“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here — this is the War Room!”
–Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964
“Citizens, you can’t carry legal firearms here — this is a Second Amendment rally!”
-Commonwealth of Virginia, 2020
PJMedia: The laugh-out-loud absurdity of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove is now the cry-out-loud reality of Democrat-held Virginia.
Just days before a planned gun-rights protest in the state capitol, Democratic Governor Ralph Northam plans to declare an emergency later today banning all weapons, including firearms, from the Capitol Square. According to NBC4 in Washington, officials speaking on condition of anonymity said the governor is concerned about “credible threats of potential violence and extremism.” However, the ominous-sounding report has the unnamed official admitting that “the state does not have intelligence that the groups are planning a specific act of violence.” Still, “Northam has grown increasingly concerned about numerous ominous-sounding postings on social media from forces outside Virginia.”
Cam Edwards at our sister site Bearing Arms writes that “buried at the bottom of a laundry list of rules for the House,” is the new Rule 85. It reads in part:
The House Committee on Rules will establish, by majority vote, a formal policy on the ability of members, staff, guests, and visitors to bring firearms into the those [sic] areas under the legal authority of the House of Delegates including, but not limited to, the Capitol, the House Chamber, and the Pocahontas Building. The Committee may amend the policy, which may or may not include a blanket prohibition, from time to time as appropriate. Copies of the approved policy and any changes or amendments thereof will be provided to every member, full and part-time employee, page, and intern of the Virginia House of Delegates and be posted for the members of the public.
But Edwards — who will speak at Monday’s rally — also notes that the “House of Delegates doesn’t control the entire state capitol complex, only the House itself, along with House office spaces,” and that the Senate has issued no such new rule. That might explain Northam’s plan to declare a state of emergency in order to assume wider powers and effectively shut down any carrying of firearms to a peaceful firearms protest.
The irony, it drips.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League is sponsoring the event, and they seem committed to following the letter of the law. Their instructions to protestors include the following:
Standing up for the Constitution is considered an act of violence.
The definition of perverse. One of many, sadly.
Start a recall petition on this maggot, collecting signatures will not be difficult.
It’s a setup. There will be a commie plant who will fire the first shot, then Kent State repeats…
He’s made claims that there are credible threats. That sounds like an excuse to incite violence against the protesters. He’s building in a “plausible reason” to call for force to be used.
He wants this to happen and is inciting it.
“I have checked with all law enforcement agencies that would have “credibility threat information” outside of Virginia and at this point there is nothing…no threats from any groups…now @GovernorVA need to release the threat information he says he has.”
“So – more evidence of @GovernorVA violation of Virginia law and creating conditions that endanger citizens…if there is real threat why would you disarm law abiding citizens so they can be attacked by armed criminals – this “emergency” is not legal and endangers the public.”
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Democrats are going to keep pushing until the day they get what they deserve.
Just part of VI’s Democrat agenda, “Treat everyone as if they’re already a criminal”.
This does nothing to dispel my theory that the east coast is where boogers and angst come from.
Only threat I’ve noticed is ole Blackface and the 2 Nazis behind him ever getting elected to anything again.
Thanks for the bag over his head, I am getting sick of seeing that immature little boy’s face. He is a greasy stain on Military service. I doubt there are any threats beyond hoaxes perpetrated by his own followers. He must be very afraid! Pah.
I wonder when laws that infringe the Constitution will be passed only by a public vote at election time, like many others. He is also infringing the State Constitution.
to be expected from the d-sucker minstrel masquerading as va governor
And don’t put it past them to send one or more of their lunatics among the 2A patriots to incite a violent response… which of course will be blamed on the good guys.
^^^ Right you are!
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Don’t have one?
Make one!!
Last I heard, nobody is going to go into the Kill Cage guv blackface has erected. One entrance/exit. A setup. Everyone will carry on the perimeter.
Time for Trump to call in the Federal Marshalls to escort citizens exercising their rights.
@RadioMattM January 16, 2020 at 4:20 pm
> Standing up for the Constitution is considered an act of violence.
Standing up for The United States Constitution requires locked knees and gripped ankles. Patriots (seem) to like it that way.
Hopefully, I will give you a full report Monday evening.
Phenry is right. I have heard mostly the same thing. Part of the net effect of this is many streets will now be shut down.