Posted on 12/25/2019 3:58:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam apologized for his medical school blackface stunt, but he will have much more to apologize for if he signs into law a bill that attacks Virginia citizens' Second Amendment rights. The measure is Senate Bill 16, which would ban "assault" firearms and certain firearm magazines. Since Democrats have seized control of Virginia's General Assembly, they are likely to push hard for strict gun control laws. Those laws will have zero impact on Virginia's criminals and a heavy impact on Virginia's law-abiding citizens who own, or intend to own, semi-automatic weapons for hunting or their protection. As a friend once explained to me, "I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop."
I am proud of my fellow Virginians' response to the attack on their Second Amendment rights. Firearm owners in the state have joined with sheriffs to form Second Amendment sanctuary counties. That means local authorities will be required to protect Second Amendment rights in the face of any attempt by Virginia's General Assembly to abrogate those rights. Eighty-six counties -- over 90% -- in the Virginia commonwealth have adopted Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions. Spotsylvania County's board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution declaring that county police will not enforce state-level gun laws that violate Second Amendment rights.
Sheriff Chad Cubbage said, "Be it be known that the Page Sheriff hereby declares Page County, Virginia, as a 'Second Amendment Sanctuary,' and that the Page County Sheriff hereby declares its intent to oppose any infringement on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms." Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins made a vow during a board of supervisors meeting, where the board unanimously agreed to declare the county a Second Amendment constitutional county, to "properly screen and deputize thousands of our law-abiding citizens to protect their constitutional right to own firearms."
In an attempt to appease citizen resistance, Northam suggested there would be a ban on only the sales of semi-automatic rifles. He would allow gun owners to keep their current AR-15s and similar rifles as long as they registered them. Otherwise, they must surrender the rifles. I'd urge Virginians not to fall for the registration trick. Knowing who owns what weapons is the first step to confiscation. Governor Northam further warned, "If we have constitutional laws on the books and law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books, then there are going to be consequences, but I'll cross that bridge if and when we get to it." Some Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say that local police who do not enforce gun control laws should face prosecution and even threats of the use of the National Guard.
Virginians must heed the words and capture the spirit of their two most distinguished citizens, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. These resolutions referred to the federal government but are just as applicable to state governments in principle. They said: "Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ... and whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
Too many Americans view the Second Amendment as granting Americans the right to own firearms to go hunting and for self-protection. But the framers of our Constitution had no such intent in mind. James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 46 wrote that the Constitution preserves "the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." Thomas Jefferson wrote: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
No he is right, the situation is completely understood, it is the question of whether anyone will truly get off their butts and do anything about it. 90% of those who say they will are going to duck and wait for someone else to do it because they have more important selfish priorities. So it won’t get done...
There won’t be a revolution, until there is. They tend to start with one inflammatory event, and snowball from there. The fact that we have acted with great restraint, so far, only legitimizes our future action.
PS: there has already been resistance in NY where most peole have redused to register semi-autos and magazines. What will spark any revolution is the government’s response to non-compliance. The first act of rebellion is to ignore your “rulers.”
Why didn’t Gov. Soul Man get booted out of office for his racism? Oh yea, DemonicRats don’t have to live by the same standards.
A lot didn’t vote for them and we don’t need to give up constitutional rights because dems won an election.
“Blah, blah, blah. Get back to me when some thing effective actually happens to stop the gun grabbers.”
LOL, you really are blind! You believe over 100 Counties in VA declaring themselves 2nd Amendment sanctuaries and publicly vowing to defy their Governor and resist what they consider to be an unconstitutional law is “nothing”?
I showed you a list of what led up to the Revolutionary war and either you lack any ability for comprehension of the written word or you just don’t get it.
Yes and yes.
Succession. Let Fairfax, Arlington, Falls Church and Loudoun become Blue State - call it East California. Move the POS governor to his new Capitol of Fairfax and let us be.
Taken from the end of the article...It is truly amazing how so many think that the Bill of Rights are 10 simplistic things that the government gives us that they can just as easily take away.
Obviously, that is what they’ve learned from the Leftist take over of our education system that started in the 60s, if not sooner.
None of us can predict what is going to happen in Virginia. Could be bad, could be an absolute disaster, or who knows? So much of our news can’t be trusted.
Northam says that he has no intention of calling up the NG.
Northam is also increasing the budget for his prisons.
As if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s wholesale attack on law-abiding gun owners wasn’t enough, the disgraced public official and his Michael Bloomberg-bought allies in the General Assembly now want the state’s hard-working taxpayers to foot the bill for their unconstitutional schemes. The budget bill (HB30) includes an appropriation of a quarter million dollars to carry out a host of gun control measures that Northam and his anti-gun allies hope to enact.
The $250,000 is appropriated to the Corrections Special Reserve Fund in order to provide for the “increase in the operating cost of adult correctional facilities resulting from the enactment” of Northam’s gun control measures.
Strange and, potentially, dangerous times ahead for the US. And think, it isn’t even November 2020, where we will see things only thought to happen in the 3rd world.
BRILLANT!
and Merry Christmas
Thousands showing up at courthouses and 90 or more localities declaring themselves as 2A sanctuaries. Basicly saying they aren’t going to enforce any gun grabbing laws along with Sheriff’s saying they will not enforce the law is nothing ? The dems already know they can’t enforce any gun law now.
And I have provided a past list of events leading up to our Revolutionary War. The lead up to the war began with protests just like what is happening in VA.
FYI many, MANY of the settlers were against the idea of a war with England but as we now know it is not necessarily the amount of men in the fight but the amount of fight in the men which will determine who is victorious.
They had heart, purpose, and courage in those days. They were not lazy or afraid of physical labor. Now days we have remote controls and will not part from these addictive conveniences... The important priorities in life...
>>That is civil disobedience, not a revolution.<<
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The Boston Tea Party was an act of civil disobedience. To where did that event lead?
So true. But, you are referencing a time in history when people were used to fighting for their freedoms. That is not the case today. Besides, it's not going to be an instant gun grab by the authorities. It will start with things like sending you a letter stating that they know you have XXX guns and if you don't turn them in, you won't be able to get your drivers license renewed, buy insurance, or borrow money. So, what will you do then? Are you going to start walking and paying cash, or are you going to turn in those guns? My bet is that about 75 percent of the gun owners will comply. Then, they will start offering rewards for people to rat out their neighbors for owning these evil guns. Now, once they've whittled down the gun owners to a manageable number with measures like these, then they can realistically go door to door after them. And, then, it will be a piece of cake once a handful of resistors are legally killed for putting up a fight.
Yes, you better hope that if it's going to be a violent revolution, that it happens fast while there are still guns in the hands of the people. Because if the government has it's way, it will be a slow and steady process until one day you wake up and your grand kids ask you what a gun used to look like.
I agree. Your description of an incrementally approach is how it will go down. After all, seatbelts were never going to be mandatory either.
Before anything you describe happens there will be a long drawn out court battle and there is no doubt in my mind anyway that it reaches the USSC.
There is also the possibility and a very strong one that the voters in VA after seeing what their vote has brought them in 2018 revolt at the voting booth and throw those responsible for these laws right the hell out. And you only need to look back to 2010 to see the possibility of that.
A Muslim Rat legislator has submitted a bill to allow the State to override local zoning and allow high density housing in single family neighborhoods.
WATCH HIS OTHER HAND! What other bills is he trying to get past while you are distracted fighting for 2nd Amendment rights!
Wouldn't it be preferable to have two guaranteed liberal senators from the state of North Virginia and two guaranteed conservative senators from the state of South Virginia? That way there would be a net of 0 Virginia lib senators, rather than a net of the +2 that we are now experiencing.
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