Second Amendment: WV Invites Virginia #2A Counties To Switch States

Hotair ^ | 01/16/2020 | Jazz Shaw

[SeekAndFind]

I’m not sure if this is more hilarious or serious. Probably both. But with all the news coming out of Virginia these days regarding pushback against new gun control laws, their neighbors in West Virginia have put forth an offer. Tired of the government in Richmond taxing the heck out of you and trying to infringe upon your Second Amendment rights? Perhaps you should consider switching over and becoming part of our state. Come on in… the water’s fine!

And it’s more than just a casual discussion. The state government in Charleston has already drawn up a bill preparing to accept the new territories if anyone wants to join. (Redstate)

Whereas, Article VI, Section 11 of The Constitution of the State of West Virginia explicitly permits additional territory to be admitted into, and become part of this state, with the consent of the Legislature and of a majority of the qualified voters of the state; and

Whereas, In a spirit of conciliation, the Legislature of West Virginia hereby extends an invitation to our fellow Virginians who wish to do so, to join us in our noble experiment of 156 years of separation from the government at Richmond; and, we extend an invitation to any constituent county or city of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be admitted to the body politic of the State of West Virginia, under the conditions set forth in our state Constitution, specifically, with the consent of a majority of the voters of such county or city voting upon such proposition; and we hereby covenant that their many grievances shall be addressed, and, we further covenant with them that their firearms rights shall be protected to the fullest extent possible under our Federal and State Constitution.

As Breitbart points out, this process would have to take place in a number of steps. First, the West Virginia legislature would need to approve the offer. Then, any of the Second Amendment sanctuary counties and cities that are interested would have to call special elections and have a majority of their voters indicate a willingness to change states.

After such special elections were held, the petition(s) would shift back to West Virginia, where a majority of voters would have to approve the application. After that, the shift would become official at some point and we’d have to go back and redraw all the maps.

So is this legal? According to Article VI, Section 11 of the Constitution of West Virginia it is. But I immediately began to wonder what would happen if a city in Virginia voted to join West Virginia but the surrounding county did not. Or what if one of the border counties didn’t join, but the next county to the east wanted to? Can we have non-contiguous counties as part of a state? I’m not sure what the precedent for that would be, but both Wisconsin and Washington state do have sections that are not accessible by land without going through a chunk of Canada. It would be an interesting debate to be sure.

More to the point, the political ramifications would be rather intense. Virginia would immediately turn blue, but they’d lose some congressional seats while West Virginia would become an even darker shade of red and gain some seats.

All of this may have Governor Northam in even more of a panic than he is already. He’s just announced a “state of emergency” in Virginia and plans to issue an order forbidding the carrying of any firearms in Capitol Square during the upcoming Second Amendment rights rally. The city will essentially be on lockdown, with everyone attending the rally needing to go through metal detectors.

Virginia is pretty much in the midst of their own civil war at this point, hopefully without any of the attendant shooting. Who knows? Perhaps it would be for the best if they just let some of the southern counties split off and join West Virginia. They did it back in the 1800s and it’s seemed to work out okay.

[mewzilla]

Q for WV: Wanna annex Upstate NY? Make our day 😄

[Bon mots]

Secede and join WV!!!

[SanchoP]

This is the only peaceful solution I see.

[TheConservativeBanker]

Northam has done everything except issue a formal declaration of was against over 90% of the counties in the Commonwealth. He and his merry band of deranged, doped up, infantile aspiring tyrants have clearly indicated that they despise law abiding, patriotic Virginians. His fake emergency declaration is transparently designed to foment violence, not to prevent it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

While joining West Virginia would sound good, it would be better if they declared themselves to be a NEW STATE as that should give us two new REPUBLICAN Senators.

[Alas Babylon!]

I don’t believe it is Wisconsin that has a piece of land surrounded by Canada, but rather Minnesota. Lake of the Woods specifically.

[House Atreides]

VEXIT!!

[jjotto]

Right. The ‘Northwest Angle’ borders Canada by land but only by Lake of the Woods from the rest of the state of Minnesota.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Wouldn’t it be more logical for the areas around DC to secede from Virginia and join DC? It’s the effects of the politically and economically swollen government spilling out of DC into Virginia which have created this problem.

[HotHunt]

Boy, wouldn't that be the cat's meow if all or most of those 2nd Amendment sanctuary counties in Virginia said bye-bye, we're going to saddle up with our like-minded friends in West Virginia?

It would leave Northam and his fellow wannabe tyrants with little population to control and tax. It would leave them holding the bag. An empty bag.

Or they could form their own state and leave "Virginia the Totalitarian State". Instead of "Virginians Are Lovers" their name could be "Mid-Virginians For Freedom".

I can't imagine law-abiding Virginians will tolerate this tyrannical gun-grab by the democRATS. Something will have to give.

[dhs12345]

The problem with Leftists is that they want control. They don’t care if you disagree with them. They want control over territory and will never give up land.

[NFHale]

“...This is the only peaceful solution I see...”

It may seem that way at the moment, but it won’t be peaceful; do you really think a jackoff like Northam and his commies would just let all of that REVENUE walk across the border without a fight?

[Wildbill22]

I would like to do the same thing for Michigan north of the tree line.

Call it North Texas.

[txrefugee]

Is this a free country if you can’t live where you want to live?

[crz]

That would require the acceptance of the VA legislature AND the National Legislature.

This would NOT be forming a NEW state. It would be counties from one state crossing over the join another existing state and is constitutional IMO.

[NFHale]

Is it? Apparently not. You tell me.

Is this a Free Country with a guaranteed RIGHT to keep and bear arms? Or is right that subject to the whim of some dickhead governor and his dickhed party when they decide to abrogate a Federal and State level right?

Those counties are part of the state of Virginia, in his eyes. You think he won’t try to FORCE all that tax revenue to stay in “HIS” state?

Not saying folks shouldn’t attempt it; I’m saying just don’t expect it to be a peaceful transition. This assclown governor will definitely try to flex his beer balls.

[napscoordinator]

Yes. Let’s make West Virginia blue. No thanks. Keep in mind even though they are fighting this doesn’t excuse them from making the entire state blue.

[Publius]

West Virginia should also annex the counties of western Maryland abused by the legislature in Annapolis.

[mewzilla]

Hmmmm, if the red bits of PA went with VA it would make it easier to include Upstate NY’s red counties....

WV, with the best bits of VA, PA, NY, and MD...whoa.