Nat Review |CAM EDWARDS: His attempt to enforce unpopular and unconstitutional gun-control laws is doomed to failure.
Ralph Northam is about to make the biggest tactical mistake in Virginia since Cornwallis decided to park his army at Yorktown. With his attempt to force local commonwealth’s attorneys and sheriffs in Second Amendment sanctuaries to enforce his unconstitutional gun laws, Governor Northam is setting himself up for a catastrophic failure. In fact, there’s no way for Northam to win the fight he seems intent on picking with Virginia gun owners and Second Amendment sanctuaries.
The governor isn’t being helped by fellow Democrats such as U.S. congressman Donald McEachin, who said the governor should call out the National Guard to enforce the law, or Attorney General Mark Herring, who blithely says he expects that the laws will be followed once they’re on the books.
There are also Democrats, such as Delegate David Toscano, who have been comparing the Second Amendment–sanctuary movement to the Massive Resistance movement that unfolded in Virginia in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Massive Resistance came about after Democratic governor Thomas B. Stanley organized a state-level opposition movement to the integration of public schools in Virginia in the late 1950s. To compare it to today’s Second Amendment–sanctuary movement is to compare apples and oranges on a couple of different levels.
First of all, the Second Amendment–sanctuary movement is morally just, unlike the Massive Resistance movement of the late ’50s and early ’60s. The Second Amendment–sanctuary movement isn’t about curtailing rights, but rather about protecting their free exercise. read more
This ship of fools are about to visit Davy Jones’ locker.
Should Virginia pass and try to implement the law, SCOTUS will strike it down, and they know this.
What’s the real agenda? I realize Democrats are never deterred by engaging in folly, but I think there’s another angle here, but I can’t put my finger on it.
Northam & co are as insane as the Iranians.
But that’s no reason to stop poking your finger in their chest and barking in their faces.
You underestimate how many yokos live here in nova this state state is lost. Just because the rest of the state is great nova has made the swamp twice the size
@Mortgages for the Masses ~ practically everything the D’rat Marxists in VA are proposing, w/ the exception of door-to-door searches (highly unlikely in any practical scenario) have already been implemented in Kalipornia, Masshole-tucetts & Merryland … SCOTUS has turned down every suit against Merryland
There’s a bullseye on you, Mr. Blackface.
The governor and his political pals are just preparing the window dressing. The real issue is individual Constitutional rights and they want to eliminate them all. The only reason they’re in office is because of the overflow of the DC people who are sucking on the government teat.
Just like the pols in NY, San Fran, Chicago, etc. they have a base of ultra-idiotic progressives to pander to and keep on the leash. If VA gets a Conservative Gov. and a majority Conservative state congress they’d be well served to make their statewide elections done via an electoral college. If that’s legal.
Well, blunt hammers have not worked so time for the velvet fists…Expect to see a 5 year program including passage of Laws denying credit to gun owners, insurance requirements and increased fees for gun owners, job applicants required to divulge gun ownership, child protective services with the power to have your family disappear, panels involved in promotions, state edicts prohibiting working for or contracting with the government etc etc…
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