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In reply to the discussion: Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary [View all]jaysunb
(11,856 posts)57. Please let us know the answer.
seriously, because that is a very very good question.
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I see nothing about your views and activities to suggest you are progressive...
Eleanors38
May 2013
#100
you pretty much only post from the right on one issue here --guns but you expect us...
CreekDog
May 2013
#135
Actually, I'm very liberal on the Second. What did you think of Occupy in your area?
Eleanors38
May 2013
#139
We need standardized testing to make sure teachers are doing their job! (nt)
reACTIONary
May 2013
#113
like rotten fruit the lone/tiny group nutcases will drop off the vines and act out.
Sunlei
May 2013
#80
Do they think they're going to have to strap on a bandelaro and head to the mountains?
htuttle
May 2013
#6
Is the suggestion of hanging those folks an endorsement of the death penalty? nt
bike man
May 2013
#105
I have no problems for death penalties for insurrection, pedos or other heinous crimes.
Katashi_itto
May 2013
#117
that's about the same percentage as the proportion of American voters comprising...
mike_c
May 2013
#8
I wonder how many of this "29%" would lose their stomach for rebellion as soon as they faced a burst
Victor_c3
May 2013
#20
Brilliantly phrased poll question. What percentage thought that the moon MIGHT be made of Jello? n/t
Bossy Monkey
May 2013
#21
shocking to see that opposing gun regulation is predictive of being a Sandy Hook Truther
geek tragedy
May 2013
#22
And you would get the same racist baggers who are talking about an "armed rebellion" eom
rdharma
May 2013
#35
See the civil war. Same people would lose just as bad as the traitors lost back then.
graham4anything
May 2013
#52
The faux newzed, dittoheaded, hannitized, gun-loving, bible-thumping, RW moron crowd.
DCBob
May 2013
#38
That is just about 80-20 or 75-25 NOT. Extremists on both sides need to be rendered obsolete.
graham4anything
May 2013
#51
I think you would be looking more at states succeeding rather than little groups of people
davidn3600
May 2013
#62
And just how do they think they will win against drones, heavy artillery, tanks
RoccoR5955
May 2013
#74
don't understand what that 29% of armed idiots? internet overloaded? want to shoot?
Sunlei
May 2013
#78
Yea well our masters will call out the army on any rebelion and our beloved soldiers will kill them.
L0oniX
May 2013
#84
an armed rebellion in this country would be no different than one in the middle east.
olddad56
May 2013
#93
soon = when there aren't enough Republicans left in Congress to plausibly surrender to
yurbud
May 2013
#103
Poor old Honest Abe! Unreconstructed secessionists have taken over his party
struggle4progress
May 2013
#110
If we tried to pass COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM (CCFR) we would need to arm
Dustlawyer
May 2013
#121
They may be right. These southern know nothing's may need their ass trashed again
on point
May 2013
#129