To be clear: These are folks who are already suspicious of, and hostile toward, their unarmed and peaceful Muslim neighbors. Imagine how shocked they’d be at the prospect of legally armed Muslims living next door to them. With NRA membership cards and concealed-carry permits to boot. Oh, the horror!

Think of how they’d react to the potential PR campaigns: glossy photos of hijab-clad women wielding AR-15 assault rifles at their local gun range; billboard ads claiming that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is … a good Muslim with a gun”; viral hashtags such as #muslimsforNRA or #Allahlovesguns.

Conservatives would lose their minds. They’d be torn between their supposedly principled allegiance to the Second Amendment and their fear and loathing of Muslims. That’s why a mass membership drive by Muslim-Americans would simultaneously undermine the NRA, the Second Amendment, and America’s toxic gun culture.