Posted on 01/14/2020 6:36:43 AM PST by marktwain
Virginia Democrats changed the rules of the General Assembly to ban guns and knives in the state capitol. Nearly all knives are banned as well as any item capable of launching a projectile. There is an exception for folding knives with a blade of less than 3 inches in length.
All people entering the capitol, with the exceptions of full-time, on duty, paid law enforcement officers and military personnel, who are conducting official business at the state capitol, are subject to the policy.
To enforce the policy, Capitol police are authorized to search and seize all people entering the building, with the exception of current members of the General Assembly. In practice, it is expected all people entering the building will have to go through metal detectors, with the exception of current legislators.
The rule change was passed on strict party lines. Democrats voted for the ban, Republicans voted against it.
The Democrats claim the ban is required for “public safety”, and that the Capitol Police recommended the ban. From vpm .org:
“This is a recommendation from our Capitol Police who we trust every day, and who have kept us safe, and I trust their judgment,” House Majority Leader Charniele Herring told the Joint Rules Committee meeting.
Capitol Police Chief Col. Anthony Pike said the Capitol Police had not recommended the ban. From wfmz.com:
But Capitol Police Col. Anthony Pike said after the vote that he made no recommendations on whether guns should be banned, only on how to implement the ban Democrats wanted. The new policy will require that everyone entering the Capitol, except for lawmakers, must go through a metal detector.
The Democrats were able to cite one incident, in 2006 when a Republican delegate accidentally discharged a handgun into a bullet-proof vest hanging on a door. No one
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I think we’ve elected politicians who must have been hatched from chickens rather than humans with a backbone. They keep knuckling under to the gangsters.
Democrats are paranoid. The ban isn’t for the public; its for THEIR safety.
Fascists being fascist.
It’s what they are.
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“with the exception of current legislators.”
Why?
Pitchforks and baseball bats are still okay, right?....................
Truth is... Democrats LOVE tyranny! So of course they hate and FEAR all Liberty loving citizens!!!
ALL people?
Tar and feathers are not on the list.... good.
And short pieces of rope?
It is SOOO PREDICTABLE.
Why?
Royal decrees don't apply to the Nobility, only the peasants.
“...require that everyone entering the Capitol, except for lawmakers, must go through a metal detector”.
There is the problem right there. There is the ruling class and the rest are the serfs.
Bingo. It's why the Left is trying to grab guns.
The question people should be asking: for what reason are they paranoid?
I’m sure your criminal types will Obey
It is for CONTROL.
Very soon you will see a big push against deer hunting with hounds.
Eventually it will be rabbit hounds.
Kennels will be required to install heat for winter and air condition g for summer.
There has already been news that this is coming.
Elizabeth Warren has already said she would ban construction of single homes, coal burning power plants and I would bet eventually auto ownership of other than “essential professions”.
Ridiculous?
We would have said the same only a very few years ago about the trans-gender movement, the requirement that weirdos be addressed by their perceived gender.....and the list is long.
Unless this country wakes up, and I do not mean “wokes up”, we are in for a period more destructive of civilization than was the dark ages.
We no longer have enough people in government who can sort out new ideas, accepting the reasonable and rejecting the bad and that is as destructive as that period in history when all new ideas were condemned.
The assembly did not ban guns. The capital police still carry them and lawmakers are not subject to the screening.
What they did ban was CITIZENS with guns. IOW, voters. Yep, that is right. Lawmakers fearing the citizenry.
Following that reasoning, why not ban guns in the whole state of Virginia, hmm Dems?
They’re preparing.
Slowly, methodically, with small steps. They are aligned, firm and relentless. Never giving up. Just like Satan’s demons.
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