 74 percent against 35 percent. This choice reverses the chart's most obvious gap.
• B. The vote row is higher than the religion row for both groups, 92 to 88 among gun owners and 89 to 85 among non-gun owners. Reading the rows in the wrong order gives this answer.
• C (correct). Speech has the highest share in both groups, 94 and 92, so it is the right each group most often calls essential.
• D. In four of the five rows, the two groups are no more than three points apart. Only the gun row shows a deep split, so the groups agree in most categories.