Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion May be Necessary

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/armed-rebellion-poll.php

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.

The poll also found that 25 percent of voters believe the American public is being lied to about the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting by people seeking to promote a political agenda

Sahil Kapur

Personally, I think it's pretty damn stupid that some people think we will need to fight our own government in the next few years. I also think it's stupid that people are buying into the Sandy Hook conspiracies.

But I do think they worded the question a little to vaguely, I think if they would have changed "might be necesarry" to "will be necessary" they would have had a significantly less amount of people agreeing with the statement

What do you guys think? Will an armed revolution be needed? Was Sandy Hook staged?

I suppose the colonies thought as you did as well at one point....anyway....we really aren't at that kind of need at this moment. And no Sandy Hook wasn't staged.

no better way to get others to support your cause than by taking up arms and killing a bunch of people....

its united states americans right to raise arms against the government, my personal oppinon is people need to grow some balls and say no

I guarantee you of that 29% there are very few people who would truly be ready to carry that out.

No one thought a few rebels could take out Gadaffi; could happen. Fightingfan

I wonder what percentage of that 29% can accurately name a single "liberty" the government is taking away from themJML897

29%

good luck with that.

if you think for a second the noobs in the national guard would not shoot you down like a dog in the street there is a memorial  at  kent state you may want to see.

How would a modern day revolution go about? Like who would attack who?Fightingfan

I guess it would be the people vs dictator Obama

I don't think anytime soon, but I can see a revolution occurring during my lifetime. 

I wonder what percentage of that 29% can accurately name a single "liberty" the government is taking away from themJML897

They likely can't, and even if they could they'd be exercising a liberty by saying so in the first place. I've always found that funny, people bitch and moan and protest about the government in so many ways, but in doing so they are exercising a key liberty that our government awards its people. Amusing.

Why don't you guys just start some new parties and vote for them instead?

good luck with that.if you think for a second the noobs in the national guard would not shoot you down like a dog in the street there is a memorial  at  kent state you may want to see.

Riverwolf007

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]How would a modern day revolution go about? Like who would attack who?Bane_09

I guess it would be the people vs dictator Obama

Obama is a democratic President, we elected him. Go spend time in a country with an actual dictator and learn more about what you're saying.

Why don't you guys just start some new parties and vote for them instead?

themajormayor

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]How would a modern day revolution go about? Like who would attack who?Blueresident87

I guess it would be the people vs dictator Obama

Obama is a democratic President, we elected him. Go spend time in a country with an actual dictator and learn more about what you're saying.

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]How would a modern day revolution go about? Like who would attack who?Blueresident87

I guess it would be the people vs dictator Obama

Obama is a democratic President, we elected him. Go spend time in a country with an actual dictator and learn more about what you're saying.

lolz, I wasn't being serious. Although I'm sure that's how the people in poll think of him

[QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

I guess it would be the people vs dictator Obama

Fightingfan

Obama is a democratic President, we elected him. Go spend time in a country with an actual dictator and learn more about what you're saying.

Yep, and if Germany won the war that wouldn't have been a problem.

And comparing Obama to Hitler Really? That's ridiculous...

In the American revolution less then that wanted an armed rebellion so I suppose it could be technically possible. ferrari2001

[QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

[QUOTE="Bane_09"]

I guess it would be the people vs dictator Obama

Fightingfan

Obama is a democratic President, we elected him. Go spend time in a country with an actual dictator and learn more about what you're saying.

EDIT or Lenin and the Russian revolution under the guise of more freedom for the people eroded by the government.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]

[QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

Obama is a democratic President, we elected him. Go spend time in a country with an actual dictator and learn more about what you're saying.

Blueresident87

Yep, and if Germany won the war that wouldn't have been a problem.

And comparing Obama to Hitler Really? That's ridiculous...

[QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"] The German people elected Hitler

Fightingfan

Yep, and if Germany won the war that wouldn't have been a problem.

And comparing Obama to Hitler Really? That's ridiculous...

[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]

good luck with that.if you think for a second the noobs in the national guard would not shoot you down like a dog in the street there is a memorial  at  kent state you may want to see.

 

ferrari2001

people do what you tell them to do.

how many experements on control and human nature do you need to see because there are dozens out there.

Why did so many of the participants in this experiment perform a seemingly sadistic act on the instruction of an authority figure? According to Milgram, there are a number of situational factors that can explain such high levels of obedience:

• The physical presence of an authority figure dramatically increased compliance.
• The fact that the study was sponsored by Yale (a trusted and authoritative academic institution) led many participants to believe that the experiment must be safe.
• The selection of teacher and learner status seemed random.
• Participants assumed that the experimenter was a competent
• expert.
• The shocks were said to be painful, not dangerous.

http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/milgram.htm

Forty years ago a group of students hoping to make a bit of holiday money turned up at a basement in Stanford University, California, for what was to become one of the most notorious experiments in the study of human psychology.

The idea was simple - take a group of volunteers, tell half of them they are prisoners, the other half prison wardens, place them in a makeshift jail and watch what happens.

The Stanford prison experiment was supposed to last two weeks but was ended abruptly just six days later, after a string of mental breakdowns, an outbreak of sadism and a hunger strike.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14564182

the entire world is 5 days away from it being a global  remake of the lord of the flies and nobody realizes it.

pretty funny stuff.

I am 99% confident that the military, most of the military at least, has the backs of the civilians.  I have never met a vet that was not a libertarian and didnt end up hating the government lol.

Pretty sure that if armed rebellion did become necessary, the armed forces would be like "Its cool, bro, we got this" for us and would park a few tanks on the right lawns and ring the right doorbells and politely demand change

I do not know if Sandy Hook was staged. It is suspicious that there were so many mass shootings in the months leading up to Obama's decision to try to ban guns, but I do not have enough information to know. Regardless of whether we are being lied to about Sandy Hook, it is obvious that the MSM and anti-constitutionalist politicians like Obama are exploiting it to promote gun restrictions. What I do know is that if the government ever tries to ban guns entirely then there will be an armed rebellion or it will mean the death of every principle that this nation was founded on. When the government says that you have no right to defend yourself from it then your only options are to fight it or to live as a slave.Laihendi

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"][QUOTE="Blueresident87"]

Yep, and if Germany won the war that wouldn't have been a problem.

And comparing Obama to Hitler Really? That's ridiculous...

blue_hazy_basic

He said "Obama is a democratic President, we elected him" being elected doesn't negate you from being a dictator.

You can have a totalitarian dictator who was elected democratically.

More and more conspiracy theorists, more and more stupidity.

I do not know if Sandy Hook was staged. It is suspicious that there were so many mass shootings in the months leading up to Obama's decision to try to ban guns, but I do not have enough information to know. Regardless of whether we are being lied to about Sandy Hook, it is obvious that the MSM and anti-constitutionalist politicians like Obama are exploiting it to promote gun restrictions. What I do know is that if the government ever tries to ban guns entirely then there will be an armed rebellion or it will mean the death of every principle that this nation was founded on. When the government says that you have no right to defend yourself from it then your only options are to fight it or to live as a slave.Laihendi

Politicians using idsaster for political gain?

When people say "sandy hook was staged", what does that mean? People are lying, and their kids never really died because they never existed? Fightingfan

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]When people say "sandy hook was staged", what does that mean? People are lying, and their kids never really died because they never existed? Laihendi

The government perpetrating the muder of dozens children for political gain? Even the looniest of citizens can't believe that.

[QUOTE="Laihendi"][QUOTE="Fightingfan"]When people say "sandy hook was staged", what does that mean? People are lying, and their kids never really died because they never existed? jimkabrhel

The government perpetrating the muder of dozens children for political gain? Even the looniest of citizens can't believe that.

It's not really a secret that various major companies can easily wave some money in some senators faces to make they do what they want, but I doubt there'll be a armed revolution. And Sandy Hooks wasn't staged, I can't understand where that theory came fromTreflis

Alright, more useless polls

I do not know if Sandy Hook was staged. It is suspicious that there were so many mass shootings in the months leading up to Obama's decision to try to ban guns, but I do not have enough information to know. Regardless of whether we are being lied to about Sandy Hook, it is obvious that the MSM and anti-constitutionalist politicians like Obama are exploiting it to promote gun restrictions. What I do know is that if the government ever tries to ban guns entirely then there will be an armed rebellion or it will mean the death of every principle that this nation was founded on. When the government says that you have no right to defend yourself from it then your only options are to fight it or to live as a slave.Laihendi

Laihendi, saying something reasonable? What has the world come to? 

[QUOTE="Laihendi"][QUOTE="Fightingfan"]When people say "sandy hook was staged", what does that mean? People are lying, and their kids never really died because they never existed? jimkabrhel

The government perpetrating the muder of dozens children for political gain? Even the looniest of citizens can't believe that.

[QUOTE="jimkabrhel"]

[QUOTE="Laihendi"] I think what people generally mean is that the government set it up to create a huge media event and rally public support for new gun restrictions.Laihendi

The government perpetrating the muder of dozens children for political gain? Even the looniest of citizens can't believe that.