The Cooch was not a big defender of the 2A. (Anti Constitutional Carry, ignored opportunity to join multi state AG amicus briefs.
** Legislative record says he was a big defender of 2A. I can provide cites for this if you wish. Attorney General has different constitutional obligations.
The Cooch was an enemy of the 4thA.
** cite, please?
The Cooch was against decriminalization of marijuana (10th A) (If the Feds needed a constitutional ammendment to start prohibition, how can the justify a war on marijuana without a similar ammendment?)
** this is an Open Carry forum so I won't refight the drug war here. I am a fairly recent convert against the WOD as I see now it contributing to Statist actions like no-knock warrants/entries. But I will observe that it will take a lot of emanations and penumbras to get marijuana wedged into the text of the Constitution.
Nobody is perfect and the Cooch was better than many, and certainly more liberty leaning than Terry the liar king. He was not, however, a man that was going to stand up to the statist world view and fully occupy The Commonwealth of Virginia's place in the world as a sovereign state. He would have taken some small victories and accepted some small defeats within the statist framework that now dominates all of us.
** first AG in the country to push back against ObamaCare, strong fighter against EPA outrages, strong legislative record on 2ndA. Granted he's not perfect but my life, maybe different than yours, has taught me that perfect is not to be found on this earth. So I accept the best visible/available option instead. YMMV.
** So now, with Terry, instead of accepting some small defeats, we can look forward to many major ones. I fail to see how that is an improvement. Wish it was otherwise.