Virginia had a law on the books for 19 years limiting handgun purchases to one a month, but — despite its effectiveness in curbing the illicit gun trade and appeals from families who lost loved ones in the Virginia Tech mass shooting — it was repealed in 2012 by the Republican-controlled legislature and then-Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R). Efforts to reinstate this sensible limit have failed, and Virginia is once again one of the largest suppliers of crime guns on the East Coast. [More]Oh, so they're using their new dominion to reinstate that time-tested Opposite Day "progressive" tactic of looking to the past.
Let's see what the people that won't affect -- the ones causing the problems -- have to say about that:
Jeez, guys, you don't have to laugh.
[Via Mack H]
When it comes to Old Virginny, it's always our fault.
ReplyDeleteSecond verse, same as the first.
So the crime guns from Virginia travel all through the North East up the Iron Pipeline causing death and destruction wherever they go. When I read those stories I stop and ask myself, "Why do they go to all that trouble. Why don't they just stay home and shoot up the place in Virginia?"
ReplyDeleteOr could it be that Virginia was better at controlling criminals than their neighbors in the North East. That was formerly red state and tough on crime Virginia. Now that Virginia is turning purple, it will be interesting to see if Richmond becomes more like Baltimore. Interesting is easy for me to say. I don't live in Richmond.
The WaPo's extreme disinterest in doing anything at all about the criminals who are misusing guns is blatantly obvious. Their obsession with inflicting any and all new restrictions on law-abiding gun purchasers is also obvious.
ReplyDeleteA swift and sure death penalty for gangbangers who kill would produce a zero recidivism rate, the effectiveness of which would be indisputable, but they refuse to even imagine that. That's because crime and criminals are not their target - we are.