Perhaps it's small of me, but after the whole "sanctuary cities don't exist, wingnut!" -> "sanctuary cities are real, and they're spectacular!" two-step on illegal immigration, I am delighted to see the shoe on the other foot.
Yes, one can quibble about how technically legal this is. Here's the point: I don't care if it's technically legal or not. Sanctuary cities and states are against the spirit of the law, where if legislation is duly passed one would expect it to be uncontroversially followed while its opponents tried to repeal it through the same process. If instead Gavin Newsom is going to stand in the schoolhouse door shouting "illegal immigration today, illegal immigration tomorrow, illegal immigration forever"? He and his friends have no grounds to complain when the other side realizes laws are just words on paper too.
A group of West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a resolution inviting Virginia counties frustrated by gun control efforts to switch states.
In a display of pro-Second Amendment solidarity, a group of West Virginia lawmakers have introduced a resolution inviting Virginia counties frustrated by gun control efforts to switch states.
Delegates in the lower house of the West Virginia Legislature put the proposal forth on Tuesday.
House Concurrent Resolution 8 would allow certain Virginia counties and independent cities to be admitted to West Virginia as constituent counties.
The group of 20 West Virginia Republicans, and one Independent, introducing the resolution said in the proposal that Virginia lawmakers have repudiated “the counsel of that tribune of liberty, Patrick Henry-who stated to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788 that ‘The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.'”
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HCR8’s language makes clear West Virginia lawmakers are motivated both by their state’s historically close ties to their neighbor in the east and the ideological battle currently raging in Virginia over gun laws.
Delegate Gary Howell, one of the West Virginia Republicans who introduced HCR8, told Pluralist that Virginians have been reaching out to him for help protecting their Constitutional rights.
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“Borders are just lines on a map. It appears those lines now make less sense than they did in 1863, so why not redraw them peacefully.”
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Already this week, a huge number of pro-gun activists have flooded Richmond in a show of strength.
Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam plans to declare an emergency ban on all weapons, including guns, from Capitol Square ahead of a massive rally planned next week over gun rights, according to The Associated Press.
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I’ve always been an advocate of playing by the left’s new rules, and this is a great opportunity to new rules the libs good and hard. We got your sanctuary right here, pinkos.
See, the left decided that Virginia, whose northern reaches are now full of government workers and other garbage people, needed to turn blue. With tons of lib donor money and the aid of a typically inept state GOP (I know those feel here in California), they managed to just barely grab control of both houses of the legislature. With Governor Byrd-Jolson in charge, they immediately promised to do away with the Second Amendment. They announced that they were going to confiscate the citizens’ scary guns and do all sorts of other things to show those disobedient, probably Jesus-loving rubes who was boss.
Except, as Chairman Mao – who you think these dorks would appreciate more – pointed out, power grows from the barrel of a gun, not out of a mean tweet.
Instantly, everyone outside the garbage counties locked and loaded their freedom and so the Second Amendment sanctuary movement began. County after county, and many cities, all committed to resisting if the state tried enforcing unconstitutional gun laws against normal citizens. And it was beautiful. The Dems wet themselves.
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The Democrats freaked out, stunned that normal people responded to their diktats with middle fingers instead of abject submission. One lib threatened to turn the National Guard on the people of Virginia, which is a neat trick since the National Guard is made up of the people of Virginia. As a colonel who served for years in the National Guard (Remember the Rodney King riots? My time in them on the good guy’s side reaffirmed why I believe every able-bodied, healthy American adult should have a real assault rifle in his/her/xir house), I can safely say this would be a poor idea. Sure, some bootlickers might participate in such manifestly illegal warfare on free Americans, but most soldiers would – as is their obligation – refuse to commit such crimes. In fact, if Governor Duke Trudeau ever did consider the mass oppression of American citizens by military forces as his fellow Democrat threatened, the President should federalize the Virginia Guard and use it to restore a republican form of government in the state.
In any case, the Democrats have finally found a kind of sanctuary city they won’t goo goo over – one that protects the constitutional rights of American citizens instead of one that undermines and breaks the duly-enacted laws passed by the American people’s representatives for the benefit of foreigners who shouldn’t be here in the first place.
It’s eighty degrees already, right out of forty degrees in good old Virginia fashion. There’s a small chance of a thunderstorm on the horizon late tonight, though I haven’t been able to smell the ozone yet. It doesn’t quite look like a storm—that yellow-green haze hasn’t settled over everything, and the air isn’t snapping with currents along my skin.
It’s eighty degrees and sunny today, and all I’ve wanted to do is run down Monument, sit out on my old balcony with the white blooming tree—I don’t think it’s a dogwood, but I’m not sure what it is—out front, and go down to the river and the rocks with bourbon and guitars.
I have none of that; I can do none of that. Perhaps sangria and guitars on a new balcony—minus the already-blooming trees, for the ones further north haven’t quite started in full just yet—and a small hike through the park to the lake will suffice.
Perhaps we can sleep with the windows open, now that the only noises are spring frogs and crickets and cicadas coming out from their 17-year hatching cycle, and pretend we’re everywhere else but here.
