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By Dean Weingarten

 

U.S.A. -(Ammoland.com)- In a Rasmussen poll conducted on September 5th and 8th, 2019, 28% of Democrats in the sample of 1,000 likely voters thought Americans should be prohibited, by law, from belonging to the National Rifle Association, or other groups that support enforcement of Second Amendment rights. From rasmussenreports.com:

 

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.

 

I have written about the mindset of people who are voluntarily unarmed. My observation is people who are voluntarily unarmed know they need some form of armed protection, some of the time. They resolve this issue by relying on the government for their armed protection. To do so, they believe in a combination of two things, in a variable ratio.

 

One, the government is benign, capable of protecting them, and not capable of malevolent actions, at least against them.

 

Two, the need for armed protection is minimal, and will never, or almost never be necessary for them.

 

Part one of this belief system translates into a desire that government not be limited in any way. If the government is limited, it might not be able to protect you when it needs to do so; if it is benign, there is nothing to fear from a government with unlimited power.

 

For many people who are voluntarily unarmed, any restrictions on other people (other than the government) being armed is desirable. Prohibiting people from belonging to organizations that promote the right to keep and bear arms is acceptable because the voluntarily disarmed do not see it as any limitation on them. They plan on never belong to the National Rifle Association; therefore a ban on belonging to the NRA is not a problem. This is reflected in the Rasmussen poll. Here is the question: From rasmussenreports.com:

 

4* Should Americans be prohibited by law from belonging to pro-gun rights organizations like the NRA?

 

This is simple special pleading: Take from someone else, but not me. The 28% number applied to Democrat voters. The percentage of all voters was 18%. This is very close to the number who think any limitation on government is immoral, recorded by Rasmussen at 20% on 23-24 March of 2019.

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