The National Rifle Association and its allies have found their political influence under fresh scrutiny as gun control advocates push for new restrictions and corporations sever their ties in the wake of the deadly high school shooting last month in Parkland, Florida. But outside the gun control debate in Washington, membership in the NRA and gun rights groups across the country, which includes more than five million Americans, is spiking, according to people familiar with the numbers.
The spike isn’t a surprise, as such increases happen whenever people feel their Second Amendment rights are under threat, and many groups reported similar surges after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. But as gun control groups seek to use the anti-NRA backlash to mobilize their grassroots, recruitment this time seems to have taken on a more urgent tone.
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I believe we are seeing an unintended coincidence, in response to the deep state push to ban guns. I’m willing to bet the vast majority of those new members in the NRA or Second Amendment groups do not understand their motives. I am seeing “non-political” people on edge. They have no idea what or why, but they have a visceral instinct something is going wrong. Many or most of the new members have not rationalized their membership. They just know on some basic level something is badly wrong and they need to do something.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I think the left mis-figured the response by the “silent majority.” The left’s actions have created a mistrust and uncertainty for the future. I think there is a vast group of people that pay no attention to politics. But they sense there is something wrong and are making changes they do not understand. The average man on the street is moving back to what America was before the progressives went crazy.
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Very interesting hypothesis. Thanks.
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