{"id":32615,"date":"2013-05-10T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/we-cant-let-hatred-and-gun-paranoia-silence-our-great-democracy\/32615\/"},"modified":"2013-05-10T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T22:28:00","slug":"we-cant-let-hatred-and-gun-paranoia-silence-our-great-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/we-cant-let-hatred-and-gun-paranoia-silence-our-great-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"We Can&#039;t Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/41024913\/0\/alternet~We-Cant-Let-Hatred-and-Gun-Paranoia-Silence-Our-Great-Democracy\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/files\/styles\/thumbnail\/public\/story_images\/photo_1366082323962-2-0_8.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><span class=\"field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden\"><span class=\"field-items\"><span class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">May 10, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em> \u00a0|  <\/p>\n<div class=\"article_insert_container\">\n<div id=\"insert_ilikethis\">\n<div id=\"block-altsubscription-subscribe-node-inline\" class=\"block block-altsubscription first odd count-1\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"insert_ilikethis\">\n<p>Like this article?<\/p>\n<p>Join our email list:<\/p>\n<h3>Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.block -->\n\t      <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <!-- BODY --><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This article  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\">first appeared on BillMoyers.com<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cIt is interesting to me that Bill Moyers, who every week describes the massive levels of corruption in our government\u2026 [and] the advocates for gun control don\u2019t 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>About the same time that man\u2019s post showed up on the web, we saw the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/armed-revolution-44-republicans-article-1.1332621\">startling survey<\/a>\u00a0from Fairleigh Dickinson University\u2019s PublicMind polling organization, the one finding that nearly three in ten registered voters agree with the statement: \u201cIn the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.\u201d Three out of  <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/41024913\/0\/alternet~We-Cant-Let-Hatred-and-Gun-Paranoia-Silence-Our-Great-Democracy\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"We Can&#039;t Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy\">AlterNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10, 2013 \u00a0| Like this article? 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