Those hired guns would be directly interfering with and arresting the very people elected to enforce the law in those counties.
Think about that for a second.
Let the ramifications of allowing appointed hirelings to overturn the will of the People, even to the degree they'd remove those elected people from their offices against the will of the electorate.
@Smokin Joe We are not going to have to imagine it for long because it is going to be a reality within a year in Virginia. The leftist weasel the yankee immigrants elected is as serious about this stuff as a heart-attack. Unlike a lot of pols who claim to be something for personal gain,this asshat is a True Believer,and between him and Terrible Terry McAulliffe,the guy he replaced,they have appointed enough lapdog yankee weasels in positions of authority with the Va police and courts that he considers it to be a done deal he is going to get away with.
And he might. This thing could easily go to total gun confiscation,or total anarchy and revolution. Too early to tell at this time which way it will go,but the one thing that is certain is the situation that exists now can't continue to exist. It IS going to go one way or the other. Governor Ralph Northam (just remembered his name) has gone too far now to back off,and thinks he now has total control over Virginia and has no intention of backing off.
This could get ugly quickly if the gun confiscation begins and shooting starts,which then causes gun owners from surrounding states to pick up their guns to go help the Virginia Militia.
Northham would have no option but activate the NG,but who knows which side they would show up to support? When that fails,his only option is to request federal troops,which would mean the 82nd Abn Division IF President Trump would give them to him,which would be a big surprise to me. Then the next question would be "How many of the enlisted swine in the 82nd Abn Division would shoot other Americans to help gun confiscation? Would they just refuse their orders and sit in protest,or would they join the rebels,bringing their equipment with them?
Don't say this CAN'T happen,either. I agree that it is unlikely,but don't forget,the British didn't think Americans would rise up to fight the Crown,either.
ALL it could take to light off that powder keg is ONE tv broadcast of Police,NG,and/or Federal troops dragging the dead bodies of a local family out of their house because they refused to turn their guns over,and it would be Game ON!
Unintended Consequences is more than the name of a movie.