{"id":4398,"date":"2013-05-06T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4398"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T11:51:28","slug":"armed-revolution-44-of-republicans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4398","title":{"rendered":"Armed revolution 44% of Republicans say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nearly half of Republican voters beileve that armed revolution may soon be coming to the United States, a new poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University has found.<\/p>\n

Think of it as an alternate definition for the term \u201cgun control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nearly half of all Republicans surveyed said they believed that \u201can armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years,\u201d a new poll<\/p>\n

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While 44% of registered Republican voters indicated that they believed armed rebellion would soon be a reality in the U.S., just 18% of Democrats agreed. As for Independent voters, 27% indicated that guns would soon be used to settle the country\u2019s political problems.<\/p>\n

The partisan gap on the question of whether armed revolution will soon play a role in America\u2019s political history mirrors the differences in opinion on gun control. While 50% of those surveyed said that new gun control legislation was necessary to protect the public, just 24% of Republicans said new laws were needed. A whopping 73% of Democrats favored new legislation, the survey found.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there was a bipartisan moment after Sandy Hook to pass gun control legislation, it\u2019s past,\u201d Dan Cassino, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson, said in a press release. \u201cPartisan views have strongly re-asserted themselves, and there\u2019s no sign that they\u2019ll get any weaker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conspiracy theorists would also seem to have partisan leanings, according to the poll. Asked whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement: \u201cSome people are hiding the truth about the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in order to advance a political agenda,\u201d 45% of Republicans said they either agreed or weren\u2019t sure, compared with 29% of Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe differences in views of gun legislation are really a function of differences in what people believe guns are for,\u201d Cassino said. \u201cIf you truly believe an armed revolution is possible in the near future, you need weapons and you\u2019re going to be wary about government efforts to take them away.\u201d – Daily News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nearly half of Republican voters beileve that armed revolution may soon be coming to the United States, a new poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University has found. Think of it as an alternate definition for the term \u201cgun control.\u201d Nearly half of all Republicans surveyed said they believed that \u201can armed revolution in order to protect … Continue reading “Armed revolution 44% of Republicans say”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2751,592,2126],"class_list":["post-4398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-armed-revolutiion","tag-gun-control","tag-republicans"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/guncontroll.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4398\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}