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This man is afraid that HE might lose control of himself, and thus believes that everybody must be like him. There is no hope for him and people like him as their world is just too scary a place to live in -- so they spend their time hiding.
Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., D-Chesapeake, tried to end that particular Virginia tradition again this year, but pulled his own bill last week when he realized it would never make it out of committee. Again.
So he submitted it as a proposed rules change, where it had to be read on the House floor five days in a row, then voted on. It didn't just die — it was pulverized 77-18.
"Why in the world would you want to have a gun on the House floor?" Spruill said to me Wednesday, clearly upset. "Sometimes you get into a heated discussion — you never know what people will do when they get into a heated discussion."
First, I'd like to see the numbers that show that Virginians "overwhelmingly" favor tighter gun laws. I'd also like to see how the questions were asked, just to test for any possible bias in the wording.
Second, I disagree with the statement that members of the General Assembly look on tightening gun laws as political suicide. Instead, I strongly believe they are hearing and responding to the claim is that guns are not the problem, but that the person who misuses a gun is the problem. As we know, there are more than enough laws already out there. We need to get them used.
A Christopher Newport University statewide poll this month shows that Virginians of both parties overwhelmingly favor tighter gun laws — including closing the gun-show loophole.
Yet lawmakers continue to act as if tightening gun laws is volunteering for a political wood chipper.
As much as I am disturbed and disgusted by the biased rhetoric of most of the rest of her column, I fully agree with this portion.
"Come over to the dark side, Luke." We'll see if THEIR guns go off without provocation, causing the streets to run red with the blood they said would be there because of "us." If that happens, then I'm going to want to know where they got their guns at, because mine and yours would be proven to be defective, and we'd need to replace them with properly functioning killers.
On the other hand, it would be worth the price of an admission ticket to be there when they realize "they" have become "us" and nothing happened.
It strikes me that gun-control advocates have been using the wrong ammunition.
Lie-ins and heartfelt speeches have their place, but don't carry the same weight in Richmond as a Glock or a Smith & Wesson openly strapped to a leg or hip.
If you're serious about gun control and want to grab the attention of lawmakers, start buying as much firepower as the law allows.
Carry your firearms anywhere and everywhere it's legal to do so. It's easy — this is Virginia.
Then visit your legislators very, very, very often and, this is important: Pack heat every single time.
Stop lying down, and let those metal detectors sing out like Megadeth — the soundtrack of Virginia gun law politics.
How do you think she would respond to an offer to buy her a fancy belt & holster set if she will buy a gun?
stay safe.
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