Posted on 01/20/2009 8:58:09 AM PST by bmwcyle
The Capitol Police said that there were easily 500 gun owners at the 1/19/2009 VCDL rally at the General Assembly!
Oh, and there was a grand total of TWO anti-gun protesters there today, neither one looking very happy.
With the liberal press interviewing them
A roll of "Guns Save Lives" stickers were handed out indicates that the total count of VCDL members that were at the General Assembly today was right at 600 - that's a 50% increase from last year's 400 attendees!
Everywhere I turned, there were those VCDL stickers. Teams of VCDL members were going in and out of the state legislator's offices for two hours.
From what I've seen and heard, we were well received everywhere. (My DEM Representative blew me off. A letter to follow to him.)
The rallies at the Bell Tower in Richmond, VA had some fantastic speakers and the weather cooperated nicely - those of you who could not make it this year really missed out.
They were there to be heard as delegates and senators prepare to take up gun bills this session.
Those who support gun rights listened to speakers at the Bell Tower before fanning out to talk to individual legislators about guns rights.
VCDL says false impressions about gun shows and gun dealers have been created, and they hope to set the record straight. One of these issues is the gun show loophole. They want to require volunteer gun dealer at gun shows to do background checks on private sales between people guns shows have checks completed. What dealer is going to volunteer? This would also extend to private sales in your home and guns handed down to your children. This is about the registration of guns only.
"There is no loophole. There is nothing you can do at a gun show that you can't do outside a show. It would have made no difference at Virginia Tech. It's just a scheme to register guns and we are not going to let it pass by," says Phillip Van Cleave, a rally organizer.
"Sometimes people meet at gun shows, but otherwise a dealer must do a background check. It's a felony if he doesn't," says Ward Fetrow with the Virginia Citizens Defense League.
There have already been two meetings of the crime commission in VA this year. The meetings have been packed. Last week in Richmond, some Virginia Tech parents and others seeking to close the gun show loophole held a rally of their own. Both sides will try to get legislators to support their views during the legislative session. VCDL supports the right to carry on campus and schools.
VCDL wants a repeal of the state's ban on carrying concealed weapons in restaurants. The VCDL would like to change the requirement to open carry of guns in a place serving spirits. Why walk around in a crowded restaurant with a gun on your side when you can have it neatly concealed away where no one even knows it's there and not make an issue out of it.
The VCDL members walked the halls of the state power with guns on their side meeting their local reps handing out bill VCDL position papers. We out numbered by far The Brady group and the Million Mom Marchers who were most like in Washington for their Furor.
Some of the speakers were are follows:
Larry Pratt (GUN Owners of America) and Ken Cuccinelli (R) (My State Senator)
Mary Katherine Ham (Townhall.com)
Reverend Ken Blanchard, author of “Black Man with a Gun”
Jeff Knox (Firearmscoalition.org)
Dave Yates (VCDL Executive Member who headed up VCDL's effort on National Park Carry)
The Crowd of VCDL Members
Freeper thekid51, also the VCDL member who was hassled by the Norfolk, VA police for legal open carry of firearm (took $10,000.00 from the city. He was hassled the second time 4 days later after his judgment. His lawyer should have a new settlement soon.), and me
Liberals seem to still want to deny honest black men their rights and give felons more more rights.
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And more importantly we need to control the debate and the language and terms when dealing with this (and every) issue.
GUNS SAVE LIVES. They save an astronomical number of lives versus the ones that are taken by guns.
Further, guns save INNOCENT lives. Guns save the lives of people who would otherwise be VICTIMS without guns. Guns most often take the lives of criminals. Talk to police officers about guns killing criminals. Talk to people who kill their criminal attackers.
Guns in law abiding hands equalizes the playing field between criminal thug and law abiding citizen.
It has been proven around the world that armed citizens decrease the crime rate and disarmed citizens cause crime rates to increase. the UK, Australia are classic examples.
YOu would think that after all this time the left bitches and moans about all these inalienable rights to abort, to have universal health care, and given many of them are atheists and think this existence is it, that they would be most adamant in allowing people to protect their own lives with deadly force, if it came down to it. They’d fight with a conservative to the death over idealogy. Yet they’d whimper and roll over and let a criminal thug murder them because they didn’t believe in guns, or that their life was worth enough for them to defend it with a gun.
This VCDL member votes for secession.
The left creates its own religion, rules, laws, rights, etc.
No matter what happens, we will be fighting for our rights.
I had planned on being there, but caught a cold late last week and couldn’t shake it by Mon morning.
Happy to hear other VCDL members carried the load!
There will be more to do soon.
“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”
—George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 14 June 1778
AMEN
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