• AutoTL;DRB
    link
    English
    102 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It found that 10 percent of those surveyed said that the “use of force is justified to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president.” A third of those who gave that answer also said they owned a gun.

    Seven percent of those surveyed said they “support force to restore Trump to the presidency.” Half of them said they owned guns.

    The shooting at Mr. Trump’s rally “is a consequence of such significant support for political violence in our country,” Mr. Pape wrote in an email.

    “Indeed, significant lone wolf attacks motivated by political violence have been growing for years in the United States, against members of Congress from both parties as well as federal officials and national leaders.”

    In October, the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, published a report that found nearly 14 percent of those surveyed strongly agreed that there would be a civil war in the United States in the next few years.

    Nearly 8 percent of respondents to the study said they believed there would be a situation in the next few years where political violence would be justified and were intending to arm themselves.


    The original article contains 258 words, the summary contains 192 words. Saved 26%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!