WAR IS COMING! 50% of Americans believe country is headed for CIVIL WAR in next few years

According to the study, there is a growing tendency to settle political disagreements with violence. Almost a fifth of respondents told them that it was likely they would be "armed with a gun" at a political flash point in the next couple of years, while four per cent admitted it was likely they would "shoot someone with a gun."

University public health expert Garen Wintemute, who led the study, described his findings as "pretty grim" and that they "exceeded our worst expectations". However, the expert said there was still some "hope" considering most respondents "rejected political violence altogether."

Wintemute noted that the study was a wake-up call for people to "recognize the threat" and respond accordingly. The 42-page document described a "continuing alienation from and mistrust of American democratic society and its institutions," adding that "substantial minorities of the population" endorsed "violence, including lethal violence, to obtain political objectives."

The study comes at the heels of a spate of mass shootings across the country, including a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Some other key moments that contributed to the growing tensions include the January 6 Capitol riot and frequent clashes between cops and Black Lives Matter activists in the past couple of years.

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Last month, a similar study led by Tulchin Research and the Southern Poverty Law Center found that 44 per cent of Americans believed the nation was headed toward another civil war. Meanwhile, a YouGov survey last week noted growing calls for secession of multiple states from the union. More than a third of former President Donald J Trump's supporters living in red states said they would be "better off" if their state split from the center, while another 29 per cent of Trump fans believed such a secession would leave them "worse off." The status quo is nearly two years after President Joe Biden's promise to "unite" and "heal" the country following the political turmoil under his predecessor. 

It's worth noting that more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives during the US Civil War from 1861-1865 when southern states fought to break from the union in order to maintain their slave-driven plantation economies, the Daily Mail reported.