Soviet poster. ‘Comrades, turn in your weapons’.
Posted on 09/10/2019 2:05:26 AM PDT by familyop
The National Rifle Association is America’s largest gun rights organization with more than five million members. But a sizable number of Democrats views it as a terrorist group and believes it should be against the law for Americans to belong to pro-gun rights organizations like the NRA.
Following several recent mass shootings, officials in San Francisco declared the NRA a domestic terrorist organization. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that nearly one-out-of-three Likely Democratic Voters (32%) favor declaring the gun rights group a terrorist organization in the community where they live. Fourteen percent (14%) of Republicans and 20% of voters not affiliated with either major party agree. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Democrats say Americans should be prohibited by law from belonging to pro-gun rights organizations like the NRA, a view shared by 15% of Republicans and 10% of unaffiliateds.
Among all likely voters, 23% favor declaring the NRA a terrorist organization in their home community, while 18% think it should be against the law to belong to pro-gun rights groups like the NRA.
Only 13% believe NRA members are more likely to commit a crime with a gun. A plurality (47%) says members of the group are less likely to commit such a crime, while 28% think the level of gun crime by NRA members is about the same as in the population at large. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided.
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Eighty-two percent (82%) of Democrats and 64% of unaffiliated voters want stricter gun control, compared to 45% of Republicans. But 57% of all Americans believe stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws is more important than putting new gun control laws on the books.
Fifty percent (50%) of voters share a favorable impression of the NRA; 44% do not. This includes 30% with a Very Favorable view of the group and 33% with a Very Unfavorable one. These views are virtually unchanged from March of last year.
Favorables for the NRA have ranged from 49% to 54% in surveys since 2011.
Republicans (78%) are far more likely to have a favorable opinion of the NRA than Democrats (32%) and unaffiliated voters (42%). But even among Democrats, only 17% think NRA members are more likely to commit a crime with a gun.
Voters under 40 are far more supportive than their elders of making it illegal to belong to gun rights groups like the NRA.
While Americans argue over the availability of guns, most of those with a gun in their house continue to say it makes them feel safer.
Seventy percent (70%) agree with President Trump when he said, “It’s not the gun that pulls the trigger; it’s the person that pulls the trigger.”
Attorney General William Barr hopes to make it easier and quicker to sentence mass shooters to death, and most Americans think that’s a good idea. Interestingly, however, these findings come at a time when support for the death penalty in general has fallen to a new low.
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Soviet poster. ‘Comrades, turn in your weapons’.
With a prez who signed a bump stock ban, called for red flag rules and whom has a gun control package in congress.. And based on the anecdotal responses of support I have seen for all 3 of these measures, I am sure the real number is higher.
However statistically soeaking, anything under 20 percent is not surprising.
Dems will get gun control under a Republican prez.
The NRA has been largely silent political pimps. Gun Owners of America has been working on spreading the word.
Until the family of tyrants that runs the NRA, leaves the NRA, not a cent.
Ummm ... Guess they never heard of Freedom of Association ...
Prob. same ratio that believe ‘lesser of 2 evils’ is a *winning* philosophy.
Nothing wrong with hanging either. Look around you when you go to any store. I have never seen so many lazy workers from the cash register to stocker types. I have never had one young boy/man ask if he could work in my yard or do anything to earn money. These kids have been raised playing games and being taught by NEA pukes.
I’d wager that a higher % than that would say that the 2nd Amendment itself should bet abolished. And percentages are rising for 1st Amendment abolition as well.
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Democrats are increasingly eager to shove the Constitution into a shredder.
Were the rules on cursing recently changed? Seems we have a few posters who can’t communicate without four-letter words.
Or thinly-disguised ones.
“a view shared by 15% of Republicans”
Something is amiss with this. Also are there any other constitutional ammendments one cannot support?
So, we members of the NRA are now terrorists? Guess racism label didn’t work so now the flavor-of-the-month label is terrorist.
officials in San Francisco declared the NRA a domestic terrorist organization.
These numbers only PROVE the need for guns and for the NRA.
This PROVES that Democrats will make political opinions illegal. Soon after, follows the pogroms.
It should be illegal to join the democrat socialist/ communist party. Those who do are traitors who should have their citizenship revoked.
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