On Thursday Governor Ralph Northam spoke to a multi-faith congregation at St. Paul’s Church in Richmond addressing the need for more restrictions on guns in Virginia. His desired restrictions include a prohibition of guns in churches.
We do not need these weapons on our streets and in our society,
Currently, the code of Virginia does not allow guns or other weapons in church,
§ 18.2-283. Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship.
If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason, to a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place he shall be guilty of a Class 4misdemeanor.
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A High School shooting threat at Brookville High and Amherst High.
Illegal aliens have been provided Santurary in this same area I hope our Reps don’t sit on their hands on this one also.
Time for armed guards in Va. Public Schools.
My kid’s middle school has a sheriff’s deputy. This is a calm rural area. I believe there is a sheriff’s deputy stationed at every school in this county.
More guns everywhere, what could go wrong?
Fewer deaths. Guns save lives.
I know, we live in a society where guns are only used for self protection, so this makes total sense.
You have a point here…if more people carried guns, then a larger percentage of democrats/leftists would probably be carrying too. Having more armed lunatics is probably not a great idea.
A real concern for sure. Look at the campus SJW/ANTIFA idiots committing all kinds of violence and destruction. Sadly, you can’t legally carry for self-defense on the grounds of colleges and universities so the leftist nuts get to use any weapon they create. Then, if someone actually fights back, they get accused of being the violent perpetrators.
Warmac wrote on-line that he tried to buy an AR-15 to deal with Hillary Clinton.
Hang on to that thought. Process it. Good news: They ripped him off (apparently, according to what he wrote on-line about it).
I cannot imagine how an AR-15 would help anyone deal with a president. If I wrote I bought one to deal with Trump, there’d be an outcry, and rightly so.
I have plenty of guns of all kinds, but I perish the thought of using one to deal with any person. Largely I have guns to deal with critters on my farm; Had a full size bear break into the house once.
I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Even for Warmac.
I am very concerned that Olson would be one of them. No lie is beyond him so it is logical to assume that no insane action is beyond him. The right to bear arms has been adjudicated many times and responsible purchase, care and use is required. I have to question whether any responsibility of any kind can be associated with the leftist provocateurs who have posted here – and that includes and much more.
OK, you claim I am a liar and devoid of Second Amendment rights.
Do you deny you paid $1,400 to purchase an AR-15 from REV-Arms?
Do you deny you wrote it was to deal with HRC?
Do you deny that you wrote the delay in its delivery was OK because she lost?
Proof: https://www.revdex.com/reviews/rev-arms/1872669
https://epictactical.com/rev-arms-business
How dare you suggest I am not entitled to my Second Amendment rights? The suggestion itself is the height of irresponsibility, and proof your so-called values are simply ends justify whatever means employed to achieve them.
Prove even one lie. I am meticulous, responsible and your suggestions to the contrary are slander and libel that even in allegation form could be use to unmask your pseudonymous cowardice.
P.S. The Danville police have open record rules. Shall we peruse them to confirm your claims and unmask your identity? Or shall we take slander/libel route? Which do you prefer?
This is the last time I will respond to you on anything. First, the fraud to the Danville police department was reported. Second, Hillary was and is a traitor – but, as usual, you fail to include the many message I sent opposing violence against her. I want her in prison as a lesson not dead as a martyr.
You have taken my comments out of context so often that there is no use in future discussions with you. Good bye.
Why would you purchase an AR-15 to deal with a potential president? Even a traitor?
Increasingly, I think this is a matter for the authorities. That you declared publicly your intent on purchasing an AR-15 to deal with a potential president is clear. It isn’t my place to judge without more information, but it is the sort of thing someone with sufficient authority ought investigate, as I know you would agree if it was me suggesting such a thing as regards someone else (other than HRC, whom you believe a traitor).
How do you want to proceed as regards your slander and libel? Declaring someone should be without Second Amendment rights is a very serious allegation that demands proof or retraction.
I consider protection of myself and my family ‘good and sufficient’ reason.
I guess that law dates back to a time when it was common for people to carry bowie knives.
Must be pretty old, definitely time to repeal it.
In the colonial days, kids would carry their rifles to school, and be prepared to use them if threatened.
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“We almost lost our country last fall. America was unwittingly on the precipice of becoming a nation whose government was willing to go to illegal and devious lengths to maintain the status quo.
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My church does have an armed security team. In the world we live in, I would not wish it any other way.
My church does too. Makes me feel better.
Jeanine: There is a serious issue brewing on this site and it involves direct threats of action against posters. As far as I am concerned, a vigorous debate is fine but when it tilts over to threats of actions, it is out of bounds. Allow me to give an immediate example from Olson:
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OK, you claim I am a liar and devoid of Second Amendment rights.
Do you deny you paid $1,400 to purchase an AR-15 from REV-Arms?
Do you deny you wrote it was to deal with HRC?
Do you deny that you wrote the delay in its delivery was OK because she lost?
Proof: https://www.revdex.com/revi…
https://epictactical.com/re…
How dare you suggest I am not entitled to my Second Amendment rights? The suggestion itself is the height of irresponsibility, and proof your so-called values are simply ends justify whatever means employed to achieve them.
Prove even one lie. I am meticulous, responsible and your suggestions to the contrary are slander and libel that even in allegation form could be use to unmask your pseudonymous cowardice.
P.S. The Danville police have open record rules. Shall we peruse them to confirm your claims and unmask your identity? Or shall we take slander/libel route? Which do you prefer?
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In the first segment, Olson presumes I bought an AR-15 to shoot Hillary. The opposite is true – I bought it to protect my rights to buy because she had deliberately and repeatedly said that something had to be done to take away those rights. Here, Olson does what he so often does and that is make an assumption that is wrong.
What is really disconcerting is his last paragraph which is an open and obvious threat. All of us have different reasons for posting and i am happy to debate anyone. But once the debate crosses the boundary into threat of action, I have to take it seriously. Olson states he has lots of guns, should I assume that he means that statement as a threat of violence to me and my family?
I have decided never to address Olson again on this site, and have advised him so. But I did think you should be made aware of how far this has gone.
The lives and security of your superiors are more important than the lives and security of you and your family. That’s the message, and the Democrat sheeple and Republican moderates believe it.
This is what happens when the leadership in government gets too distant from We the People. The Democrat leadership is particularly good at maintaining the welfare plantation in the cities. The Republican moderates don’t seem to care about citizenship.
Tell that to Republicans who impose laws on states from the federal level, and on localities from the state level, simply based on their chosen outcomes. Don’t want a meals tax in Middleburg? Tell Middleburg they cannot do it, that no locality may do it. States legalize marijuana? Sessions doesn’t care. And so on.
Welfare plantations in cities? The poor cannot afford to live in cities. I’ll tell you the poorest locality with the most welfare in America: Kiryas Joel, NY. Check it out. Trump supporters all:
“The poorest place in the United States is not a dusty Texas border town, a hollow in Appalachia, a remote Indian reservation or a blighted urban neighborhood. It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually nonexistent.”
“And, yet, officially, at least, none of the nation’s 3,700 villages, towns or cities with more than 10,000 people has a higher proportion of its population living in poverty than Kiryas Joel, N.Y., a community of mostly garden apartments and town houses 50 miles northwest of New York City in suburban Orange County.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/nyregion/kiryas-joel-a-village-with-the-numbers-not-the-image-of-the-poorest-place.html
Why do they officially live in poverty? Because it draws aid from the state and federal governments, aid that is used for primarily religious purposes (schools, parkls that segregate by gender, etc).
Congratulations. You win for most meandering and off-topic post of the day.
Meandering comes from responding to meandering posts. See the Warmac9999 post that led to the response.
It also is in New York, the state that competes with California for ripping off the tax paying middle class.
In addition to what Eric said, for you to say “Sessions doesn’t care” about states which have legalized pot is disingenuous at best. Sessions’ action only says that that Justice will enforce all the laws, without imposing its own policy preferences. If Congress wants to change the law, I’m pretty sure the AG will follow it. It’s called the rule of law.
Since I am gathering signatures for the primary, I talk to a lot of people. I am surprised at the large number of voters who have told me that they favor the legalization of cannabis. The reasoning is simple. Under the current system, drug gangs such as MS13 make huge nontaxable profits while voters are stuck with huge bills for the war on marijuana. legalize cannabis for huge inflows of new tax money. Not bad for a bunch of sheeple.
The problem is marijuana legalization isn’t nor should it be all about money. Your comment is obvious on its face, but having wide spread use and abuse of hallucinogen producing drugs is a serious health and moral issue. We have all of this concern about opioid abuses and addiction. What makes anyone think that marijuana legalization won’t eventually lead to similar abuses and addiction?
I am a retired pharmacist. For decades I legally sold cocaine, fentanyl, opioids and all of the other controlled drugs to people. It is possible that I know a bit about the subject.
Cannabis is a schedule one drug under federal law. Personally I think that needs to be changed.
It is about freedom. In fact, reliable stats show marijuana legalization leads to lower rates of opioid addiction. Marijuana is not a hallucinogen, nor is it an opiate.
Again, freedom.
Sessions doesn’t care means he is oblivious to the notion of states’ rights, and much to the consternation of many of his fellow Republicans. They immediately raised a stink over it on just the grounds I cited.