Virginia Governor Northam Increases Corrections Budget In Anticipation Of Jailing Gun Owners

Virginia Governor Northam Increases Corrections Budget In Anticipation Of Jailing Gun Owners
Daily Caller | December 24, 2019 | 10:30 AM ET


As if Virginia's Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s wholesale attack on law-abiding gun owners wasn’t enough, the disgraced public official and his Michael Bloomberg-bought allies in the General Assembly now want the state’s hard-working taxpayers to foot the bill for their unconstitutional schemes. The budget bill (HB30) includes an appropriation of a quarter million dollars to carry out a host of gun control measures that Northam and his anti-gun allies hope to enact.

The $250,000 is appropriated to the Corrections Special Reserve Fund in order to provide for the “increase in the operating cost of adult correctional facilities resulting from the enactment” of Northam’s gun control measures. Among the enumerated laws that this allocation is meant to fund is a ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, the criminalization of private firearms transfers, and gun confiscation orders issued without due process.

Aside from the insult of forcing law-abiding Virginia taxpayers to pay for the diminution of their rights, the gun control allocation is a severe waste of resources. Northam’s Bloomberg-backed gun control measures will not make Virginia safer.

In additional to being unconstitutional, a ban on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms will not reduce violent crime.

Long guns of any description are rarely used in violent crime. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data breaks down homicides by weapon type. In 2018, the FBI reported that there were five times as many individuals listed as killed with “knives or cutting instruments,” than with rifles of any kind. The data also showed that rifles were listed as being used in less homicides than “blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.)” or “personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.).”

A 1997 Department of Justice-funded study of the 1994 federal “assault weapons” ban determined that “At best, the assault weapons ban can have only a limited effect on total gun murders, because the banned weapons and magazines were never involved in more than a modest fraction of all gun murders.” A 2004 follow-up Department of Justice-funded study came to a similar conclusion. The study determined that “AWs [assault weapons] and LCMs [large capacity magazines] were used in only a minority of gun crimes prior to the 1994 federal ban,” “relatively few attacks involve more than 10 shots fired,” and “the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”

So-called “universal” background checks do not stop criminals from obtaining firearms.

Background checks don’t stop criminals from stealing firearms, getting them on the black market, or getting them from straw purchasers. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 75 percent of criminals in state and federal state prison who had possessed a firearm during their offense acquired the firearm through theft, “Off the street/underground market,” or “from a family member or friend, or as a gift.” Less than one percent got firearms from dealers or non-dealers at gun shows. ATF has reported, “[t]he most frequent type of trafficking channel identified in ATF investigations is straw purchasing from federally licensed firearms dealers.”

This year, researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the UC Davis School of Medicine found that comprehensive background checks and prohibitions based on violent misdemeanors “were not associated with changes in firearm suicide or homicide.”

Aside from enabling the unacceptable deprivation of constitutional rights without due process, an Extreme Risk Protection Order (Red Flag) law is unnecessary in Virginia because the state already has strong and effective civil commitment laws.

Under Virginia law, a law enforcement officer may take an individual into emergency custody for a mental health evaluation without prior court approval. A person detained in this manner is then evaluated to determine whether they meet the criteria for a temporary detention. A person that was subject to a temporary detention order and subsequently agreed to voluntary admission to a mental health facility is prohibited from possessing firearms until their rights are restored by a court.

Tax-paying Virginians should not have to foot the bill for Northam and Bloomberg’s radical attack on their fundamental rights.

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Coonman needs to be thrown out of office

The Wise And Powerful wrote:

Virginia Governor Northam Increases Corrections Budget In Anticipation Of Jailing Gun Owners
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Good for him
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it will never happen
the constitution would need to be rewritten.

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Good for him

It figures you'd champion some regressive jackass tryin' to strip people of their rights

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but it will never happen
the constitution would need to be rewritten.

You obviously haven't paid attention .. Democrats don't give a shit about the constitution

Northam is poking a beehive in Va .. People are gonna get killed if he keeps it up ..
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Looks like the control freak liberals are begging for another civil war.

Stevie Wonder can see where Northam and the left are going with this .. They'll keep throwing Charlottsville out there and then they'll cry *White Supremacists* and add identity politics and racial shit into the narrative

It shouldn't be a surprise that a large scale protest is planned after his bullshit ..it's likely there'll be plenty more .. So what's it matter if people are coming from "outside the commonwealth"? ..He can't keep people outta Va

There's a chance of violence, rioting, and protesters being armed at any large protest .. This sniveling bastid isn't special ..He created this left wingnut, commie bullshit, now he can deal with it ..Protesting is another right I can see that weak-kneed POS try to take away .. Send cops out to beat people up then complain about the violence and try to shut down future protests ..If antifa shows up the violence is inevitable

He and the media will spin the narrative into->gun owners are violent white supremacists and disarming them is the only way to stop the madness ..heh .. It will save lives ...children's lives ..Throw in some rhetoric about the constitution, saving democracy ...get the wingnut outrage mob triggered by it all .. Gun owners are transphobic! .....They Raysiss! ...haha

West Virginia Resolution Invites All Pro-2A Counties In Virginia To Secede And Join Them
ByWilliam Addisonon, January 15, 2020



In recent months, numerous counties in Virginia have become incensed over the proposition of a half-dozen strong gun-control measures.

In retaliation, nearly 100 counties in the state passed legislation deeming their jurisdiction a “Second Amendment sanctuary,” free from gun-control measures taken up in the state legislature.

However, things got even more interesting as a West Virginia resolution was introduced on Tuesday that invited these very counties to effectively secede from Virginia and become a part of the Mountain State.

“Providing for an election to be had, pending approval of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a majority of qualified citizens voting upon the proposition prior to August 1, 2020, for the admission of certain counties and independent cities of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be admitted to the State of West Virginia as constituent counties, under the provisions of Article VI, Section 11 of the Constitution of West Virginia,” read the resolution, submitted by 26 delegates.

Later in the resolution, it mentioned that if certain counties or cities decided to part from Virginia over the gun control matter, West Virginia residents would vote whether or not to adopt that county in the next election.

Take a look:

That the question of admission, or, the rejection of such admission, of any county or independent city of the Commonwealth of Virginia desiring admission to the State of West Virginia, and a majority of whose qualified voters, voting on the question, have approved such measure, prior to August 1, 2020, shall be submitted to the voters of the State of West Virginia at the next general election to be held in the year 2020.

Such proposal shall be placed upon the general election ballot in the following form: “Shall the following county (or independent city) _____________ (name), currently a constituent part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, be admitted to the State of West Virginia as a constituent county of the State of West Virginia.

The resolution spoke out harshly against the latest gun-control measures, saying Virginia has deviated from the founders. They cited Patrick Henry’s comments at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, in which he said, “The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.”

Virginia continues to move forward with its gun-control legislation, with greater background check requirements, the addition of red flag laws, and mandating that citizens can only purchase one gun per month.

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