Posted on 01/21/2016 3:27:44 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra
RICHMOND - A Virginia Senate panel on Wednesday scrapped a raft of gun-control bills while advancing measures intended to expand gun rights.
Among the legislation was one, proposed by Sen. George L. Barker (D-Fairfax), that would have created a way for authorities to remove firearms from people deemed by a Circuit Court judge to be at "substantial risk" of injury to themselves or others.
"There are people slipping through the cracks who are a danger," said Lori Haas, a gun-safety activist whose daughter was injured in the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. "It is not meant to send somebody into your home unnecessarily."
The Republican-led Senate Courts of Justice Committee easily defeated that bill and others aiming to tighten gun restrictions, sometimes on party-line votes, sometimes with support from a gun-rights Democrat, Sen. R. Creigh Deeds of rural Bath County. In so doing, members often voiced concerns about the constitutionality of the measures.
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Thus a democrats definition of "expanding rights".
You know, this “remove guns from people we don’t like” crap is going to become law sooner or later. And eventually, a man is going to kill a bunch of cops because they came to his house and attempted to confiscate his guns because the bidy next door complained about the NRA sticker on his pickup truck. And other gun owners are going to hear about it. And some of us are going to take it serious enough to start hunting the people down who are responsible. “Gun-safety” advocates and the politicians who support them, who wouldn’t know the Four Rules of Gun Safety if they were printed on the dildo they use every night. Sick of it. Sick of all this.
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