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I can only say that I don't go around commit crimes of any kind & they want to take away my rights for the criminals that go & murder people for no reason at all they also rape molest children lie cheat on every turn & the government wants to take away my right to have a gun what about all of those killers rapists crooks does anyone of us honestly think they will follow any law for that matter I live here at ground zero LOL in Virginia & if these bills are passed into law who wins then the criminals of course I don't have many guns buy BY GOD I am gonna what I have law or no law & I am not alone in this either they are many of us I just want to be left alone & live my life & I don't want no trouble with anyone but it's coming I can feel this in my bones people are sick of being told what the can or can't have & we are not gonna put up with this madness .I am all for law or order without it BUT when it comes to the law wanting to take my guns without no reason other than a rabbid Governor NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Murderer sentenced to 30 days in jail for killing man, shouting "that's what you get!" after shooting him Gun owners loose their constitutionally protected rights, while criminals often get coddled by the courts. Gun owners are demonized for exercising their lawful rights Gun owners are demonized for demanding criminals be punished Leftists are praised for restricting our rights Leftists are praised for light sentencing of criminal behavior We have lost grip of our culture We are slipping into clown world We need to start fighting for our future
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Showing up like you are ready and EAGER for armed civil war, CERTAINLY won't. Any more than the guy all tacticool-ed up, swaggering around a city park waiting for a confrontation with LEOs.. NOT talking about 'that' end of the spectrum but the YUGE, unaffiliated, moderate middle. MUCH larger than either end of the spectrum. They vote, BTW..They don't have an opinion, in a lot of cases, and are watching things like this rally, to help make up their mind in November 2020..
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Youtube may by iffy, but it might be more truthful than the "real" news media.
One video cites the VPAP (Virginia Public Access Project) as finding that Bloomberg used $6,272,540 to sway Virginia's election, and stated that Northam got over $1,400,000, and Jeremy McPike (Va Senate) got over $1,600,000. That's well over $6,000,000 with nearly half of that going towards the governor and a state senator. I doubt if they'll change their stance, they've been bought and paid for. They're nothing more than high-dollar whores who have become parts of the political machine that's on a mission to undermine the US Constitution. Then add the media...there was nothing about the rally in Richmond for the media to go off about, so they kept talking about Charlottesville, which had NOTHING to do with anything going on Monday. Last week Northam declared a state of emergency and was all like "we don't want another Charlottesville" and the media just took off with it. And where was all this violence that was predicted? NOWHERE. But the media kept talking about any little negative thing they could find. |
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Virginia is a powder keg & the fuse is already lit I don't know much about the politics but I know a tyrant when I see one He is all for killing babies even LATE TERM he has a BLACK HEART and should be put in a cage how are they getting by with all of these crimes against the 2nd even our Supreme Court Sided with Northam when he illegally called that State of Emergency I just don't know why no one is trying to put him in prison where he belongs
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The stage for takeover of the VA legislature was set in 2017 when Democrats flipped 15 house seats. After that election the Republican party cut their losses and abandoned Virginia.
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""Looking at the map, the blue district to the left is the one I live in. To the right of that blue blob is the City of Roanoke. Roanoke has a population of over 120,000. The rest of the district is mostly rural. Looking at the odd shape of my district, do you thing there’s something odd?"" copied from above
My state senate district is LONG and NARROW covering parts of 4 or more counties. Cant help wonder why but I guess I know why.. GOP screwed up royally by not having candidates in at least 25% of the VA districts. Cant win if dont have candidate no matter how good/bad the opposition is. |
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"imho --- I am thoroughly disgusted at the organizers of the pro-2nd Amendment rally in Richmond yesterday...because they staged the rally on MLK day."
I agree. I had the same thought myself. Another holiday may be less controversial and divisive. Gun owners should strive to gather public sympathy and support and not play into the hands of the left. It was a proper and necessary demonstration, but held on the wrong day. Last edited by shurshot; January 24, 2020 at 05:40 AM. |
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Why was MLK Day the wrong "wrong day?"
Wasn't he a big supporter of civil rights? |
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I believe it was entirely appropriate* Unfortunately, the left has been allowed to take control of MLK's message and twist it towards their narrative. If your average rank & file leftist bothered to actually invest the time/effort into reading his words, they would find that most of his beliefs align with conservative/libertarian ideology as opposed to their ingrained leftist/socialist dogma. He was an educated Christian conservative family man who believed in individual rights, but also expected personal accountability/responsibility. Both "sides" try to co-opt his name & message and twist it, but the left has by far been the most successful, again in large part because they've been allowed to get away with it. *but in all honestly I believe such rallies are largely a waste of time
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Gerrymandering is as old as the republic. BOTH sides gerryamnder, some more than others.
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We must keep up the pressure! Some bad bills passed the senate and are on the way to the house of delegates for consideration. Contact your delegates and remind them who they represent.
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I wonder how many photo's etc from the Virginia rally will make it into anti-gun literature etc. The fact there was no violence will be ignored. Every time the anti's need a graphic representation of a gun owner wonder who/what will they use?
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It's not about convincing Bloomberg-bought-and-paid-for politicians. It's about winning-over fence-sitting voters...
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I think VA has gone back and forth on some of their gun laws over the years. One gun a month is what they want to reinstate, meaning it was once the law but reversed. Plenty of gun laws have been reversed in my state. You can carry in way more places than in the past, and it even expanded further to include being able to store your firearm in locations that were once forbidden and no one ever thought those laws would change. And these are not laws that expired like the assault weapons ban.
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