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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It is truly sad that it might come to this. But it must. We Americans have something very rare in all of human history; freedom and Liberty. We owe all of humanity to fight for what we have and have gained so that we might preserve it for future generations of Americans. We may be asked to act. Let us hope that we are resolved to doing what is right and at the right time. My God Bless Us and Guide Us.
Trump can send in the National Guard to defend federal civil rights, like Eisenhower did at Little Rock Central High School in the ‘50s.
Yup, doesn’t seem right to me either. But this is the internet so it must be true.
Freegards
My thoughts exactly, it would not go far. I'm thinking its a budget "wedge" for future allocation.
Let the murderers and rapists go. Jail the gun owners.
Here is the actual proposed budget language:
Q. Included in the appropriation for this Item is $250,000 the first year from the general fund for the estimated net increase in the operating cost of adult correctional facilities resulting from the enactment of sentencing legislation as listed below. This amount shall be paid into the Corrections Special Reserve Fund, established pursuant to § 30-19.1:4, Code of Virginia.
1. Allow the removal of firearms from persons who pose substantial risk to themselves or others — $50,000
2. Prohibit the sale, possession, and transport of assault firearms, trigger activators, and silencers — $50,000
3. Increase the penalty for allowing a child to access unsecured firearms — $50,000
4. Prohibit possession of firearms for persons subject to final orders of protection — $50,000
5. Require background checks for all firearms sales — $50,000.
MOST SHOCKING I must say.
This is his payback to the Party for letting him keep his job.
What I meant was that Trump should be loudly proclaiming, from within the People’s State of Virginia:
“This is what Democrats do when they get power! America beware!”
He has Schiff eyes and turtle grimace.
Trump has got a shot at Virginia now.
Governor Coon Man is playing with fire....lots of it.
THE DEMS NOW WILL USE YOUR TAX MONEY TO PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR BREAKING A LAW THAT GUARANTEES YOU POSSESSION OF A GUN FOR SELFDEFENSE BY THE CONSTITUTION. THE COUNTY SHERIFFS OF VA. SHOULD BE GIVEN MEDALS FOR SUPPORTING THE LAW OF THE LAND. RECALL THE GOVERNOR.
Progs are working to equate owning an AR style rifle or any semi automatic will be placed on the same level as Child Porn, massive fines, long prison sentences, the works.
they awoke a sleeping giant
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