Locking totalitarians up does not solve the problem. I hope the thugs will back down, but I worry that we are finishing up with that awkward stage . . . the one that more prudent tyrant wannabes would have spent more time in.
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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THE GOVERNOR IS GOING TO USE YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR IGNORING HIS ILLEGAL LEGISLATIVE LAW TO STOP YOU FROM OWNING FIREARMS TO PROTECT YOURSELF GUARANTEED BY THE U.S. CONSTITUTION.
THE GOVERNOR WANTED LEGISLATION TO MURDER BABIES AFTER BIRTH BY CALLING IT AFTERBIRTH ABORTION. WHEN DOES A BABY ACQUIRE CITIZENSHIP AND BECOME PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION? IS IT AT CONCEPTION, FETAL HEARTBEAT, OR IN THE WOMB WHEN VIABLE OR AT BIRTH, MAYBE BY AGE 3? WHERE DOES PROTECTION BY THE CONSTITUTION BEGIN?
“$250K seems like not much. Are they figuring on shooting most of those who refuse to comply??”
That’s pretty reasonable for a mass grave site.
Wow, it’s actually exactly what that is for. I hope this puts Va in play for 2020.
Freegards
Reeducation Camps
is my guess.
I hope the idiots who voted for this creep are happy. Someone needs to start a recall campaign on him AND his Ltd. Governor. Surely, some of the idiots who voted for them are having buyer’s remorse.
I suspect that this is the reason he wasn’t forced to resign after the blackface issue. He made a backroom deal to go nuclear on gun owners.
Locking totalitarians up does not solve the problem. I hope the thugs will back down, but I worry that we are finishing up with that awkward stage . . . the one that more prudent tyrant wannabes would have spent more time in.
There are two kinds of criminals who will never be released: those whose only crime is the ownership of a gun (ie Republicans), and tax cheats.
$250K is just for a “reserve (read: slush)” fund.
90+ counties/municipalities have become sanctuaries for gun owners with their sheriffs refusing to cooperate with the law Northam signed. (There are, I think, only 90 counties in Virginia). I wonder if the number of Virginia citizens in those counties who would vote to kick him out, is greater than the number of citizens who agree with him in the counties whose sheriffs have agreed to enforce his unconstitutional law? Perhaps a voter survey should be compiled. Somebody get a petition going!
250 K ???
You can’t create a one stall transgender toiler with $250K these days
“When the Secret Police kicking in a door at midnight are met at every other door by a shotgun blast you run out of them pretty quick ...” - John X
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Should we fail to preserve Freedom and Liberty here in America, it may never exist on this Earth again.
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surround the Gov mansion, lock them in and everyone else go about their business
Northam is trying to provoke an incident, but it is getting hard to see how to avoid one.
I do not think any of these laws have actually been enacted, rather they are in the process and the rats are talking a big game to get public reaction.
Nonetheless, no one can do anything until this talk becomes law and especially when they try to enforce the laws.
Such laws, when enacted, can be put on hold with a court order pending rulings by courts, right? Trump would be smart to let this just play out.
I do believe the Virginians will actually fight, as opposed to Kalifornians that have had the boiling frog treatment where they have had their 2nd A rights chiseled away for decades.
The Governor plans to jail more poor young black men for gun violations.
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