Posted on 01/18/2020 4:42:08 AM PST by KC_Lion
On January 17, 2020, President Donald Trump pointed to the gun control situation in Virginia, noting that it proves once more the Democrats “will take your guns” if voted into office.
He made this point amid the all-out war on guns by Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and the newly elected Democrat majority in the state legislature.
Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2020
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Yet the Democrats are still pushing an “assault weapons” ban that would only allow AR-15 owners to keep their rifles if they agree to obtain a license from the state police. Democrats are being open about their intention to use the licensing process to form a database listing information of AR-15 owners.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Trump needs to sound the alarm several times about the set up being constructed in Richmond. There are going to be Antifa agitators who will impersonate Trump supporters, ferment violence, and then the media will blame Trump and his supporters probably more Trump talks about this, the more he takes arrows out of their quiver.
There you are again, with your big head up your bigger ass.
The M3 in there is worth more than the M16 of which it appears to be a part.
BTW, watch for the Dems to do what they just did in NY. Poor criminals can’t afford bail so just set them free. And give illegals driver’s licenses and change the application to automatically register them to vote.
Presiden Trump lost by 212,030 votes, not 250,000. BUT Gary Johnson got 118,274 votes and Evan McMuffin got 54,054 votes. That’s 172328. Presumably, a large portion of those votes would go to President Trump.
The libertarians are actively organizing against the gun-grabbing going on right now. McMuffin voters were largely those who were holier than thou.
212030-172328 = 39702.
NOVA is a huge problem, but there are votes to squeeze out of rural Virginia if people drag everyone to the polls. If we can get rural Virginia to vote as Republican (with high turnout) as the Bronx votes for the Democrats, Virginia could swing back.
The last Mason-Dixon Poll of Virginia (and MD polls are much better than the trash College polls in the State) shows Trump leading everyone but Biden. That hasn’t happened in a long time in Virginia.
The Rats may have backed themselves into a corner on Redistricting.
This is what passed the first Assembly session (with Democrat support) and what has been refiled in this session. If it passes again, the voters will implement this in time for the 2021 redistricting process.
“Section 6-A. Virginia Redistricting Commission.
(a) In the year 2020 and every ten years thereafter, the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) shall be convened for the purpose of establishing districts for the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly pursuant to Article II, Section 6 of this Constitution.
(b) The Commission shall consist of sixteen commissioners who shall be selected in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.
(1) Eight commissioners shall be legislative members, four of whom shall be members of the Senate of Virginia and four of whom shall be members of the House of Delegates. These commissioners shall be appointed no later than December 1 of the year ending in zero and shall continue to serve until their successors are appointed.
(A) Two commissioners shall represent the political party having the highest number of members in the Senate of Virginia and shall be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia.
(B) Two commissioners shall represent the political party having the next highest number of members in the Senate of Virginia and shall be appointed by the leader of that political party.
(C) Two commissioners shall represent the political party having the highest number of members in the House of Delegates and shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates.
(D) Two commissioners shall represent the political party having the next highest number of members in the House of Delegates and shall be appointed by the leader of that political party.
(2) Eight commissioners shall be citizen members who shall be selected in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and in the manner determined by the General Assembly by general law.
(A) There shall be a Redistricting Commission Selection Committee (the Committee) consisting of five retired judges of the circuit courts of Virginia. By November 15 of the year ending in zero, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia shall certify to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the leader in the House of Delegates of the political party having the next highest number of members in the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia, and the leader in the Senate of Virginia of the political party having the next highest number of members in the Senate a list of retired judges of the circuit courts of Virginia who are willing to serve on the Committee, and these members shall each select a judge from the list. The four judges selected to serve on the Committee shall select, by a majority vote, a judge from the list prescribed herein to serve as the fifth member of the Committee and to serve as the chairman of the Committee.
(B) By January 1 of the year ending in one, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the leader in the House of Delegates of the political party having the next highest number of members in the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia, and the leader in the Senate of the political party having the next highest number of members in the Senate shall each submit to the Committee a list of at least sixteen citizen candidates for service on the Commission. Such citizen candidates shall meet the criteria established by the General Assembly by general law.
The Committee shall select, by a majority vote, two citizen members from each list submitted. No member or employee of the Congress of the United States or of the General Assembly shall be eligible to serve as a citizen member.
(c) By February 1 of the year ending in one, the Commission shall hold a public meeting at which it shall select a chairman from its membership. The chairman shall be a citizen member and shall be responsible for coordinating the work of the Commission.
(d) The Commission shall submit to the General Assembly plans for districts for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly no later than 45 days following the receipt of census data and shall submit to the General Assembly plans for districts for the United States House of Representatives no later than 60 days following the receipt of census data or by the first day of July of that year, whichever occurs later.
(1) To be submitted as a proposed plan for districts for members of the United States House of Representatives, a plan shall receive affirmative votes of at least six of the eight legislative members and six of the eight citizen members.
(2) To be submitted as a proposed plan for districts for members of the Senate, a plan shall receive affirmative votes of at least six of the eight legislative members, including at least three of the four legislative members who are members of the Senate, and at least six of the eight citizen members.
(3) To be submitted as a proposed plan for districts for members of the House of Delegates, a plan shall receive affirmative votes of at least six of the eight legislative members, including at least three of the four legislative members who are members of the House of Delegates, and at least six of the eight citizen members.
(e) Plans for districts for the Senate and the House of Delegates shall be embodied in and voted on as a single bill. The vote on any bill embodying a plan for districts shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 11 of this Constitution, except that no amendments shall be permitted. Such bills shall not be subject to the provisions contained in Article V, Section 6 of this Constitution.
(f) Within fifteen days of receipt of a plan for districts, the General Assembly shall take a vote on the bill embodying that plan in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e). If the General Assembly fails to adopt such bill by this deadline, the Commission shall submit a new plan for districts to the General Assembly within fourteen days of the General Assembly’s failure to adopt the bill. The General Assembly shall take a vote on the bill embodying such plan within seven days of receipt of the plan. If the General Assembly fails to adopt such bill by this deadline, the districts shall be established by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
(g) If the Commission fails to submit a plan for districts by the deadline set forth in subsection (d), the Commission shall have fourteen days following its initial failure to submit a plan to the General Assembly. If the Commission fails to submit a plan for districts to the General Assembly by this deadline, the districts shall be established by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
If the Commission submits a plan for districts within fourteen days following its initial failure to submit a plan, the General Assembly shall take a vote on the bill embodying such plan within seven days of its receipt. If the General Assembly fails to adopt such bill by this deadline, the districts shall be established by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
(h) All meetings of the Commission shall be open to the public. Prior to proposing any redistricting plans and prior to voting on redistricting plans, the Commission shall hold at least three public hearings in different parts of the Commonwealth to receive and consider comments from the public.
(i) All records and documents of the Commission, or any individual or group performing delegated functions of or advising the Commission, related to the Commission’s work, including internal communications and communications from outside parties, shall be considered public information.”
Yes, ditto what you said.
It will soon be time to use some of that ammo you have been purchasing.
Glad he finally weighed in on the VA mess.
You think that statement was bullying? That was as mild as it gets. This is the first I've ever heard him even mention this? Sorry, but that response was lame as hell. Trump simply doesn't care about 2A.
Yes he does. The time is just perfect to be used by the anti-American Rats to smear him and influence the impeachment trial.
Enforce the Second Amendment to the Constitution
He is not a dictator
Correct. He's the President of the United States
and has no control over a state legislature
In this case, yes he does. The Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment makes the Bill of Rights applicable to the States. That means that if state legislatures violate 2A he has a duty to stop them.
NeverTrumpers hardest hit!
Time to take the guns away from the government. They seem to be pointed them in the wrong direction.
It’s crappy rhetoric on many levels because it reduces us to being bad children, “You’ve been bad children and now we are going to take your guns away.” Second it skips over the fact that the Left/Establishment is and has turned us into second class citizens and that is the Boomer part, they cannot believe that. Thirdly the Deep State agencies are contributing to the political theatre which is to further reduce our status as citizens even humans, pure communism, again the Boomer cannot believe this is happening.
“Crappy rhetoric from Trump, but honestly it is typical Boomer post WWII can’t fight city hall but you can whine about it.”
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Mmmmm.
Perhaps you may need a refresher course in history, junta.
I remember reading articles and seeing old, and grainy clips of Pastors and others telling folks not to allow Abortion to get ahold in this country. They warned what it would lead to and so, oh, so many folks laughed at them using language to ridicule them.
Well, turns out the folks who warned Americans were correct and we now have Abortion up until the moment of actual birth in some states and other states are okay with enfants who survive the attack to be neglected unto death.
I do find it interesting you used ‘Big Momma Liberal,’ in your admonishment. As history shows it *was* those women who didn’t want to become Mommas to push it as well as men who wanted no responsibilities for what they sired.
It’s not wise to bet what a government cannot do.
The law abiding citizens are usually those who pay the price with that kind of bet is made and lost.
We were warned a million times about a million things and they have all come true, what is the point of difference then between our views?
To think good people are putting it all out there on the line because of a wretched Leftard of a Forrest Gump.
Any other country, the march would end at the Governor's Mansion.
Not crappy, just true and aggressively anti-Democrat.
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