Posted on 09/10/2019 2:05:26 AM PDT by familyop
The National Rifle Association is Americas 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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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 5 and 8, 2019 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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, Its not the gun that pulls the trigger; its 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 thats 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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And 60% of the colonists said it should be illegal to join America or had no opinion.
What’s next, Forearm Tattoos and Clothing Patches?
So then assuming the demographic split among Party affiliation to be roughly 1/3 each D/R/I here is what we know from this.
For the Dems 28% 0f 35% equals 9.8% of all Americans believe it criminal to belong to NRA. On Rep side it would be about half or 4.8% of Americans and for Ind that # is about 3.5.
All told about 18% of the country believes NRA membership should be prohibited.
Given out great divide in this Nation at this time these numbers are not significant.
...or CAIR, BLM, Black Panthers, etc...etc.
FMCDH(BITS)
Amen.
Breaking: 28% of Americans are idiots. (See footnote: Obama elected twice.)
Just think what the percentages would be were the question, should it be illegal to join the KKK?
Not that I know of and speaking of that, you might wanna edit out the language on your profile page.
Remember: Scott Rasmussen doesn’t own his poll anymore.
Western culture can be defended from barbarians with firearms if the barbarians are literally at the gate. Otherwise it's a political issue, but more broadly it is philosophical. People have to learn or be taught western philosophy.
Church will be next.
If I weren’t 71 I’d go for a life time membership.
I’ve got a life time CCW Permit as I hate going to the DMV.
I don't see them as a "front" organization.
They don't try to hide it anymore. They are a full-blown commie organization by their own admission.
And from the politicking on the stump the democRATic presidential candidates are doing, they are proud to be commies.
Instead of going about their own business, they want to make what other people like, against the law.
How liberal of them.
It's tantamount to conservatives calling for Planned Parenthood to be declared illegal to access.
Planned Parenthood has physically murdered thousands of innocent babies.
Last time I check, the NRA hasn't murdered anyone with their lobbying efforts.
One more example of how the Left wants to destroy America.
A read of my profile and a log off was a part of your duties?
I see where we are headed.
Those fargin iceholes should know better ; )
Does this really mean that 15% of Repubs are GOA members? /s
Its really what this is now. Full unabashed support for full on communism. (Socialism at the gunpoint of government)
100% traitorous.
100% of present and former NRA members say that the 28% and the 15% can go f@#$ themselves, and review the 1st Amendment along with the 2nd. I quit because I got annoyed getting all those magazines. Sure. 2nd Amendment is great. Ra ra siss boom ba. But how much can anyone be into guns? It got boring.
Well, this will make it easier for me to assert all libs and Green newDeal Rinos are terrorists. Witch hunt is on, let us give it to them. No more of this McCarthy crying bS. The only reasonthey gave Jane Fonda a pass is because she supported a deep state in Hanoi.
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