A recent poll from The Washington Post-University of Maryland showed that the number of Americans who think it's justified for citizens to take violent action against the government is on the rise.
34% of Americans think violence against the government can be justified, up from 23% in 2015 and 16% in 2010, according to the poll.
According to The Washington Post, 40% of Republicans said violent actions could be justified compared to 23% of Democrats.
People with college degrees were more likely to say violence was acceptable. Only 18% of Black Americans thought violence was justified, compared to 40% of white Americans.
The Post reported that a majority of people said that violence was never justified, but that's a decrease from the 1990s when as many as 90 percent of people said it was justified.
Respondents said the government violating or taking away people's rights was a justification for violence.
Beverly Lucas told the Post that it might be time when the government no longer represents the people.
Lucas, a Republican who says she voted for Trump, told the Post that the January 6 insurrection helped inform her point of view. She said she was horrified by the images of the mob, but that she could see a way to use violence if it wasn't possible.
