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Should it be Illegal to Join the NRA?

Over the past two decades, Democrats have been pushing very hard to do away with the Second Amendment. Both nationally and at state levels, many Democrats have pushed legislation to restrict gun ownership as much as possible. In some states, such as New York, Maryland and California and cities like Chicago, Baltimore and Los Angeles, Democrats have succeeded in passing numerous restrictive anti-Second Amendment laws and ordinances.

Ironically, those locations are among the nation’s leading areas with the highest incidence of gun violence, yet, Democrats are unwilling to admit the direct relationship between gun control and gun violence.

During the reign of Barack Hussein Obama, there was a huge push for more gun control laws, with some Democrats actually stating that their goal was to repeal the Second Amendment. Consequently, gun and ammunition sales hit record highs for several years. Membership in the National Rifle Association (NRA) also soared with the threat of anti-gun legislation being pushed by Democrats.

After the election of Donald Trump, it appeared that NRA membership and their finances followed the decline in gun and ammunition sales. With a pro-Second Amendment president, fears about gun bans diminished.

However, after a rash of crazies using guns for mass shootings, the call for stricter gun control, up to and including gun bans, have taken on a whole new level of political activity. Not only are most Democrats using gun violence to push more anti-gun legislation, but some RINOs have begun to join them. Consequently, membership in the NRA has again risen. In April 2019, it was reported that NRA membership had not only has NRA membership recovered from the decline after Trump took office, but the membership has reached the highest level ever, with about 5.5 million members.

Many believe that over the past few decades, it was the political influence of the NRA that has been the strongest voice to protect the Second Amendment rights of American citizens. The political influence of the NRA has been a bane for Democrats who are dead set on disarming the American people as part of their push to make America a socialist nation.

The anti-NRA mindset among Democrats has grown to such a point that many now believe that it should be illegal for anyone to join the membership, as reported:

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. 

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 uanffiliateds.

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.

This coincides with much of the anti-America, anti-Constitution, anti-rights, anti-freedom agenda. It’s all part of their plan to turn America into another Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Russia or China!

69 COMMENTS

  1. WHY —– SHOULD IT BE ILLEGAL TO BELONG TO A STRONG GUN CLUB LIKE THE NRA ?????? I have been a Life Member of the NRA since 1987 and was an Annual Member long before that, plus I am also an Annual Member of Gun Owners of America ( GOA) and I damn well am PROUD of my Long Term Membership in both Organizations . It would seem that the only reason for these Idiotic Anti-Gun Lunatics to be scared of any and all NRA Members , is the simple fact that they Hate Weapons of any Kind and Color and are just being pushed , by Democratic Anti-Gun Politicians that want to get rid of , ALL , of our Bill of Rights . Those Politicians seem to be Immigrants from other Countries that were basically given free Education Benefits and then ran for Political Offices in every State in the Union , just to get rid of our entire American Government for a ” Socialistic Type of Government ” as a Replacement. It would be extra nice or great if there was some way to send these Immigrant Political Bastards back where they came from , never to return to American Soil. TSgt., USAF Vietnam Vet., Retired.

    • That’s 100% right. Anybody and everybody who does not put their heart in the USA needs to get their ass out! This includes professional politicians who are either paid-off or skimming taxpayer’s money. Gimmiecrats. All Americans are not stupid- just the 50% who vote AND CONTINUE to vote for DEMONocrats in the hopes that they can get some trickle-down stolen American taxpayer money. Lie-beral DEMONocrats will be the downfall of this country. We can’t keep President Trump in office forever and eventually there will be another Corruptocrat there and THEY WILL BE BACK WITH A VENGEANCE and will attempt to undo everything beneficial that Trump has done. They will sell out our country just like HiLIARy would sell her mama for a dollar. I predict that Trump will be our last good President and for the people who realize it, even with all the DEMONocrat bullshit flying around, enjoy our country while you can because this is our swan song. It will never be this good again. With the blessing and assistance of the DEMONocrats and corrupt Republicans, our country is being invaded with human Kudzu infiltrating through our borders and these people are allowed to kill American citizens. Yet, they want to confiscate our self defense protection AT THE SAME TIME TRYING TO ABOLISH THE POLICE! What do you think the outcome of this will be without somebody like Trump standing up for us?! Even a blind man can see that everything is about money and everybody wants a savior except THE savior. I am not saying that Trump is the savior, but he is our last chance to turn our country around- if it does not happen now, IT NEVER WILL. Sgt., USAF, Vietnam (4 year enlistment)

  2. If it becomes illegal to join an organization that espouses a God-given Liberty, then it must also become illegal to join an organization that works to destroy Liberty. Lord knows there are plenty of those: ANTIFA, BLM, People for the American Way, CPUSA and many, many more. Too many to list…

    • MR. TOLER,,, I completely agree with you, all the organizations you stated are all backed by the MSM, CLINTONS and all their foreign Trash, who somehow have been voted into office in this country…..The next election will be a Fiasco, the Dems will wheel out every crooked means they have to get elected back into office….Should that happen, we can forget how this country used to be, it will go down the drain along with all the Decent people who have fought to save it….We need to stop these Traitors Now,

  3. The Demoncrat Party has become a gigantic left wing freak show. They want to take guns away from decent, honest citizens. The criminals will still have guns. The Demoncrat Party is on the side of the criminals!

  4. We have to vote these idiots out of any and all public office!!! Everyone has to vote in 2020!!! TRUMP 2020! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!!!!!…

    • Been a life member of the NRA since 1974. The NRA has always been an organization founded to help the citizens be well trained in marksmanship skills. Why the NRA is continually being called out everytime some nut shoots someone i am not sure. History shows us that a bad guy or gangs have always been around. Even, God forbid, before the NRA was founded. Once again history shows that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was to send a good guy with a gun after them. Hence the founding of the US Sheriffs Texas Rangers FBI Even highway patrol. So why would any intelligent person ever allow someone to take away their only protection from the bad guy who only has robbing raping pillaging or killing on his mind. Can any one answer that question.

  5. The whole aim of the useless, ignorant Dems is CONTROL….They want all things American banished, ie. the cheese burger, guns, ammunition, cars, in fact, everything this country stands for…..Also, they will tax the working public into bankruptcy…Only the poor, who believe everything they say because they want the free goodies, will defend them….They are not intelligent enough to figure out that everything they promise is so ridiculous you just have to laugh at them….Should you want to live under a DICTATORSHIP, then that will happen should these crooked, evil, beings get control of this country….We have guns to defend ourselves from this lot, not to shoot and kill innocent, decent people…That is their plan, disarm all people then they can do as they want, which wouldn’t be pretty….Hey, you Dem Voters, why don’t you check on how the countries who have Dictators as their leaders operate. Dictators DON’T give away anything for free, if you don’t have enough money saved to support yourselves THEY certainly won’t support you…..All you Dems should move out to a Third World Country and see how they live…..Need help packing???

  6. YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THE PROGRESSIVE SOCIALIST COMMUNIST FASCIST RACIST DEMOCRAT PARTY PLAN IS WORKING. THEY PROMOTE RACISM, VIOLENCE, MASS KILLING AND MURDER WITH GUNS SO THE STUPID PUBLIC WILL ENDORSE ABOLISHING THE SECOND AMENDMENT. THEY GET MENTALLY ILL SICK PEOPLE TO DO THEIR DIRTY WORK, THAN CRY DISARM AMERICANS. THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT THE ILLEGAL DRUGS AND GUNS COMING IN FROM MEXICO OR THE MURDER OF PEOPLE BY CRIMINALS AND ILLEGAL GANGS. THEY ONLY FOCUS ON THE NRA AND LAW BIDDING AMERICANS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN THE WAY OF A COMPLETE TAKE OVER OF OUR COUNTRY. THE NEWS/SOCIAL MEDIA, VIDEO GAME MAKERS, ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY PROMOTE HATE, MASS KILLING, VIOLENT MOVIES AND TV PROGRAMMING WITH GUN USE. THEY MAKE THESE LOW LIFE MURDERERS FAMOUS THAT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME. YOU NEVER HEAR ANY CRITICISM BY THE DEMONCRAT PARTY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PROMOTE VIOLENCE TO DISARM THE NATION. EVEN THE MENTAL HEALTH INDUSTRY KEEPS QUIET ABOUT THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS VIEWING VIOLENT MOVIES AND INTERACTING VIOLENT GAMES. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROTECTING AMERICAN CITIZENS, ITS ALL ABOUT POWER. THE DEMONCRAT PARTY KNOWS TO REMOVE OUR FREEDOMS THEY MUST FIRST ABOLISH THE SECOND AMENDMENT. THE ONLY FREEDOM/RIGHT WE HAVE THAT PROTECTS ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS. SECOND: PROMISE OF FREEBIES FOR EVERYTHING. IT WILL NOT MATTER TO THE BRAINLESS AND STUPID THAT FREEBIES WILL COST THEM EVERYTHING. THE WEALTHY DEMONCRATS LIKE COMRADES WARREN, PELOSI, SANDERS, BIDEN, GORE, SCHUMER AND THE REST WILL MAKE LAWS THAT ONLY THE PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING BUT ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO THINK IT IS FREE. EVEN GARBAGEWOOD THE CONTROLLED WEALTHY COMRADE ENTERTAINERS WILL NOT PAY.

  7. If the NRA is illegal – so should the naacp cause all what do is cause more racial divide in this country than anything else. if naacp is ok – then there should be an naawp to keep things EQUAL for all.

  8. They will have to take my guns out of my cold dead hands!!!!!! The NRA is NOT a terrorist organization, unlike the organization that the Democrats belong to,especially OAC! She is a terrorist herself.

  9. It should not be illegal to be a member of the NRA. This in no more illegal than being a member of the NAACP or any of those muslims knee creawlers!

  10. It would be better to make joining, belonging,or supporting the Democratic Party illegal. They’ve done more harm to our nation in the past 50 years than any other group.

  11. It is the right given by our forefathers to be able to keep and bear arms. No one should have the right to take this away from us. I belong to the NRA and my husband who was a hunter all his life. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people take our guns away and only the criminals will have guns and who will protecty us then not the Democrats I am sure.

  12. Is this even a serious question? In my estimation, it shouldn’t be illegal for an American citizen to join any organization he/she wants to join, including those that I, personally, find despicable, like the KKK and the Proud Boys.

  13. The NRA supports guns and people who know how to use them.
    Only the criminals will have guns if guns are banned. Good citizens have a right to have guns. What would happen if a criminal breaks into a house and the police are too far away to help?

    I support giving classes on how to use guns to help honest citizens.

  14. Banning an individual from supporting any organization, be it religious, political or socialogical go’s against the 1st amendment..

  15. Absolutely not, if that was the case. No one should join any political party as well. Either side is not endowed with common sense to see what actions are being taken in concerns to people’s lives or rights.

  16. Democrats are running scared in every sense of the word, If they think taking guns away from legal law abiding citizens is going to curb or change gun violence they are sadly mistaken all that is going to do is set up gun free zone targets for those idiots out there that want to kill people. Joining the NRA should be a personal choice and not that of our government. Democrats need to spend more time on solutions instead of their idiotic ways. I too am a proud member of the NRA. How is making it illegal to join the NRA gonna make any difference on gun violence. Democrats in Congress need to spend more time fixing the problems of the US instead of creating more and wasting our tax dollars on there BS. Since President Trump took office things in the United States are getting better by far in spite of the walls, accusations, and lies he is constantly facing by the Democrats. I will do my part to make sure he gets another four years of his wonderful leadership. And may he continue to support our Second Amendment rights while trying to find solutions on gun violence.

  17. How much crazier can all this bullshit get? I’ve been a life member of the NRA for a long time. I’m also a member of NAGR, and Wisconsin gun owners. I’m a veteran of the army’s 82nd airborne division (11b2p). I’ve owned guns and hunted my whole life. Don’t try to take my 2nd amendment rights away.

  18. Why should it be illegal. They sale their electronics to different countries to include china or communist countries. NRA is just like any other business entity that needs the techology. Really. Are you people sick.

  19. Why should it be illegal to join the NRA. They are not a terrorist group like ISIS or ANTIFA. Or a hate group like the KKK or the Neo-Nazis. They are a group sharing a common interest who believe in the second amendment.

  20. Please explain to me why anyone should be able to stop me from joining the NRA or have the nerve to even suggest what I can do or when I can do it. Vote President Trump and for all Rep in ever election until not one Dem is left to take our Rights away. Its up to Rep to solve this prob of Dem’s desire to make us all slaves to the Dem’s

  21. The NRA is a gun club I heard about it back in the sixty’s it is a club not terrorist group it provides training for the beginners as well as season gun owners. It is a good way to freshen up on things one forgets over the years on safety. As of to date so much has changed about owning and firing a rifle or pistol and the NRA is a good place to start

  22. What a sad pile of crap! Continuing to try and dictate to people what they can and can’t do is a dead end road. It’s like banning Oprah Winfrey from being part of weight watchers and just make her walk ten miles a day and only get water.

  23. Anyone can own a gun, but ascertained not a bit case. I don’t own a gun, but owning is a right I have decided not to exercise.

  24. It should not be illegal. NRA has wonderful and educational programs for the young and for starters. What I expect from membership and the NRA is a non-stop fight for the second amendment.

  25. The NRA is not a terrorist organization. The NRA protects the 2nd Amendment Rights of all Americans. It protects gun safety across this country. It mentors individuals on all levels and educates people on shooting principles and safety at ranges. I am a member of the NRA and I am proud of what this organization’s accomplishment. Members of the NRA are American patriots and responsible safe gun owners. Each time people(s) are shot in this country the NRA Is automatically the guilty party. Nothing about mental health, terrorists, or the criminal element in our country. It’s time to leave the NRA alone and attacking the real issues that plagues our nation.

  26. NO it’s good to be a member of the NRA to protect our Second Amendment rights and all these idiots that think it should be or idiots

  27. The Dems are stupid. The NRA has Never encouraged shooting people by people. It encourages education and is for people being responsible gun owners. Unless I have missed something, no NRA member has been a mass shooter.

  28. According to our constitution we have a right to own a gun.Granted there should be restrictions to buy one. This is where our so called politicians have failed.They have not made the proper restrictions preventing people that should not own one be able to buy one. DO NOT BLAME THE GUN ,BLAME THE POLITICIAN AND THE PERSON THAT DID THE SHOOTING!!!!!

  29. The NRA is a wonderful American organization.
    We will need them more than ever if any of the communist
    Demoncrats get into office. They have trained us in gun safety. Good well trained gun owners are not the problem!
    The democrats are with their hatred of a great President!
    They promote Violence with their rhetoric. I’m a life member
    Of the NRA. What needs to be illegal is Planned Parenthood,
    Antifa, the deep state. Like Hitler, they have to take God out of everything and guns out of America. They’ve already started with population control with abortion. I pray God will help us re-elect President Trump! The NRA needs to remain strong and in place. God Bless You!

  30. No.It isn’t wrong to join or support the NRA! It’s the right of every American to be able to protect their families,hunt for food ect., But,I do not believe the democrats are trying to stop ALL guns, just the massive ones that most sick’os use to kill school kids, shoppers, people they don’t even know!Can’t think of the type of name of these guns.But they fire like a machine gun.Very rapid,and don’t have to be reloaded for each shot.

  31. The new age liberals are so anti-American that I view them as terrorists and their goal is the elimination of truth and liberty as they slowly try to reduce our rights as Americans even going so far as declaring us as racists imperialistic humans and the rest of the world is a victim. Yet those poor foreigners come here and even as non-citizens they are still afforded the same rights such as free speech, due process, trial by jury, financial aid of all kinds, welfare, educational opportunities the right to drive and so on. Due to liberal sensitivities and their American guilt and crusader mentality they give in and accommodate any “ethnic” immigrant who cries mistreatment or is offended by cultural practices that have been carried out in this country for several years, decades and even hundreds of years. The liberals view the rights, preferences, concerns and desires of immigrants as suddenly more important than those of the established citizens and trump the status quo.
    This hatred for the NRA is simply a result of the liberal socialist resorting to the tactics of people who are incapable of admitting to the truth and having a logical, mature discussion. They utilize social media, fabricated and false narratives, and accusations followed by constant repetition of their propaganda to hopefully provide validation. They repeat it until is sounds like the truth, but a lie is a lie and when the lie fails to draw support they create new lies.
    They should apologize to the NRA and thank them for creating interest in shooting which has resulted in better military and law enforcement personnel. Often the best people have experience with firearms and are easier to train than those who had never handled a firearm. Now they will create a fear of firearms and our country will suffer.
    It’s the behavior of people with no honor or scruples to discredit those they disagree with and who will not bend to their will. The liberals today are anti-American and by the spirit of the Constitution should be removed from office and NEVER allowed to work in the government again.
    The Constitution was not designed and written to be dismantled or changed by tyrants and traitors, but to unite and empower the people to stop such scumbags from oppressing them. And this is why they want to disarm us and then they can create their single party government which I am sure these cowards would lose to their foreign allies who will immediately stab them in their backs and end up ruining our country. And after the smoke clears they will find themselves neither friends of the new regime nor welcomed by their fellow countrymen whom they turned on.
    They should leave the guns to those of us who can handle them, honor and obey the Constitution, serve the people and not themselves and their interests or the liberal agenda…. or leave the country since they find so much fault with the United States.

  32. No, it should not be illegal to belong to the NRA. The NRA supports the Constitution and so should all US citizens.

  33. I believe that the Democratic Party and All who belong to it should be declared a terrorist. They keep inciting trouble in America with their ” Strip ous of all Our Rights and give this country to illegals and violence.

  34. No it should not be illegal to join NRA that is the most stupid idea yet. We are a Constitutional Republic not socialism,not communism! We the people decide what we want to do not some globalists elites or liberal crybabies. The future does not belong to just them! America is land of the free and home of the brave and was settled by people wanting freedom and not under the thumb of some tyrannical elite!

  35. I’m an NRA Benefactor Life Member for years and before that was an annual member most of my life. The only reason libtards and anti-gun people are afraid and spreading fear from the NRA is THEY CAN’T CONTROL IT’S MEMBERS.

  36. They will try anything to get our guns even to brain washing our children. Its the only way to protect our selves. AND anyone who knows anything about metal working and a lathe can make a gun, It would make for a lot of private jobs,

  37. It should be illegal not to belong to the NRA. They support the 2nd amendment, This part of our Const. What should be illegal is that if you don’t support the Const. then you need to leave the U.S. Find a new country that will put up with your lies and bulls-I- .

  38. Oh Lord Forebid that we ever Ban that Protection or rhe Dumboocrat/Socialist (Not Patriotic Democrats) shall surely take our Freedoms away and they Rule; just like Hitler and Stalin did !!!

  39. I don’t usually go this far but the most direct way I can express my feelings toward these idiots is to say they can kiss my ass. Half of those bastards up there have or either do belong to the communist party. They have already tried to kill the electoral college, allow any terrorist into the country, openly said they back street violence, restricted law enforcement, said they would fight anything the president did for the nation, killed babies through abortion, and worked hard to kill the second amendment. I’m a three time combat veteran for this nation so YEP, they can kiss my ass.

  40. The People’s house hasbeen taken over by Anti Americans, I for one have enough them taking our Amendment Rights And Picking though All 27 To Destroy Our Rights! Thomas Jefferson Puts Rights Together Because He Though One Day Their Would Be Traitors In The Government Who Would Try To Over Throw Our President To Takeover OurNation And Here It Is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TRYING TO DO JUST THAT,GET RID TUMP AND MIKE THAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WILL BECOME PRESIDENT LET THAT SINK IN! IT’S TIME WE THE DEMAND JUSTICE STEP IN AND STOP CONGRESS FROM OVER POWERING OUR COUNTRY! WE THE PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT! WE SAY NO TO TAKING OUR GUNS,HOW ABUD DO YOUR JOBS AND TAKE MURDERS OFF THE STREETS,FINISH OUR BORDER WALL PROTECT OUR AND THE PEOPLE WITHIN! OR SHOULD WE GO BACK TO THE WILD WEST DAYS! THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO STEP UP AND TAKE ACTIONS!

  41. Absolutely “NOT” that is all the Dumbocrat/Socialists (Not Patriotic Democrats) need; is for Patriotic Americans to lay down their Second Amendment so like Hitler and Stalin the Dumbocrat/Socialists could just very easily say: You will OBEY Our every Order like it or not !!!

  42. It is STUPID to even ask! We are free to join anything we want to as long as we have Democracy. Socialism/Communism not so. Everything in Socialism is censored by the government and owned by the Govt. You own nothing and have no personal rights!

  43. Who in the world would vote for a demoncrat??? They are an embarrassment to this nation and to themselves. Let us get rid of them please, while we still have a constitution! The Dems are just frustrated that they don’t run this country after all.

  44. June 10, 1978 a former employee (dope head) and a St.Louis street hoodlum tried to shoot their way into my home. The street hoodlum emptied a 357 handgun thru my door and the “dope head” fired one round with a shotgun into my door. I returned fire with my hand gun and the punks fled. Every day has been a
    bonus since then. I know that my handgun saved both my wife and I from certain death had the punks gained entry. Listen carefully liberals: DON’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF TRYING TO TAKE MY GUNS!!!!!

  45. We Conservatives need to understand one thing . The socialist,communist,liberal ,stinkin, Un-Patriotic democrat,TRAITOR TRASH in D.C. and those who support them all suffer from the “L.O.C.S. Syndrome”! It’s called the “LACK OF COMMON SENSE Syndrome” and you can identify them when they start spewing their B.S.out of their Blowholes ! It is what”s plaguing Conservatives when we try to explain “COMMON SENSE ISSUES”! BUT,…….We must persevere !

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