OK back to work!
Posted on 02/18/2020 10:06:08 AM PST by Kaslin
It was supposed to be the best state government money could buy, bought and paid for by Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety for the purpose of overturning the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms in Patrick Henry’s Virginia. Bloomberg overwhelmed the NRA in spending during the Virginia state election campaign. As CNBC reported last November:
A gun-control lobbying group funded largely by billionaire Michael Bloomberg just helped Democrats take over the state government in Virginia -- right in the National Rifle Association’s backyard.
In Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats tipped the Virginia House and Senate in their favor, giving them full control of the state government for the first time since 1994.
While the results could be a good omen for Democrats’ chances in 2020, it may also be a tipping point in the money battle over gun rights. Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control advocacy group that the former New York mayor helps fund, spent $2.5 million this year to influence voters in Virginia versus approximately $300,000 by the NRA, which has its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.
Yet despite early success in Bloomberg’s Virginia House, the Virginia Senate stood fast for the Second Amendment as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-5 to reject House Bill 961 on February 17th. The bill is dead for this legislative session. As the Washington Times noted, it was a huge defeat for Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, famous for going beyond abortion-until-birth by proposing that babies who survive an abortion be made “comfortable” while they are left to die:
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Michael Bloomberg...yemach shemo.
Bought and paid for with laundered Chinese money!
“...spent $2.5 million this year to influence voters in Virginia versus approximately $300,000 by the NRA...”
NRA should stop squandering $ and knock off the incessant begging mailings.
I hope Northam’s political career is kept comfortable while it’s left to die.
For now——evil never quits. Also, there’s more confiscation bills n the pipeline. This is never over.
Since we rarely do anything other than hold the line, they just have to keep trying to move the line - at which point we continue to hold the line (there).
We need to push the other way, keeping more freedom bills in the pipeline. Find _anything_ that’s regulated/prohibited, and introduce bills removing those limits. If we win, we make progress. If we don’t, we tie up their resources fighting not just the line as is, but where we want it moved to - leaving less to get it where they want to go.
Introduce bills for everything good. Legalize silencers as health protection. Tax breaks on first AR15 purchase, and annual ammo purchase, for home & state defense preparedness. Blanket waiver of 922(o) for Selective Service registrants so they can be already familiar & equipped with a personal M4 (!) before a draft. End “gun free zones”; allow CCW anywhere without active checkpoint security. Allow suit against anyone who coerces disarming and subsequently suffers harm. Etc. All good stuff; package & promote it as the benefit it is, and in doing so force the Left to expend resources fighting it - make THEM hold the line, not us.
OK back to work!
...and Smithers as Mayor Pete.
wow......had to look that up
I’ve heard the observant say that when uttering the name Adolph Hitler.
Yeah ... and Flanders for Romney ... except that Flanders is actually sincere.
Personally I think the national democrat party had something to do with it. Despite their manufactured polls, they know that gun control is a loser. They also know they need Virginia in November, so they were willing to push the assault weapons ban to next year after the election when the voters won’t have any say again for another two years.
Let’s not forget universal Constitutional carry, and reforming the Form 4473 and Instant check program so that they can not be used for registration (and ultimately confiscation).
I would have a goal of eliminating Form 4473 entirely. Prior to the Gun Control Act of 1968, one could walk into a gun store, plop down cash, and walk out with a gun without any paperwork or showing of ID. And the streets were safer.
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