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America: Land of the free and home of censorship?

A new study by Pew Research shows that American Millennials are far more likely to support the government banning offensive speech about minority groups than other generations.

Of those aged 18-34, 40 percent support censoring offensive speech.

"We asked whether people believe that citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Four-in-ten Millennials say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups, while 58% said such speech is OK."

Although this statistic might be shocking to some free speech advocates, it really should be taken with a large grain of salt.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans still say "offensive speech" should be allowed. And out of 38 other nations polled, the median was 35 percent.

There's also a difference in education levels and support for limiting speech. Those with a high school degree or less are 9-percentage-points more likely to support censorship.

You can draw your own conclusions with that last statistic.

GOP Presidential candidate (and serial water sipper) Marco Rubio took a break from campaigning in Iowa today to totally annihilate a kid in the head with a football.

You can watch the short clip above, but it is even better in GIF form.

Marco Rubio hitting the kid in the face with the football is even better as a GIF pic.twitter.com/FLpnHz0un0

— Mudacris (@moody) August 18, 2015

And even better in Pokémon GIF form.

marco rubio out in iowa just trying to catch em all tbh @Mirandacgreen pic.twitter.com/An37A0Vtxo

— darth™ (@darth) August 18, 2015