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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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, “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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“...The DNC has become a Communist Front organization....”
POTUS has ripped the mask of em....They didn’t like because it ain’t lookin’ too good for them.
They’re 100% communist to their very core. They are no longer the traditional democrat of long ago. These azzhats are full-bore communists hellbent on destroying this country and everything it stands for...including you and I.
They want to officially tag the NRA as a domestic terrorist organization so that they can subpoena the NRA membership list. With that, they’ll get one of their liberal judge friends and WILL RED FLAG EVERY MEMBER!!!
They envision confiscating millions of firearm from the hand of American citizens with this method. I envision “hell on earth”.....for them.
That shows the appalling lack of education among younger voters, and particularly left leaning young people. I guess they have never really learned about freedom of association, and what the 1st Amendment is about.
How many of them would support laws making it illegal to belong to other groups? What would they say is someone proposed that it should be illegal to belong to a group with certain political beliefs, like the Democratic Socialists of America? How about someone passing a law making it illegal to belong to groups that advocate for veganism, or any other idea.
If the poll isn't fake news, then it really does show a total lack of understanding of the fundamental ideas of our nation.
A VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT, AT ANY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT, IS A VOTE AGAINST AMERICA!
[It would appear that there are some RINOs in the anti-American category, also!]
Total insanity.
Thanks for posting this.
It also shows an appalling increase in single motherhood.
You’re most welcome.
American Revolution and Civil War are great to study. I love history. But I really don’t need more advice on how to sportify a Browning 1911 or how to make a lever-action rifle work like Lucas McCain’s in The Rifleman, or the factory specs on the latest Glock and how it’s better than the last Glock. Wish I owned a gun, but instead my walking stick will have to do for defense.
I see. That makes good sense.
I’m not really in it for the magazines and haven’t read them for some time, although some relatives do. My reason for membership is for the education of anyone who is interested.
Then there’s nraila.org for all who are interested in legislative and judicial efforts. Now is one of those times. There’s no pecuniary benefit for me. But the freedoms are for all of us including me, and more importantly, those who come after me.
There are those who will someday take what they desire by way of the sword (those who live by the sword)—not to be confused with the lions who will run through them.
Antifa is a branch of the Democrat Party.
There are some who would say, "That couldn't possibly happen in the United States." I wager the Russians, Chinese, Cambodians and every other country where ethnic and cultural cleansing has taken place also believed it just couldn't happen to them...
Antifa is a branch of the Democrat Party. ...................... Obviously, they have to take their marching orders from their controllers, who provide their financial backing. Useful idiots only, need to apply.
Due to high levels of toxins, it will soon be illegal to be a white man.
I was born and raised in a middle class working town in north eastern New Jersey. I could see the Manhattan skyline from my bedroom window. I now live on The Jersey Shore. I’m a former liberal. You don’t have to educate me on the importance of the 2nd. Amendment. It is the most important right We The People have. It makes all the others possible.
15% of Never Trumper Yeb! Kasich, Romney, pajama boi / soy Boi, DC Think Tank republicans.
In other words, the worthless losers who have lost all influence and have their little girl/boi panties in a bunch.
So roughly 22% of those polled are against liberty. No shocker there are that many losers in such a poll.
Pity that we cannot BANISH anyone who is STUPID enough to be ANTI-2nd Amendment to Cuba, Somalia, Venezuela, or some other SOCIALIST hellhole, FOREVER.
Yours, TMN78247
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