Posted on 11/25/2020 7:14:11 PM PST by 11th_VA
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The head of the gun-rights group that organized a rally that drew 22,000 people to the state Capitol in January said a similar event won’t happen next year, claiming that a “double standard” allowed gun-control advocates to book the majority of time slots for Lobby Day.
Philip Van Cleave, the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, told members of the organization in a message this week that when he tried to apply for the 11 a.m. slot for next year’s Lobby Day, a tradition that gives citizens an opportunity to share issues they find important with their elected officials, he was informed by the state’s Department of General Services that the only times available were 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The 11 a.m. time slot had been taken by the Virginia Center for Public Safety, a group advocating for gun control that had previously tried to book the same time during this year’s Lobby Day but was beat out by VCDL. ...
“VCDL was told years ago that an application to use the Bell Tower for an event more than six months out would not even be accepted,” Van Cleave wrote. “We have followed that rule, booked six months out, and gotten the 11 am slot for 17 years.”...
While the VCDL will not have a traditional Lobby Day, the group has called on members from across Virginia to take part in four major caravans heading to Richmond.
“The four major caravans will all flood into the Richmond area over a 4 hour period in the afternoon and will pass through the center of Richmond, near wherever the Senate is meeting,” Van Cleave says in the message....
The group Gun Owners of America scooped up the 6 a.m. time slot...
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We have to Schedule an appointment for a day to exercise our 2nd amendment?
No... just plan a day and do it, tell them to take their “required permit” and shove it up their ass...
I am pretty sure they are not going to argue much at that point...
What the hell is wrong with this country? Where we have to ask permission to be citizens with our God given rights?
How much longer are armchair bad asses going to continue to “ask for permission” to be Patriots?
After the ball game is over right?
I’ve followed them a while. Richmond is too comfortable now dismissing them. They did a show of force last year and it bought them a reprieve. Now with a lock on state government the Dems are going to start purging them.
The VCDL has to think very carefully what their next steps will be because the state is getting ready to crush them in a couple years.
Or... Half the country could show up with a rifle slung over their shoulder asking for an out of state license to hunt black-faced Weasels...
Show up on 11am anyway.
Piss on their permits and rules. They are free to attempt to arrest 20,000 armed people.
Amen brother... It is up to you not them... Just amke your mind up that you might be eating cardboard Turkey burgers in lock up and just do it... I’m in if someone helps with my gas money to get there. Pretty much homeless right now anyhow, I’m good with jailhouse left overs and a cot.
Gun Control people always say the stupidest things, though. Maybe have a live stream debunking their idiocy.
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