LOL at all the liberals giving money to a group that defends the constitution, how silly is that amirite?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union
Neo-Nazis get denied a permit to march through a black neighborhood and the ACLU is there.
Washington DC violates the second amendment for decades and the ACLU is silent.
NRA is not in the business of protecting the First Amendment, and they're upfront about it.
Why do you have a different standard for ACLU compared to NRA? You're saying that you're unwilling to financially supporting them, not based on what they do, but based on what they do not. How does what they do not diminish the utility of what they do?
The ACLU claims to be in the business of protecting the constitution, not only the parts that people with left of center politics like.
They're liars.
NRA is not in the business of protecting the First Amendment, and they're upfront about it.
The NRA is a gun owner's lobbying organization. Their primary activity is the promotion of the second amendment but they have fought for the first amendment. The NRA Civil Defense Fund has taken up First Amendment cases too.
Why do you have a different standard for ACLU compared to NRA?
I don't. The ACLU lies.
You're saying that you're unwilling to financially supporting them, not based on what they do, but based on what they do not. How does what they do not diminish the utility of what they do?
Because the ACLU doesn't defend the Constitution, they have weaponized it.
That's not how it works, at least not in my mind. When dealing with something that is assailed as frequently as gun rights, lack of support is the same as opposition.
I want an organization that supports the Constitution, completely and fully.
But then I hope you're not sending a single cent of your money to NRA, either? I mean, they also don't "support the Constitution, completely and fully", right?
Or is that okay because they're explicitly scoped to the Second Amendment?
If so, then ACLU is in the same exact boat, being explicitly scoped to everything other than the Second. And then some: ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, not American Constitutional Liberties Union - US Constitution to them is a tool to aid in protecting the civil rights they care about, it's not a definitive list of rights that are worth defending.
ACLU position: Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free State," the ACLU has long taken the position that the Second Amendment protects a collective right rather than an individual right.
It's my position that that ACLU is wrong and will never see a penny from me.
They protect civil rights, not whatever people who wrote the Constitution 200 years go thought civil rights should be.