Posted on 12/25/2019 12:07:40 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
As if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northams wholesale attack on law-abiding gun owners wasnt enough, the disgraced public official and his Michael Bloomberg-bought allies in the General Assembly now want the states 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 Northams gun control measures. Among the enumerated laws that this allocation is meant to fund is a ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, the criminalization of private firearms transfers, and gun confiscation orders issued without due process.Aside from the insult of forcing law-abiding Virginia taxpayers to pay for the diminution of their rights, the gun control allocation is a severe waste of resources. Northams Bloomberg-backed gun control measures will not make Virginia safer.
In additional to being unconstitutional, a ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms will not reduce violent crime.
Long guns of any description are rarely used in violent crime. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data breaks down homicides by weapon type. In 2018, the FBI reported that there were five times as many individuals listed as killed with knives or cutting instruments, than with rifles of any kind. The data also showed that rifles were listed as being used in less homicides than blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.) or personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.).
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“What IS IMPORTANT is that we Conservatives sat out the election last month to teach the GOP a lesson for running RINOs and GOPe types, and now the GOP is PAYING THE PRICE for ignoring us (even if it means our people going to jail).”
Seriously, is that all you got? “we Conservatives” sat out the election? Nothing constructive? Just invective?
Is that why you didn’t you vote? You did say “we” here.
In your view, blame the people affected by this, not the people trying to enable a plainly unconstitutional law? **spit** People like you are an encumbrance, not any help at all. Do the rest of us a favor and stay home. We don’t need “help” from people like you.
Hell is murky! Fie, my Lord, fie...a soldier and afeared? What need we Fear who knows it, when none can call our power to Account?
MacBeth - William Shakespeare
is that what a comma underneath a letter is called! Thanks!
This crap is getting wacky.
Yes! That is a cedilla. When it’s under an “S” in Romanian it’s pronounced like a “SH” - Chowshescu.
Send in the lawyers. This is crying out for a preliminary injunction and some plain and fancy litigation.
thanks again, a linguistic lesson on Christmas Day! How neat!
Trump would be smart to let this just play out.
They may be trying to get Trump to make an error for impeachment purposes. Most likely.
What IS IMPORTANT is that we Conservatives sat out the election last month to teach the GOP a lesson for running RINOs and GOPe types, and now the GOP is PAYING THE PRICE for ignoring us (even if it means our people going to jail).
EXACTLY. The folks who are of that mind are not only cutting their OWN noses to spite their faces, but they damage the rest of republican voters by causing us to end up with democrat officials. To those of you FReepers who do that, GROW UP! That is NOT how you change things! You get out and join the party and try to affect it at the primary level to support viable candidates. If yours doesn’t win, you support the one that does. Do you think progressives refuse to vote for the nominee? No! We’ve got to stick together.
I knew they wanted to criminalize non-violent, honest people and at the same time allow violent criminals to keep their guns.
Death of a Dictator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8DQ-Axi1V0&feature=youtu.be
Worth the watch for a modern revolution.
“...communists (rats) being communists (rats), they’re going to try to enforce these laws in the dead of night....”
IF they’re gonna draw “first blood” thru crap like that then two can play that game in many, many ways....just sayin’.
“I suspect that this is the reason he wasnt forced to resign after the blackface issue. He made a backroom deal to go nuclear on gun owners.”
That is EXACTLY what I said a couple days ago. GMTA.
Gonna need a lot bigger morgue also.
Joseph Story. Supreme Court Justice
My pancake batter is made from scratch, Aunt Jemimah, my syrup is maple, and I will be happy to make you some!
The AG/SS goon and Gov. Blackface want registration first so the next time confiscation will be easier for their VSP goon squads. If he proclaims martial law to use the NG Trump just nationalizes it and tells them to stand down. The VSP goon squads could easily be taken out. They think they can arrest 50-75% of rural law enforcement and county and city government officials without issue.
What it all boils down to is they are hoping local law enforcement, governments and ultimately the citizens will be kowed into submission. If all three entities fiercely resist openly and even violently their bluff is called and they will call for feds. If Trump tells the feds stand down they have no where to turn, they back down. If you have a Democrat in the White House or even a Bush Republican you have the makings of a full blown sh$6 storm. But if the local government, law enforcement and citizens have already fired on state goon squads, they will fire on the JBT Fed versions as well.
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