marshaul
Campaign Veteran
I have a meta-question for Virginians:
Why the hell do we allow laws like this to remain on the books?
In Virginia, if your gun malfunctions and discharges in your own home, you are an instant felon. Same result if you've ever had an ND. Why is there not a constant outcry to fix this? Any one of us could potentially lose our RKBA, for quite literally nothing.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-279
Why is it, when we had a supposedly "pro-gun" Republican government, and before the Newton tragedy, there was no push to substantially reform Virginia's gun laws?
Concealed carry in a glovebox is a joke, and that's about the only progress we made.
Another one that frosts my pickles is the archaic, first-half-of-the-century style bloated National Forest regulations, which subjects hikers with the same ridiculous set of impossible-to-learn regulations that hunters face. (Jefferson is probably spinning in his grave knowing that his name is applied to the biggest gun-free zone in the state.)
Virginia has good gun laws overall, but there are a few areas where we couldn't be any worse than California, and yet I see absolutely zero impetus to do anything about it.
Why is that?
Why the hell do we allow laws like this to remain on the books?
In Virginia, if your gun malfunctions and discharges in your own home, you are an instant felon. Same result if you've ever had an ND. Why is there not a constant outcry to fix this? Any one of us could potentially lose our RKBA, for quite literally nothing.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+18.2-279
Why is it, when we had a supposedly "pro-gun" Republican government, and before the Newton tragedy, there was no push to substantially reform Virginia's gun laws?
Concealed carry in a glovebox is a joke, and that's about the only progress we made.
Another one that frosts my pickles is the archaic, first-half-of-the-century style bloated National Forest regulations, which subjects hikers with the same ridiculous set of impossible-to-learn regulations that hunters face. (Jefferson is probably spinning in his grave knowing that his name is applied to the biggest gun-free zone in the state.)
Virginia has good gun laws overall, but there are a few areas where we couldn't be any worse than California, and yet I see absolutely zero impetus to do anything about it.
Why is that?
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