(Credit: a_v_d via Shutterstock/Salon) From defending the rights of Nazis to wave swastika in front of Jewish Holocaust survivors to standing for radio host Rush Limbaugh’s right to privacy, the American Civil Liberties Union has rarely shied away from defending some of the most offensive individuals and groups in the nation. But one group the ACLU will no longer stand up for: hate groups whose members show up brandishing firearms. “If a protest group insists, ‘No, we want to be able to carry loaded firearms,’ well, we don’t have to represent them.