Nearly A Third Of Democrats Believe It Should Be Illegal To Join NRA

By Tom Knighton

People have always joined groups that support certain causes. Some people support the ACLU’s state mission of preserving civil liberties. Others join the Anti-Defamation Leauge in an effort to support their stated mission. People join all kinds of groups for all kinds of reasons. It’s kind of why we have so many groups out there.

The problems start when people decide that you shouldn’t be allowed to join groups that they don’t like.

For example, if Republicans started supporting bans on ACLU membership, those who support that group would be understandably outraged. It’s one thing to oppose a group or its mission, but quite another to want to ban membership in a group that doesn’t actually hurt people.

Despite that, though, it seems a lot of Democrats don’t really get it. Maybe that’s why almost a third of Democrats surveyed recently think it should be illegal to join the National Rifle Association.

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.

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Source:: Bearing Arms