Posted on 01/10/2020 4:02:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A Virginia state senator called Second Amendment supporters "little kids" at a public meeting over the weekend as tensions between gun rights activists boil over in the state.
Sen. Dave Marsden, who supports Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, is an advocate of proposed gun control legislation and is part of the Democratic majority in the Virginia General Assembly. Instead of apologizing for the insensitive remarks, Marsden called Second Amendment supporters "mentally ill" in a letter he sent following a meeting with constituents.
Mornings on the Mall host Mary Walter read part of Marsden's letter on-air and asked him to comment.
"Too many of your members and other 2A supporters appear to have mental health issues," Walter quoted.
"A significant number of these things were indicative of very unstable people, and this is worrisome," replied Marsden. "The responses I was getting were from people who showed signs of having mental health difficulties."
After Democrats swept into power in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly last November, gun rights supporters passed Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in 75 of 96 Virginia counties to protect their rights to own and bear firearms in their localities. Gov. Ralph Northam has threatened to deploy the National Guard if local police refuse to abide by new laws passed in this year's General Assembly session.
"The Second Amendment community is very, very concerned about us approaching the problem as a mental health problem, and this is just indicative of exactly what they're talking about. There are a lot of people who have mental health issues that are engaged on the current issues, and that's a concern to all of us," stated Marsden.
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Closer to home, He is ignorant of the Muster Ground in Abington Virginia where the militias mustered on numerous occasions to go into battle. The site is at the beginning of the Overland Victory Trail to Kings Mountain NC where in 1780 the militias from Virginia joined the larger force at Sycamore Shoals, Fort Watauga at present day Elizabethton Tennessee.
They need to muster now to march to Richmond to depose the anti American legislature and Governor
I’m a diagnosed Tyranophobe. I fear and hate government thugs.
Liberty
Of course he does.
That is the whole theory behind the so called ‘red flag laws’. If you own guns you must be insane. therefore the state has the right to take those guns.
I wonder if Sen. Dave Marsden gets executive protection.
Those Virginians do have mental issues.
They can read.
They have issues with those who can’t.
the fact that the state government(s) is/are passing laws to restrict use and ownership and eventually take guns from law abiding citizens means the citizens are likely to need them more than ever
To me this all could be solved very easily by visits to a number Democrats late one night...News at 6am..
You beat me to it. Red flag laws won’t be used as they are touted. This guy just voiced what the whole dim party thinks, that is anyone who supports 2A has mental issues. Over the past 6 months I have seen numerous posts by FReepers stating that it has come to the point where we cannot coexist with the left. I am really beginning to believe that.
Virginia may never recover from this Dem Mess
It might not, 2020 will be a good real world indicator. If the potential to become as liberal as California of 2050 within one political cycle doesn’t put Virginia back into play for the republicans, it isn’t coming back. I hope all this is gross overreach by the libs and they get crushed. But I have my doubts.
Freegards
And he wants to take guns from mentally-ill people
Pure projection. It’s the idiot gun-grabbers who have the serious mental disease known as leftism.
Communists simply declare that you are insane and must be committed to re-training camps if you disagree with them.
Second Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The correct interpretation of "shall not be infringed" means that gun laws on the books are unconstitutional.
Are all Democrats communists or just some?
Standard Democrat tactic. Anyone who disagrees with you has “mental issues”.
Pillow biter.
Dave Marsden is too retarded to brush his teeth.
Draft-dodging Dave Marsden.
Article excerpt:In 1973, APA Removed Homosexuality From List of Mental Disorders...
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Dec 15, 2017 - Forty-four years ago today, the American Psychiatric Association made history by issuing a resolution stating that homosexuality was not a mental illness or sickness. ...
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If because they were pressured by the PC forces of that time and the ruling narrowly passed, and homosexuality is actually still a mental disorder, then Mayor Pete is disturbed, not gun owners.
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