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| Ralph Northam is demonizing gun owners to distract from his racist past |
| 2020-01-23 |
| h/t Instapundit [Washington Examiner] - Ralph Northam, Virginia’s Democratic governor, declared a public emergency despite knowing there were no grounds for doing so. The governor, who recently overcame his history of racism to hang on to his current elected office, did this in his typically cynical fashion. He invoked the 2017 Charlottesville rally organized by neo-Nazis and suggested that a gathering by law-abiding gun owners in opposition to his gun control proposals would turn out similarly. In asserting that militia and hate groups had threatened violent acts at the rally, Northam was deliberately stoking irrational fears about what would happen Monday when gun owners converged on Richmond to protest his anti-Second Amendment agenda. When nothing bad happened at the rally, of course, Northam even had the gall to pat himself on the back for it. Such are the delusions of a man whose main goal at this point is to build a legacy comprising something other than the racist costumes on his yearbook page and the racist nickname he went by during the 1980s when he was already a full-grown adult. Northam thinks he can change the subject by denigrating and antagonizing gun owners. After all, there is no public safety purpose to most of his gun proposals, which Monday’s rally was staged to oppose. For example, why are they trying to limit the number of outdoor gun ranges in the state? Does someone think that criminals are using them to become too accurate? Why exactly are Virginia Democrats trying to bring back an unconstitutional "one-gun-a-month" purchase limit? And why did Northam’s Democratic minions in the state legislature, even as they advanced proven-ineffective gun control proposals, vote against a measure imposing additional penalties on those using guns to commit crimes? The unflattering truth is that Virginia Democrats want to be soft on violent criminals but, at the same time, signal their virtue by going hard on law-abiding gun owners. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 last refuge, etc |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-23 20:45 |
| #2 He's found a racket he thinks he can work. No different from Al Gore or Greta. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-23 17:26 |
| #1 Just remember, gun control's roots in the US is based in racism. Dems didn't want those uppity negros to get armed. So gun control=racism. Just like the Ralph Northam is racist! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-01-23 17:24 |