Here’s the most recent email from VCDL. I just got my first Aid CPR instructor in class today to sign up, let’s go folks:
Governor Northam and the Democrat Leadership has
Declared War on Gun Owners
Rather than letting the Virginia Beach community continue to mourn and heal, the Governor, Lt. Governor, and the Attorney General are rushing to dance in the blood of the Virginia Beach massacre victims in order to draw attention away from their recent scandals. This is purely a political stunt and they are using our right to self-defense as their sacrificial lamb.
The Governor is calling the General Assembly into a special session around the end of June to do nothing but pass more useless gun-control. Gun control that would affect you and me, but has no correlation to anything the murderer did or had, and wouldn't have saved a single life in Virginia Beach.
The Governor and Democrat leadership see this as a chance to payback Michael Bloomberg for his large donations to Democrat campaigns by passing Bloomberg's gun-control wish list:
Red Flag laws - forget the unconstitutionality of this law, no one thought the Virginia Beach murderer to be a threat, so that law would have changed nothing
Universal Background Checks - the Virginia Beach murderer passed at least two background checks, just like the Virginia Tech murderer. And street thugs don't go through background checks to get their guns
"Assault Weapon" ban - no "assault weapons" were used in the Virginia Beach massacre. Long guns are rarely ever used in crime
Magazine-capacity limits - the commission on the Virginia Tech massacre concluded that restricting magazine size would not have changed the outcome
Silencer/suppressor ban - it is extremely rare that a lawfully owned suppressor is used in a crime. They are not popular with criminals because 1) the gun shot is still loud and 2) it doubles the length of a handgun, making it much more difficult to conceal
Bump-stock ban - bump stocks have only been used in one crime, out in Nevada and there is no evidence that it increased the number of injuries or fatalities.
Allow local government to implement gun control (get rid of firearm pre-emption law) - the Virginia Beach government building was already a "gun-free zone." What are they going to do, make it a double-gun-free-zone? This would make gun laws in Virginia extremely hard to comply with, benefiting criminals, who don't care about laws, and dissuading good people due to the complexities of carrying legally as they travel through the state
Not a single one of these proposed gun-control laws would have saved anyone in Virginia Beach.
But this is not about saving lives, it is about political theater.
WOULD ANYTHING HAVE SAVED LIVES IN THE VIRGINIA BEACH MASSACRE?
YES! Letting local and state government employees with concealed handgun permits carry concealed at work.
It is a basic human-right to be able to defend yourself! Neither the government, or anyone else, should be able to tell you that you must die as a helpless victim of a violent attack. We must put an end to gun-free zones!
VCDL IS TREATING THIS AS A SERIOUS THREAT AND YOU HAD BEST BE DOING SO, TOO
This will be an all-hands-on-deck fight, including as big a turnout as we can get when these gun bills are heard in the General Assembly. Please be ready to respond to any LEGISLATIVE ACTION ITEMS as they occur.
There is some serious dirty-tricks that can happen during such a special session that wouldn't bode well for gun owners or our freedoms. VCDL will be closely monitoring the session accordingly.
The Governor wants citizens to be contacting their legislators on this matter AND WE WILL! We will have an email and call-in campaign at the appropriate time.
VCDL'S BOTTOM LINE: NO MORE GUN CONTROL - NONE! NO MORE "GUN-FREE ZONES" - NONE!
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