Yes, Virginia…They Are Selling Your Gun Rights

There are a few things you just want to believe in. When the truth comes out, though, it can be heartbreaking.

That was the case when Virginia Democratic Governor Ralph Northam chose to sell out Virginians’ safety for political control to pass gun control laws that will not stop criminals. Northam rejected more than $660,000 in federal grants to reduce crime. At the same time, he’s welcoming the flood of millions of dollars into the Commonwealth to flip control of the state’s legislature to Democrat blue and finally pass his laundry list of gun control bills that the state legislature rejected twice in the past few months.

Northam turned down two Department of Justice grants through the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative, because the state refused to comply with DOJ federal immigration policies. Those grants were instead transferred to the non-profit Virginia Association of the Chiefs of Police.

House of Delegates Republican Majority Leader Todd Gilbert was vocally critical of the politics-over-safety move.

“Attorney General [Mark] Herring and Governor Northam have said the loss of lives in Virginia to guns is an emergency, yet they’re willing to walk away from grant funding for a program that has been proven to work,” Gilbert said, according to the Washington Free Beacon. “They’re willing to put politics above saving lives. These programs work. They save lives, particularly those of young, African American men.”

Virginia, at the same time, is seeing buckets of gun control cash being poured into statewide election campaigns in an effort to give Northam swayed legislature he wants to pass draconian and ineffective gun control measures. Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control group bankrolled by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, is exporting his New York City gun control ideas to the tune of $2.5 million. Giffords, the gun control group founded by former U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, pledged another $300,000.

The money wave is an effort to flip the majorities in the Old Dominion’s Senate and House of Delegates, where Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in both chambers. Those majorities are the only bulwark against Northam’s far-left gun control measures. Northam called a special legislative session following tragic murders in Virginia Beach. He demanded a ban on modern sporting rifles such as the AR-15, standard-capacity magazines, suppressors, and limiting handgun purchases to once a month.

Northam got his special session, which was abruptly concluded in just hours. His gun control wish list was bust, mostly because Virginia’s legislators knew it was all a sham – just a way for Northam to step out from his blackface-scandal. Northam went on to even admit his control push wouldn’t have saved lives.

Northam is already paying back the political favors to the gun control groups investing in Virginia’s elections. He’s launched an ad just two weeks before state elections promising more gun control. While he claims his ideas are commonsense, they are indeed far from it. They’re far-left ideas that match the wish lists of other anti-gun states like California, Illinois, and Massachusetts.

These aren’t notions that will make Virginia safer. Gun ownership has risen and the FBI’s crime statistics continue to show crime is dropping. Northam, along with his gun control cronies, prey on unfounded fears that law-abiding gun owners are the problem. It’s now clearer than ever. The problem, however, isn’t guns. It’s not those who own guns. It’s politicians who would jeopardize the safety of their fellow citizens to have political stump speech and bogeyman instead of actually tackling the issues.

The firearms industry isn’t waiting. While Northam plays political football, we are working toward Real Solutions^SM. We are partnering with law enforcement to provide more than 38 million free firearms safety kits with gun locks through Project Childsafe. Those locks are given to law enforcement, including Virginia communities, to keep firearms out of the hands of those who shouldn’t possess them. We’re working with gun retailers to improve store security and matching rewards for gun thefts and robberies. We’ve changed the laws in 16 states to improve background checks through FixNICS and partnered with the largest suicide prevention agency in America to intervene before a moment of crisis.

Governor Northam wants the issue and not the answer. He rejected the solution over politics and his policies put Virginians at risk. That’s unconscionable. That’s also something Virginia voters should remember as they head to the polls November 5^th.

Virginians need answers to fight crime. The answer they found, though, is their elected representatives were willing to sell them out for gun control campaign cash.

Wish this weren’t true, but even with VCDL and GOA stomping around (VCDL always scares up reps for militia, police, and public safety committee), it is apparent that just like merryland (annapolis, baltimore), Virginia has to contend with dip5h1t politicians in richmond and arling-fax.....

Stoopid liberals!

KYPD

Virginian voters...you all better turn out in massive numbers and vote to keep your Virginia legislature in the control of the GOP...period!!! You have a scum & vermin Low life Democrat, in your Virginia, Governor office. You better wise up & wake up...or Virginia will truly become another failed state just like California and New York. Vote GOP...period!!!

And... if POTUS, Trump rallies in Virginia...you better turn out 1,000,000”PLUS” Trump supporters across the entire state. Your State and your great Country is at stake. Defeat & destroy “scum & vermin”, Democrats and keep control of the VA legislature..period. Get out and vote....do it!!!

This is the same POS that supported murder of children, as post birth abortion. “Make it comfortable while they decide...”. How is this.....person still breathing, let alone holding office? This is what you elect, Virginia? What the Hell? You already know he’ll kill you and not give a damn, and you want him to take away your guns? Really? I must rethink my position on Virginia.

One of life’s most difficult puzzles:

Within an hour or so drive of Richmond are the homes of Jefferson, Madison, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, George Washington and many others.

So the puzzle is: How can Virginia not realize what is happening to them? How can they allow it?

With Virginia’s destruction will come the destruction of the rest of the United States.

The issue is the large cities... Fairfax, etc., in Northern Va. Richmond, Eastern Shore...

The rest of us are *mostly* sane.

Hoss

Because high functioning sociopaths from the whole country flock to the federal bureaucracies, alphabet agencies, lobbying firms and federal contractors concentrated in DC. These people have always gravitated to concentrations of power, and DC draws them like a magnet. This phenomena has increased with the growth of the federal government in the last 20-30 years. But they all live in Northern Virginia and Eastern Maryland because DC is so expensive and huge parts of it are like a 3rd world country.

Freegards

Actually being very close to VA both geographically and with a personal stake in the state’s laws, I am aware of the invasion by libs.

Even though they are libs brainwashed by the poor excuse for schools in the states from which they come/came, one would think that a certain percent of them would be awed by the proximity of so many monuments in memory of our founders that they would become appreciative of our Constitution and its resulting American way of life.

How could one stand in any part of Monticello and not be in awe of the man who built it and lived in it?

And how could Virginians allow them to get the upper hand?

Every living Virginian should visit these sites and pledge to vote for what they stand for in every election.

I live in north western VA on the border of WVA, a big republican area. Not feeling too hopeful about the election next month at all. I’d like to know the % of voters in NOVA that are native Virginians and who are transplants that now vote in NOVA. We now live in age where having the capital next to your state is a detriment I guess. I would support some sort of system of rotating the capital to every state. Let these bureaucrats be gypsies and vote by mail back in their home state.

Freegards

AS you know, the president is trying to do that.

He has already moved a large part of the agriculture dept. to OK.

He is working on moving many others.

But that is a mixed blessing. He runs the risk of poising those areas just as yours is poisoned.

I would personally vote for the restriction of government employees to one half vote and one half count in the census.

Don’t tell me how likely that is to happen.

But on the cheery side, when they die the dims will give them full voting rights and multiple opportunities.

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