Posted on 04/05/2013 11:43:49 AM PDT by neverdem
A sizable number of Americans think the federal government is coming after their guns.
Forty-four percent (44%) of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that the government will try to confiscate all privately owned guns over the next generation or so, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifty percent (50%) feel gun confiscation is unlikely. This includes 20% who think the government is Very Likely to make this move and 23% who say it’s Not At All Likely...
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on March 30-31, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC...
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Your post is spot on. If states can infringe on the 2A, then by the same logic they could demand that citizens quarter troops.
Any infringement is Unconstitutional.
See the problem? 50% of the people are idiots.
I’m not that worried...
The day may come when they (government) decide we are not capable of posessing these weapons...
We will see, at that time, a re-tooling of those in our community to address this issue...
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