Democrats Keep Attacking NRA, Driving UP The Civil Rights Group’s Favorability Ratings

By Bob Owens

The news just keeps getting worse for the three Democrats still in contention for the 2016 Presidential elections.

Jim Webb and Lincoln Chaffee have quit the race for the top of the Democrat ticket, leaving Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley still in the race… and apparently intent on seeing who can take the most radically anti-gun position.

O’Malley and Clinton both explicitly called the nation’s oldest civil rights group—the National Rifle Association—their “enemy” during the first Democrat debate.

It looks like their strategy, and for that matter, their professed hatred for the NRA, is backfiring spectacularly.

Gun control activists have demonized the organization, anti-gun rights groups have held protests against them, President Obama has accused them of wielding too much political power and Hillary Clinton has compared them to terrorists. Yet, the National Rifle Association still has the support of the American majority.

Yet in a Gallup poll from Oct. 7-11, a solid majority of Americans (58%) say they have an overall favorable impression of the NRA. This includes the highest recording of “very favorable” opinions (26%) since Gallup began asking this question in 1989. In December 2012, soon after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms