We were struck this week by one response to our broadcast last week on
gun violence and the Newtown school killings. A visitor to the website
wrote, “It is interesting to me that Bill Moyers, who every week
describes the massive levels of corruption in our government… [and] the
advocates for gun control don’t understand that we who own guns in part
own them to be sure that when our government becomes so corrupt we have
guns to do something about it.”
About the same time that man’s post showed up on the web, we saw the startling survey from
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind polling organization, the
one finding that nearly three in ten registered voters agree with the
statement: “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be
necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Three out of ten! That
includes 44 percent of Republicans, 27 percent of independents and 18
percent of Democrats.
That poll also noted that a quarter of Americans think that facts about
the Newtown shootings “are being hidden,” and an additional 11 percent
“are unsure.” As Sahil Kapur wrote at Talking Points Memo:
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