Virginia Dems drop AR-15 Confiscation.
Wasn't the "pro-gun" blogosphere just talking about the only thing that could result from showing up at the capitol was being called racists?
Didn't they say it was certain that the media would only report on the Klan robes and Nazi flags?
Didn't they say to not go to the capitol because of that?
Hmmmmmm.
Almost as if they were completely wrong.
Just remember how wrong they were when you read their opening paragraphs insulting everyone who did show up and got something accomplished.
They withdrew it now. Just wait. It'll show up 6 months from now in some wastewater management plan that no one will read until 'too late.'
ReplyDeleteThe evil ones have shown their agenda, their hands. From now on they cannot be trusted no matter what they say.
And, yes, grassroots uprisings work rather well, kind of like Florida Carry's lawsuit against Broward County and the County Administrator, which would never have happened until some grassrooted bumpkins decided to actually exercise their rights and the Broward Gestapo and Stasi freaked out.
But the same gun-rights people who are anti-standing up in Virginia also said the slope-headed gun-LARPers of Florida Carry were hurting our rights...
Funny, I was under the impression that VCDL's Lobby Day event is still some 5 days hence.
ReplyDeleteWas I mistaken, or is there not still another shoe left to drop?
And perhaps, given this turn of events, VCDL might wish to cancel their planned and still upcoming event as superfluous, and move on to something more productive, with a bit sharper focus than originally intended.
Also worth considering: I suspect the NRA's effort was a bit better organized than anything yet to pass, and less widely-trumpeted beforehand. Almost like there's a couple of lessons to be learned there.
I'd love to hear about that latter bit from anyone with firsthand knowledge.
I was told that ANY gathering at the capitol would result there being a contingent of racists and Nazis which would be the sole focus of all the cameras.
DeleteThat it was inescapable and that nobody should attend ANY such rally.
Do you really think there's much difference in the people who will attend under the NRA banner as the VCDL?
Let's re-visit that question on the 21st, shall we?
DeleteI never said "any rally" was a problem, I only referred to VCDL's open-invitation clown show. I can't answer regarding anyone else you may have read.
As for the NRA, which is usually the NRA-MIA, if they accomplished anything lasting, well and good for them. But from the photos in the Beacon, it seems they all showed up either in NRA t-shirts, or normal/business attire, and no open-carried firearms were in evidence in the photos. Almost like they might have told their membership that that sort of thing wouldn't be a good idea, and exactly contrary to the chest-beating going on from those stirring up the anonymous internet Bubbas about the VCDL-sponsored rally on 1/20.
Kind of an apples-to-oranges situation, wouldn't you say?
Say, how about that state of emergency and banning all firearms on the capitol grounds declaration the governor just announced (which doesn't seem to have been necessary for the NRA members showing up to speak in the legislature)?
This seems to be getting better by the minute, if repeating Charlottesville is the game plan.
I repeat, if the NRA event was so successful, why shouldn't VCDL call off the superfluous second event, and focus their time and money on more productive endeavors, on far more favorable terms?
I'd much rather see them build on their momentum to date by not running face-first into a brick wall, and handing the media clowns ready-made photo ops of fail.
I would think you'd like that too.
We both know Gov. Blackface Babbykiller is a gun-grabbing goon, so why make his case for him, and why walk our own people into another Soros-funded rent-a-mob, when there are so many better and smarter ways to fight this?
Why do you assume I'm referring to you?
DeleteI don't, as I said above.
DeleteBut I have expressed pretty stridently that the VCDL event looks like a bad idea, on any level: Everything to lose, and little to nothing to win.
Despite the NRA event's apparent success, with a drastically different approach, that estimation hasn't changed for next week, other than to be more accurate, in light of the most recent events.
If (if!) VCDL manages to not jump on the minefield next week, it may be because Gov. Gungrabber issued a no-weapons order for the upcoming event. How ironic. I suspect that possible reality isn't going to sit well with the wingnuts, if they manage to pull this off without a body count despite their intentions.
I'd like to see them succeed, somehow, but the best way to do that would probably require being no-shows to the party as scheduled, or else emulating the saner, earlier event. But given the lack of planning, I can't see any way they pull that off, because while they might control some or even most of their own people, they'll have nothing to say about the performance of any "crisis actors" almost sure to be ginned up for the cameras by the opposition.
The enemy gets a vote. VCDL seems to have forgotten that maxim.
The NRA brought their own cheese to their event; but it looks like VCDL is just going to get the trap.
We can agree to hope they somehow manage to pull it off without damage to the 2A cause, or casualties.
it is fake, in that they didn't drop it. they just moved it to the end and called it a different name. its now hb961 and reads exactly the same. the media knows this and is purposely not reporting it. even local media is involved. they are actually owned by the big guys, against fcc rules.
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