Pluralist: In a display of pro-Second Amendment solidarity, a group of West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a resolution inviting Virginia counties frustrated by gun control efforts to switch states.
Delegates in the lower house of the West Virginia Legislature put the proposal forth on Tuesday.
House Concurrent Resolution 8 would allow certain Virginia counties and independent cities to be admitted to West Virginia as constituent counties.
The group of 20 West Virginia Republicans, and one Independent, introducing the resolution said in the proposal that Virginia lawmakers have repudiated “the counsel of that tribune of liberty, Patrick Henry-who stated to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788 that ‘The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.’”
“[T]he government at Richmond now seeks to place intolerable restraints upon the rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution to the citizens of [Virginia,]” the proposal reads.
If it passes, the Virginia General Assembly would need to approve the resolution as well, and hold an election prior to August 1, 2020 allowing residents in Virginia counties to vote on whether they’d like to join West Virginia. read more
I’m starting to think we’re spinning out of control. Perhaps civil war is lurking in the political weeds, not far down the road.
Instead of symbolic proposals, Virginians should make an effort to remove that piece of garbage governor from office. The pig is conducting himself like a typical leftist tyrant and leveraging the power through the massive immigrant population. Now he is actually threatening lives with the call for a state of emergency and making false claims to subdue a pro gun protest. If he costs a single life then I hope he’s dragged out of office and clubbed to death on the streets.
A trend to secession is much preferable to total tyranny, no? This should start in Virginia. Secede to West Virginia leaving the blue cities isolated and surrounded. Starve em out and burn it down.
If every single republican had voted, there wouldn’t be a democrat governor. Republicans must vote no matter how futile it seems.
^^^ and Independents
…W. Va was founded because Democrats in VA got WAY out of control in ruling other people’s lives, so they split off into their own thing.
It would make sense for them to GROW the same way, since it’s again Democrats thinking other people’s God-given rights belong to them.
Most of our political problems stem from the indifference and lazyness of the voters.
Voting is a responsibility to be taken seriously not just some annoying chore.
Too many out there are voting for the wrong reasons and too many that have no right to are voting also.
W. Va. would be a great place to make a stand, too. Democrat brownshits won’t last long trying to come up that 45 degree slant to attack anyone. Most of the place is UP a hill or DOWN a hill, so much so that some of the towns look like they are leaning up the slope to fight gravity.
I have family in West Virginia and in the WestERN part of Virginia, if you follow me, the part underneath the state of West Virginia, and they’re pretty much the same anyway. The money is made in both places with coal, and Democrats HATE coal, so they hate working people in BOTH places who make their LIVING with coal, who ALSO fuel the REST of us.
And no, there’s NO coding jobs to be had in the area, either.
The geography is similar too. We had to bury one of my wife’s aunts in a tiny town out around Pennington Gap, and we had to have a 4WD vehicle to be able to go to the family cemetery that was on top of a hill shaved off at the top from mining years ago, and the funeral home had a 4WD hearse for that reason too. Gravel road at a sharp upwards angle, don’t slow down or you’re gonna slide backwards into the mourners behind you, 4WD or no 4WD. They have to keep the graves towards the middle so edge erosion doesn’t exhume anyone.
…and that’s what BURYING someone is like. The WORK is even HARDER.
…it’s a place Democrats wouldn’t survive for long because life required EFFORT and has CHALLENGES. Even just DRIVING up and down the hills, you need to be alert for the awesome sound of a fully-loaded coal truck Jake-braking down the hill towards you as you navigate the no-guardrail slopes thousands of feet up, because HE ain’t stopping or slowing…he CAN’T…so YOU either make like the Dukes of Hazard and go tearing down the mountain YOURSELF, or you become a sailcat and someone ELSE has to come claim your compressed corpse.
The third option is, you go over the side into the waiting gully that’s been there since the continents collided, and will be there long after your greatest of grandchildren are dust. In THAT case, no one’s ever gonna know WHAT happened to you, ’cause no one lives there and the coal truck driver can’t stop even IF he sees you, so you’ll just become another legend of the hills…
So yes, I would ENCOURAGE Virginia secession. Let the Democrats try to run the useless parts of your former state that they infected with their DC evil, WITHOUT your money, taking all the guns they DARE to from their remaining urban populations. They won’t last long.
…meanwhile, you’d be joining with peoples who are like long-lost brothers, physically, financially, politically, and tempermentally. I won’t say that all is well in Appalachia, but they DO believe you should take care of your OWN family, mind your OWN business, and have your OWN gun to defend yourself…
…so come on, leave the evil to rot in the Hell it created. We would make something together instead of destroying what’s there in the name of politics, and who knows, the waiting may not be long before the Second Amendment compels you to go rescue your erstwhile Eastern cousins from their rapacious proto-Soviet, Blackface masters. There are good people trapped by the bad, and we WILL have to settle accounts, sooner or later. Secession into W. Va. May just help set the stage.
God Bless,
SNS
voting doesn’t matter when the pedocrats cheat so hard…
you never find dead people voting for republicans. or illegals.
you never find the republicans calling voter id racist…
It will either be a civil war or we will submit to the left.
I can’t believe how many people feel there can be some sort of compromise by the left. Delusional.
cletus
JANUARY 16, 2020 AT 9:23 AM
“…I can’t believe how many people feel there can be some sort of compromise by the left…”
…there are people who think if you worship the devil that he’ll reward you in hell, too.
They’re BOTH wrong…
@Walpurgis January 16, 2020 at 8:17 am
> Republicans must vote no matter how futile it seems.
You have the Right™ to vote. By swearing loyalty to The Party. According to the rules of The Party. For who The Party lists on The Party’s ballot. To be counted by The Party. According to The Party’s rules. To swear allegiance to The Party, “if” Elected™. As they swore allegiance to The Party to be listed.
(No. Not futile. At all. Quite according to plan. Party plan. Get out there and Do Your Duty™, loyal citizens.)
Say, could we get Shitcago and/or maybe the entire Crook County to secede to the State of Lake Michigan?
(Can King Madigan and his daughter Lie Shit swim?)
Remove that and there’s a chance, a chance I say to return government to the folks…
Wouldn’t that be some shit. Think of all the ammo they’d save.
Anymouse
JANUARY 16, 2020 AT 10:12 AM
“Say, could we get Shitcago and/or maybe the entire Crook County to secede to the State of Lake Michigan?”
…get a bunch of guys, some shovels, and some long poles and push it out there…
…hey, if Guam can tip over for Democrats, tent WE don’t need no stinking geologicak reality, EITHER…
FINALLY people are listening to me, SECEDE!
People in upstate NY and eastern California, are you paying attention? You may need to do the same thing…
I don’t understand why citizens protected by the Constitution should be the ones to LEAVE. Put the shoe on the rightful foot and let the tyrants secede. Push them out – not the rightful owners, We The People. FK the Resister-sisters and bring on the Revolt. We are THE people.
Now that is an interesting idea. Forced-secession, of the northern counties of Va. Creating the new 51st state of North Virginia.
The citizens of the remaining counties of Va should also force the current governor and AG to depart with the northern counties to govern (rule) the new state of North Va. After all they are the ones that elected them.
Then elect their own new governor and AG of Va. Plus north and south states, such as North and South Carolina & North and South Dakota, are the more historical norm when states split.
It would also be an interesting contrast to what Abe Lincoln did when he created republican W. Va., separating it from democrat Va., to grab a few more electoral college votes for his up coming reelection. Except this time round it would be republican Va. forcing part of their state to break off into a new demonrat North Va.