Posted on 03/20/2018 6:35:06 PM PDT by Simon Green
A proposed City of Richmond School Safety resolution asks Congress to ban “large-capacity ammunition cartridges.”
The proposed resolution also calls on Congress to “ban the manufacture, sale, purchase, possession, and use of assault weapons.”
It also asks to implement “universal background checks.” Such checks would require a background check for a private sale just like the background check currently required for a retail purchase. Ironically, almost every high-profile firearm-based attacker acquires his or her gun via background checks at retail sales, so such an expansion would do nothing to prevent future attacks.
To date, attackers that do not acquire firearms via background checks most often get their guns via thievery. For example, the Parkland, Florida, school attacker passed a background check for his rifle, while the Sandy Hook Elementary attacker stole his guns. Universal background checks would not have prevented either attack.
The proposed Richmond school safety resolution voices opposition to arming teachers for self-defense, even as it calls for more gun control outside of schools. The resolution says, “The School Board and [Richmond Public Schools] is opposed to the arming of teachers to protect schools and children.”
Moreover, the proposed resolution calls for extending gun-free school zones. It should be noted that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was not only a gun-free zone but an ammunition-free zone as well, yet none of these designations mattered to the gunman who was intent on taking lives of defenseless individuals.
The proposed resolution also calls on Congress to fund “programs to educate students and their families on the dangers of firearms.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Justin Mattingly reports the school board is expected to take up the school safety resolution at its next meetin
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They said large, so 155mm :)
Congress just needs to ignore this stupidity.
It might as well be with liberals infesting its school board.
When it was pointed out their resolution makes no sense, a spokesman from the City of Richmond denounced criticism saying, “Everyone knows we are talking about 30 caliber clips.”
Richmond is run by idiots & this is a good example of some of their thinking .... double down on anything that doesn’t work.
Is that true or are you being funny?
The demographics have changed in VA.
Its now a southern NJ. Conservative VA is outvoted by liberal Yankees in the Washington suburbs.
Well, I was trying.
I guess someone probably said, “double ought” and they thought it was a high capacity bullet.”
//sarc
You can call it demographic creep....
Things have changed since the turn of the century and not in a pretty way.
I thought it was funny. Unfortunately, it was also something I have no problem believing a Richmond politician would actually say. That is why I had to ask.
If it gets past the school board, I will be surprised. Sounds like a civics class project, written by students hoping to get on CNN.
At least you can still get that “thing that goes up”.
Someone thought that they sounded smart and understood the language. Epic fail.
Yup. This is what we’re up against.
And things are going to get appreciably worse. With people who have no sympathy for a fundamental American right.
You’re preaching to the choir. I’ve lived in various places around the the Commonwealth of Virginia for 53-1/2 of the 54 years of my life.
Twenty years ago, I could not see myself ever living anywhere else. These days, states like Wyoming are looking like pretty good places to retire.
IIRC, weren’t shotguns used by gangsters for massacres during Prohibition?
Yes. God help us if congress ever bans those...
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