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Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary
Talking Points Memo ^ | 5/01/2013 | Sahil Kapur

Posted on 05/01/2013 2:25:07 PM PDT by GregNH

Three in 10 registered American voters believe an armed rebellion might be necessary in the next few years, according to the results of a staggering poll released Wednesday by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind.

The survey, aimed at measuring public attitudes toward gun issues, found that 29 percent of Americans agree with the statement, “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” An additional five percent were unsure.

Eighteen percent of Democrats said an armed revolt “might be necessary,” as compared to 27 percent of independents and 44 percent of Republicans. Support levels were similar among males and females but higher among less educated voters.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; government; guncontrol; secondamendment
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1 posted on 05/01/2013 2:25:07 PM PDT by GregNH
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To: Travis McGee; LucyT; MestaMachine

Ping


2 posted on 05/01/2013 2:28:14 PM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: GregNH

Is that all? Lol.


3 posted on 05/01/2013 2:28:35 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: GregNH
I believe that for the American Revolution at any given time the percentage of the population actively involved in it was about 10% or so.

Resident AmRev historians can put legs on that number.

DHS is buying ammo, but so is everyone else.

4 posted on 05/01/2013 2:28:39 PM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: GregNH

College grads disagree...qu’elle surprise.


5 posted on 05/01/2013 2:28:57 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: GregNH

I’m thinking that the percentage who believe a second revolution may be coming is higher than they indicate and higher among the educated than the less educated. I belive der Fuehrer and his party will likely generate a 1776 moment; another shot heard round the world if you will.


6 posted on 05/01/2013 2:30:09 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: GregNH

Those who agreed were reported to the Department of Homeland Security....


7 posted on 05/01/2013 2:31:47 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: GregNH

29% is very similar to the numbers just before the War of Independence. Just sayin’.


8 posted on 05/01/2013 2:33:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: GregNH

I wish they had asked “Veteran or Non-Veteran” too. Would be nice to see how many people who are trained to make loud noises and break things think that rebellion is coming.


9 posted on 05/01/2013 2:33:35 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: who knows what evil?

Don’t take that as fact. Very many of us with college degrees at various levels believe this is becoming more and more possible and many of us are getting ready to defend the Constitution and reestablish the Republic. Among those of us who are prior or retired military there are even more. We swore to protect and defend the Constitution and many of us still hold that oath as a responsibility.


10 posted on 05/01/2013 2:33:57 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: GregNH

Interestingly, another poll revealed 71% of all Americans are clueless (100% of the 47% totally clueless are subsumed into this figure).


11 posted on 05/01/2013 2:36:12 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (LBJ declared war on poverty and lost. Barack Obama declared war on prosperity and won. /csmusaret)
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To: Billthedrill; RJS1950

I think the bigger surprise for me is that the number who disagree is less than 50%!


12 posted on 05/01/2013 2:36:39 PM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: GregNH

“higher among less educated voters.”

What, like inner city minorities? I’m so sick of this disgusting elitist attitude to anyone without a degree in queer-theory. These East-West coast nobility drones have such disdain for the “99%” they claim to love. We are dealing with a cabal of Hollywood and Intelligentsia monarchs, and the Mooch is Marie Antoinette!


13 posted on 05/01/2013 2:37:12 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: GregNH
29% and half the population is asleep or drinking Kool-Aid.

Doesn't sound good for petty tyrants.

14 posted on 05/01/2013 2:37:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: GregNH

33% pretty soon...if this poll is right.

What is surprising to me about this poll is the percentage of women almost equals the percentage of men.


15 posted on 05/01/2013 2:37:35 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Billthedrill

I had ancestors who were Minutemen in their towns and who were soldiers; one who was on Washington’s personal guard detail. I have as much desire to defend the Constitution and rebuild our Republic as they did in establishing it.


16 posted on 05/01/2013 2:38:02 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Bosco

About a third were for the Revolution

About a third were Loyalists

About a third were spectators

As I seem to recall.

We may be closer than I have thought. There may not be much more time left.


17 posted on 05/01/2013 2:40:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: GregNH

My oath to, “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” has no expiration date, not until they carve my expiration date on a tombstone.


18 posted on 05/01/2013 2:42:12 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: GregNH

We no longer have a free press or free election process.


19 posted on 05/01/2013 2:42:21 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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