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Virginia Governor Northam Increases Corrections Budget In Anticipation Of Jailing Gun Owners
Daily Caller ^ | 12/24/19 | NRA ILA

Posted on 12/25/2019 12:07:40 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal

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. 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. Northam’s 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guns; nra; prosecution; ralphnortham; secondamendment; virginia
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; Interesting Times

Hopefully this will shake the Republican Party, whatever of it there may still be, awake and into finding candidates to run in all of the state legislature districts where they didn’t have any one running in the last election.


161 posted on 12/25/2019 6:11:27 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Years ago spent a weekend at a distant family members home. He was one of the Harvard economist who help set up “The Great Society”.

Kind man but his bigotry of low expectation was jaw dropping!!!

(I was born in the same hospital as Michael Jackson and have played with kids from other races since I was about 5 or 6. There was no difference! We both loved Hide and Seek and Kick the Can!)

Candace Owens nails The Great Society. If Blacks are dependent on you, Blacks will keep you in power.

But millennial Blacks I work with notice they have been replaced by illegal aliens. They are now woke. (The non PC woke) and very pro-Trump and p.o.ed they were used.


162 posted on 12/25/2019 6:11:43 PM PST by lizma2
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To: hal ogen

For the 100th time, we Virginians DID NOT VOTE THIS COMMIE in office.

Our beloved Commonwealth was invaded and taken over by non-Virginians in the north near DC who suck at the federal gov. teat...and the billions of gov. $$$ have drawn commies from all over the world.

They simply out-numbered true Virginians.

So we are not like the Venezuelans who elected their disaster - we tried (Dave Brat), but the foreigners and invaders simply outnumber us.

So don’t criticize us - pray for us.

Please.........


163 posted on 12/25/2019 6:29:34 PM PST by Arlis
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To: Openurmind; bitt

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3803475/posts?page=19#19

Openurmind wrote:

https://www.governor.virginia.gov/constituent-services/communicating-with-the-governors-office/

“Take care and tread lightly. A call to arms has been passed around in many states now. This will not just be a Virginia issue. It will be a National issue.””

Thanks, openurmind, for posting this!

Ping to comment to the VA Gov.


164 posted on 12/25/2019 6:31:04 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Interesting. But no cedilla in most English fonts.

Anyway, he & his evil wife are dead thirty years ago today. A rumor was later spread that no video existed of their actual execution. Not true.

Governor Babykiller thinks he is as hermetically invulnerable as the dead Romanian despot. Maybe he will get that same deer in the headlights look as Ceaucescu when he gave his last speech to the masses.


165 posted on 12/25/2019 6:33:40 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: cableguymn
"...Or a well known public figure like Mark Levin or some other legal gun owner in the state that is well known to make an example of...." Yep. It's a well-known tactic of the communist regimes throughout their history. It's a tactic of "fear". The evil SOBs even pulled it on some of Trump's largest supporters. To do it in this situation though could become Gov. Blackface's "Timisoara event" just as it was for Nicolae Ceaușescu. It could easily become a rallying cry for thousands, if not millions, of armed patriots. IF so, in the end, he'd probably long for the day when he could have just simply resigned in disgrace.
166 posted on 12/25/2019 6:36:21 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

How is it possible to take a gun away from a man with a gun?


167 posted on 12/25/2019 6:37:19 PM PST by coaster123 (Those 40 or younger will meet horror before they meet death.)
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To: Truth29

Perhaps. Imagine the propaganda generated by a complicit media when cops are shot trying to take guns from lawful owners.


168 posted on 12/25/2019 6:52:07 PM PST by 556x45
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Like the guy said it’s the people’s job.


169 posted on 12/25/2019 6:54:53 PM PST by coaster123 (Those 40 or younger will meet horror before they meet death.)
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To: WildHighlander57

This is one Arizonian who is ready to support Virginia on this. If we don’t go help nip it in the bud there, it will spread like a wildfire to everywhere.


170 posted on 12/25/2019 6:55:49 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: chris37

“Spread that as far and as wide as you can!”

To what end? What will that accomplish?


171 posted on 12/25/2019 6:57:02 PM PST by coaster123 (Those 40 or younger will meet horror before they meet death.)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz

It is all talk right now. Nothing is new law and it is sad this is even a conversation in Va. But I am encouraged by the conversation. There will be no debate on this redline that shalt not be crossed.


172 posted on 12/25/2019 6:57:28 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And a Merry Christmas to you!


173 posted on 12/25/2019 7:00:25 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: samtheman

“Trump should be loudly proclaiming, from within the People’s State of Virginia”

It is the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The question is what will the people do?


174 posted on 12/25/2019 7:02:17 PM PST by coaster123 (Those 40 or younger will meet horror before they meet death.)
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To: 556x45; All
Lincoln initially asked for a puny number of state volunteers to force the original seven seceding states back into the union. Most northern;s at first thought secession was just a stunt and would collapse like a house cards with the first show of strength by the US. Governor Blackface would seem to be taking the same approach.
175 posted on 12/25/2019 7:05:36 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Conservatives used to be law enforcement’s only friends in govt but have reached the point where we can no longer support empowering the cops because they are using the cops against us.


176 posted on 12/25/2019 7:09:56 PM PST by Swarthy Greek Immigrant (MAGA! Deep State Delenda Est.)
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To: jimfree; All

The counties in the western side of Virginia and perhaps some in central Virginia will resist if this goes far enough. These are places where outsiders are noticed fast. Blocking State Police vehicles and other unmarked cars with sheriff;s department and volunteer deputies vehicles would be a fine approach. Plenty of good video taping done for each incident. If Governor Blackface is determined to be King George his minions have to be shown firing the first shot,


177 posted on 12/25/2019 7:13:08 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Who is running this?

There is no way Obama or Clinton would permit Bloomberg to stamp himself on a one-state 2A war headed by a Governor "Coonman". The optics are horrible.

But there's one who doesn't care: McAuliffe. What a golem.

He had more to do with getting these nimrods elected than Bloomberg, and knows that Lt. Gov. #MeToo Fairfax is probably doomed in 2022, so the time to strike is now.

So, McAuliffe at the head of a one-state 2A war he's gonna lose, and all that Planned Parenthood PAC money he blew on Fairfax?

They want to remold VA into California-style abortion laws, so McAuliffe can point to a win despite losing VA in 2022 to any GOP candidate not slobbering on himself (like Turd Blossom's protege Ed Gillespie).

The 2A war is a feint by McAuliffe to cover a quick package of abortion-for-all laws to be rammed through VA legislature in January.

178 posted on 12/25/2019 7:38:24 PM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The woman in that image has a look on her face as if to say, “Who the hell does this prick think he is?”


179 posted on 12/25/2019 7:50:23 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (I'm triggered by liberals and other assorted moonbats.)
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To: StAnDeliver
McAuliffe, who knows Biden is a sure loser, is positioning himself against Pence in 2024.

By then SCOTUS will be 7-2, and McAuliffe will run as Planned Parenthood's Palpatine, probably with a Pack-The-Courts-For-PP message -- just as I have said in previous posts about impeachment.

"This was meant by the Democrats to debauch impeachment so it cannot be used with any reasonable expectation of removal against a future Democrat president" -- posted on 11/18/2019, 7:14:11 AM by StAnDeliver

Biden will never take Mooch as his VP but you could damn sure see McAuliffe doing it -- merging whatever is left of the Clinton coalition (not much) to the body politic of Obama's wing, by simply hiring Bobo's wife, and then running a campaign versus Pence pitting women against men.

180 posted on 12/25/2019 7:50:24 PM PST by StAnDeliver (CNN's Dana B: "Show of hands: Coverage for undocumented immigrants?" ***all Democrat hands raised***)
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