Virginia is for Gun Lovers
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Ken Stolle should run for Governor.
I read the “vageneralassembly” keyword incorrectly.
Great news. Hope is alive and well in Virginia tonight.
Congrats!
What bothers me most about the gun-grabbers is that they are trying to limit my rights to buy and sell private merchandise. They need to divorce themselves from the fact that I may or may not be selling a gun at a gun show. What is a gun, after all? It is a piece of metal with lots of little metal bits inside of it that performs a mechanical operation when I squeeze one part of it. What business is it of anyone else’s what I do with the pieces of metal I buy from other people?
The fact that I buy my metal from other individuals at a gun show should have nothing to do with the law either. What is a gun show? It is a congregation of buyers and sellers who all decided it would be easier for everyone involved if they just gathered in one place rather than at a bunch of stores spread out accross an entire state. Why should I not be able to buy something from an individual at a gun show? Would it be different if I bought it from him at his house? What if we met on a street corner? I think the gun-grabbers should be ENCOURAGING the buying and selling at gun shows because all the gun shows I have ever been to have been far safer for everyone involved than, say, meeting a guy in a back alley with a lot of cash on my person. How many muggings take place at gun shows? How many robberies have there been? The shows that I go to tend to have not only their own security, but also a police presence at the front door.
So basically what this legislation has failed to do is this: it has failed to limit the rights of people to buy and sell what they wish; it has failed to stop people from freely and peacefully assembling together; and it has failed to make private gun transactions more dangerous by failing to force them into dark alleys and peoples’ basements.
Thank god it failed.