@Smokin Joe
I REALLY hoped that was the way to go,but after seeing who the Lt.Governor is,that hope was shot down in flames.
I hope somebody a LOT smarter than me can figure out a way to solve this peacefully,because I sure can't see one at this point. It MIGHT take a Presidential or Supreme Court decree to make Northam back down,but I know so little about the law I am not even sure that is possible. Or practical,politically.
IF actual confiscations and shooting starts,it's going to get ugly quickly. I don't think the left either understands or appreciates the restraint that has held the right back up to this point,but if the government starts shooting citizens to confiscate their guns,that cat is out of the bag and I don't think the American Aristocrats of the Left will survive it. I have no doubt they have plans to leave the country for estates in South America and other places,but that doesn't mean they can't be tracked down and taken where found. ESPECIALLY since they all grew up surrounded and protected by wealth and power,and "reserve" and "restraint" are not words they are real familiar with. They are still going to to to plays,soccer matches,horse races,the theater,etc,etc,etc. Where is the fun in having great wealth and power if you can't flaunt it,right?
The world will be too small to ensure the safety of people who injure these United States. That has been proven with a number of people who would attack us, who commit crimes against humanity, regardless of their background or where they flee. No one is untouchable in the face of a determined opponent, and attempts to be will only prove the need for their removal.
Note George Washington sent the detachment detailed for his security home, saying the love of his countrymen would be enough to ensure his safety. This from a man who refused to be made King. (A rare sort of man this nation was indeed blessed to have).
How much that has changed.
While I, too, hope for a peaceful and Constitutional resolution, I agree that those on the Left, the same ones who would "never let a crisis go to waste", have been doing all they can to attempt to foment just such a crisis they could exploit since Obama was in office (and before). They have tried every division line, be it color, race, nation of origin, religion, the murder of unborn children and infanticide, economic exploitation, the serious damage to the American healthcare industry, the presentation of perversion as normal and objection to it as a thing to be reviled--they have pushed all the buttons they had except this one. Just like the British did in the Colonies, they have come down to the final straw. They know it for what it is, they have spent generations dumbing down Americans and brainwashing them with a lot of pap thinking that when the shoe drops we will abandon our basic nature and comply or unite against those who simply demand our Rights. This is the sort of thing the Second Amendment was written for. Reading the Federalist proves that, but typical of Leftists, they have convinced themselves of the veracity of their own propaganda.
These words may be familiar, having been penned over two centuries ago, but sum up the essence of America.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
WIll the Dems push it that far? If so, how will they exploit the crisis they create in order to further overthrow the Constitution and the Republic? (if they can).
Given that the Democrat Party has been largely, if not thoroughly, hijacked by Communists (Marxist totalitarians) since the late 1960s, and that that takeover of that institution is nearly complete, how will those same Marxist totalitarians use any subsequent events to consolidate power, rather than back down?
I fully expect false flag attacks on minor officials or perhaps just the ordinary citizens, I fully expect there to be heavy infiltration of organizations with people who will attempt to gain popular support for unwise action.
That isn't shrinking from what may have to happen, just a caution that there will be more Benedict Arnolds running about than ever, seeking favor with their masters, attempting to lead people into bad tactical situations so they can 'be made an example of', or so the optics can be used to rally opposition to those who seek to keep their Rights. Expect the media to be saturated with lies, but that is no different from now, just bloodier ones granting attribution for atrocities performed by totalitarian forces to those who fight them, should this go hot.
With that in mind, note that passive noncompliance killed the Canadian Long Gun Registry, and every form of peaceful resistance that can be mustered should be, prior to any hot confrontation. Any hot confrontation is something that must be documented, and that documentation proving that the initiation of hostilities, should that happen, has been forced or done by those in conflict with our Civil Rights.
This is not a venue for hot heads, but time for careful and dispassionate consideration of actions and how the world will see them. Much can be done to thwart the tactical implementation of policy without a firearm ever being in evidence (ever work road construction?), and those same techniques could be used to render any attempt at force less viable.
Above all, though, short of all out hostility, people should keep in mind that those most often harmed by conflict are those who live there, a concept that most of Virginia should be familiar with, considering the relative absence of antebellum structures in much of the State. Impact on the citizenry should be confined to the effects of the demented totalitarian behaviour of the rogue government and mitigated by those in opposition to the unconstitutional actions proposed thereby.
Unfortunately, the 800 lb gorilla in the room remains the powers usurped by The Patriot Act, which could be used against any righteous objectors to this unconstitutional, totalitarian, Communist crap.
As for the Lt. Governor, recall that one, too, and the Democrats in the legislature as well. Clean house. Better to have merely inexperienced or even incompetent people in the Legislature than enemies of Liberty.
