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The horizontal axis shows the responses and the vertical axis shows the percent from 0 to 100.

The details are as follows.

 Guarantees rights of Americans: 73%

 Only guarantees rights of state militia members: 20%

 No opinion: 7%

Note: Survey respondents were asked in 2008 whether they believe the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of individual Americans to own guns, or whether they believe it only guarantees members of state militias such as National Guard units the rights to own guns. How did public opinion square with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment prior to 2008? Did the Court do the right thing when it incorporated the Second Amendment?

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 Strongly agree: 48%

 Mildly agree: 18%

 Mildly disagree: 13%

 Strongly disagree: 15%

 Don’t know: 7%

Note: How did those surveyed in this poll respond when asked whether they agreed that “The First Amendment requires a clear separation between church and state”? What do you think “a clear separation between church and state” means? Is the answer obvious?

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Abortion laws around the world, 2019.

To save the woman’s life or prohibited altogether: Mexico; Guatemala; El Salvador; Honduras; Costa Rica; Panama; Dominican Republic; Jamaica; Venezuela; Suriname; Brazil; Chile; Paraguay; Mauritania; Mali; Senegal; Cote d’Ivoire; Nigeria; Gabon; Congo; Angola; Madagascar; Malawi; Tanzania; Somalia; Uganda; South Sudan; Sudan; Libya; Egypt; Syria; Iraq; Yemen; Oman; United Arab Emirates; Iran; Afghanistan; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Myanmar; Vietnam; Philippines; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea

To preserve health: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; Bolivia; Argentina; Morocco; Algeria Niger; Chad; countries around Cote d’Ivoire; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Democratic Republic of Congo; Kenya; Eritrea; Namibia; Botswana; Zimbabwe; Lesotho; Jordan; Saudi Arabia; Pakistan; Poland; Northern Ireland; Thailand Malaysia; New Zealand

Socioeconomic grounds: United Kingdom; Finland; Ethiopia; Zambia; India; Taiwan; Japan

Without restriction as to reason: United States; Canada; Guyana; French Guiana; Uruguay; South Africa; Mozambique; Tunisia; all of Europe except U.K., Poland, and Finland; all countries from Russia to China; Vietnam; Cambodia; Australia

Data unavailable: Western Sahara

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The horizontal axis lists the countries and the vertical axis shows the numbers from 0 to 450 in increments of 50.

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 Somalia: 13

 Singapore: 13

 Pakistan: 14 plus

 Japan: 15

 U.S.A.: 25

 Egypt: 43 plus

 Iraq: 52 plus

 Vietnam: 85 plus

 Saudi Arabia: 149

 Iran: 253 plus

 China: somewhere in the range of 400 to 450

Note: Plus signs indicate that the figure calculated by Amnesty International is a minimum.

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The survey respondents were asked, “Are you in favor of the death penalty for a person convicted of murder?”

The horizontal axis shows the dates of the survey from 1st to 6th of December 1937 to October 1 to 10 of 2018. The vertical axis shows the percent from 0 to 100.

The lines representing those in favor and those not in favor follow a symmetrical pattern.

The details are as follows, with all values approximated from the graph.

Favor: The line starts at 60% in 1937, drops to 42% in 1966 and then rises to peak at 80% from 1988 to 1995 before dropping gradually to end at 55% in 2018.

Not in favor: The line starts at 32% in 1937, rises to 48% in 1966 and then drops to a low of 8% in 1995 before rising gradually to end at 40% in 2018.