The Virginia legislature passed a flurry of bills stripping away limitations on gun possession in the state. After intense lobbying from the National Rifle Association and over $1 million in NRA campaign contributions, the lawmakers passed 20 gun bills expanding possession and ownership rights in the state.
The bills include lifting the ban on buying more than one gun a month, allowing guns to be taken into bars and emergency shelters and allowing more people to get concealed handgun permits.
The timing of the passage of the laws is interesting with the arguments in the McDonald case only a couple weeks away. That case, to be argued during the first week of March, will determine whether the right of gun ownership, recognized in 2008, will be applied to the states as a fundamental right. That would mean that some restrictive laws could be found unconstitutional, including outright bans on handguns or concealed weapons.
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Its called freedom to protect your self and what is yours I worked for it .The police can not protect you, It is my right in this country to do that look at the people who has died for the wright to keep the rights that this country was built on . GET A LIFE AND SEE WHATS GOING ON AROUND YOU YOUR FREEDOM IS BEING TAKEN AWAY AND YOUR EYES AND MIND IS CLOSED.
“Why do I carry, because I am allowed to by law and I refuse to be a victim again. WHY DON’T YOU? This all being said, I have never open carried though I could have for many years, I don’t like the negative attention it brings-which it shouldn’t but I don’t wear a shirt that says I have never commited a crime, done drugs or plan to but people assume a lot.”
Because I’m confident in my penis size.
“Concealed weapons permit holder are nothing other than a citizen armed assistant to law enforcement and should be treated as such.”
The police don’t need concealed weapons, the army doesn’t need concealed weapons. Why do you?
“REALLY? So who’s the “bad” person? Me, who legally and responsibly owns a firearm or you who does illegal drugs and thinks everyone should. Hey, I got friends who have smoked their share and I don’t think any less of them as they are good people just as there are bad people that own guns. I think one of the important issues here is that because there are bad and good people in the world shouldn’t more good honest people have protection from the bad people?”
Yes, really, you mental midget. Drugs are only illegal because the government has made them so. Guns could easily be illegal. And then your pseduo moral argument would have no merit. The government arbitrarily decides what is legal and illegal based on nothing more than lobby pressure. Drug prohibition has nothing to do with public safety or morality, it’s about enforcing a monopoly on intoxicants with state power.
If you think you can ‘resist’ the government with you ‘firearm’ you are insane, crazy, have never stood next to an M1 tank or felt a 500lb bomb explode, probably all of the above.
You want your gun, so you think that you can fight of the darkies downtown, like john wayne would a ragtag bunch of hollering injuns. Be honest.
Our government is not totalitarian, except among fringe gun nuts who think ‘tyranny’ is letting anyone be president who isn’t a right wint republican or doing anything that isn’t endorsed by gun nuts and right wing nuts.
If our government resorts to ‘totalitarianism’ your 9mm isn’t going do jack, to a guided missled launched from a predator drone 20 thousand feet above. You would die in a cloud of dust and organic matter before you even knew you were being ‘oppressed.’
The founding fathers put the second amendment in so they could field an army by means of draft on the cheap and to address to concerns of the frontier. Not so in some mythical world you could lead a Star Wars rebel alliance freedom fight against the government with your handgun.
I just read some more posts on here and saw where a person was complaining about people having guns which is legal by the 2nd amendment and then they go on to say we should be required to smoke POT.
REALLY? So who’s the “bad” person? Me, who legally and responsibly owns a firearm or you who does illegal drugs and thinks everyone should. Hey, I got friends who have smoked their share and I don’t think any less of them as they are good people just as there are bad people that own guns. I think one of the important issues here is that because there are bad and good people in the world shouldn’t more good honest people have protection from the bad people?
Do your research. Know the laws. Be responsible.
The “guns in bars” bill now means that responsible people can now carry concealed in a Restaurant that serves alcohol or a bar. I say responsible because if you have a conceal carry permit in Va you have had firearms safety training and have passed a background check above and beyond the one to buy a new firearm from a gun shop. It has been legal, where acceptable for people to OPEN carry in the same restaurants or bars they can now conceal so not to scare the people who choose not to carry and I don’t want everyone to know I have a firearm especially in a bar. The criminals have been carrying concealed in rest./bars all along and nobody cared about that. You are NOT allowed to drink if you ARE conceal carrying and I agree completely with that as I can’t imagine giving a drunk person a gun just like I wouldn’t let them drive a car that way. Also, I would rather my carry gun be on me than in my car where someone could break in and steal it. I have it for protection as I HAVE been shot at in the past, if you haven’t you wouldn’t understand. I will protect the people that voted against this bill if anything happens, which I don’t expect will, but I am prepared even if you are not. I think it evens the playing field between the criminals and us law abiding citizens. Why do I carry, because I am allowed to by law and I refuse to be a victim again. WHY DON’T YOU? This all being said, I have never open carried though I could have for many years, I don’t like the negative attention it brings-which it shouldn’t but I don’t wear a shirt that says I have never commited a crime, done drugs or plan to but people assume a lot.
I commend the elected officials who voted for the rights of a “concealed” weapons permit holder. What people in this day and time fail to forget is WE are at war. It may not seem to be here on our homeland but take a closer look at the news media and realize this not your conventional war but a sneak attack is possible around any and every corner. Concealed weapons permit holder are nothing other than a citizen armed assistant to law enforcement and should be treated as such. We have gone through the proper channels to be registered and permitted. Do you think any criminal or madman has ? I say “Thank You” to our elected officials who have recognized our effort to be prepared for the worst.
Bob,
You will get no Hooch from me.
Elaine M.: “Looking for morality in politics is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack–a really BIG haystack.”
Then I guess I’m a hopeless romantic.
Bob, Esq.–
Looking for morality in politics is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack–a really BIG haystack.
“One explanation: political expediency.”
Not a good grounding for a metaphysics of morals; is it?
Bob,Esq.–
You asked me to explain Pelosi’s precluding the possibility of impeaching Bush and Obama’s “looking forward instead of back.”
One explanation: political expediency.
Byron: “how would you have impeached Bush? It was tried with Clinton and it failed. It was a political decision to not impeach Bush and frankly, even though I don’t care for Pelosi, she made the right decision from a purely political perspective. If she had done that McCain would be president and I doubt you would have had a democrat house or senate. So you could say she did it for her own self preservation as speaker without any concern for the country.
It may have shown she had balls but brains not so much. After all it is called politics for a reason. They dont call it “integritics”.”
Byron,
Bush confessed to defrauding the country into war. Bugliosi wrote a book about it.
Holding public office is not license to politicize crime.
Elaine M.: “That all may be true…” I’m not sure exactly what you’re referring to.
Everything you said leading up to: “Unfortunately, we probably have few TRUE liberals and conservatives in our two major political parties.”
Bob Esq:
how would you have impeached Bush? It was tried with Clinton and it failed. It was a political decision to not impeach Bush and frankly, even though I don’t care for Pelosi, she made the right decision from a purely political perspective. If she had done that McCain would be president and I doubt you would have had a democrat house or senate. So you could say she did it for her own self preservation as speaker without any concern for the country.
It may have shown she had balls but brains not so much. After all it is called politics for a reason. They dont call it “integritics”.