{"id":35720,"date":"2020-02-14T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=35720"},"modified":"2020-02-14T01:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T07:32:02","slug":"35720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=35720","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Virginia’s Model for Both Sides of Gun Debate<\/a>
\nAs Democrats advance anti-Second Amendment measures, Patriots fight back.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Like all would-be tyrants, as soon as Virginia Democrats took power following the last election, they began an all-out assault on the right to keep and bear arms,\u00a0unleashing a package of gun-control measures<\/a>\u00a0intended to strip Virginians of their right to defend themselves.<\/p>\n

The newest proposed measures include a ban on \u201cassault weapons\u201d such as the AR-15 and AK-47 rifles, magazines holding more than 12 rounds, and sound suppressors (\u201csilencers\u201d). That bill passed the House of Delegates yesterday.<\/p>\n

As a means of reducing mass shootings, such measures are worthless. According to the FBI, in 2018, just 297 of the 6,603 gun-related murders (4%) nationwide involved a rifle of any kind. In fact, knives (1,604) and fists\/kicking (656) were used to kill far more often.<\/p>\n

The \u201cprogressive\u201d obsession with the AR-15 is rooted in abject ignorance of all things gun related. Though they refer to AR-15s as \u201cassault weapons<\/a>\u201d and \u201cweapons of war,\u201d they are neither.<\/p>\n

\u201cAR\u201d stands for \u201cArmaLite Rifle,\u201d after the company that designed it. Furthermore, the Department of Defense defines an assault rifle as a \u201cselective fire\u201d rifle that can alternate between semi- (one shot fired per trigger pull) and full-auto (continuous fire). The AR-15 is semiautomatic, firing a .223 (or 5.56) round, which is smaller and less powerful than many hunting rifles. If we ban AR-15s, why not all hunting rifles and handguns? They are functionally equivalent.<\/p>\n

Gun grabbers claim the AR-15 is especially \u201cdangerous and unusual,\u201d attempting to get around the Supreme Court ruling in\u00a0DC v. Heller<\/em>, which found the Second Amendment protects weapons \u201cin common use by law-abiding citizens.\u201d But the AR-15 is the very definition of \u201ccommon use\u201d \u2014 more than 15 million AR-style rifles are currently in the hands of American citizens, and more than a million more are sold each year. In fact, one in five new firearms sold in the U.S. is an AR-style rifle.<\/p>\n

Yet far from America turning into the Wild West, as anti-gun hysterics claim, America has become more peaceful with the proliferation of firearms.\u00a0Gun crimes fell to historic lows<\/a>\u00a0after the expiration of the 1994 ban on \u201cassault weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reality, full-auto weapons have been effectively banned for civilian use since the National Firearms Act of 1934, and there have been only two deaths by full-auto weapons in the last 40 years.<\/p>\n

But in the grand scheme of things, this is all just semantics and details. The Constitution protects our right to keep and bear arms, period, regardless of arguments and statistics.<\/p>\n

Yet\u00a0Socialist Democrats<\/a>\u00a0reject the meaning of \u201cshall not be infringed.\u201d For decades, Democrats have sought to erode or eliminate this most fundamental of human and American rights. They couch their assaults in terms like \u201cpublic safety\u201d and \u201ccommonsense gun control,\u201d insisting that no one needs certain types of weapons for hunting and sport shooting. Untrue, but irrelevant. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting and everything to do with providing a firm check against the rise of tyrannical government.<\/p>\n

In 1787, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers of conspiring men and asked, \u201cWhat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. \u2026 The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is it any surprise the state seal for Virginia is an image of a robed Virtus (Virtue) standing, spear in hand, over the body of Tyranny? The state motto is \u201csic semper tyrannis,\u201d meaning \u201cthus always to tyrants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jefferson was a native of Virginia, and it seems many of his fellow Virginians still have the fire of Liberty, and resistance to tyranny, burning in their breasts, judging by the\u00a022,000 gun owners protesting<\/a>\u00a0at the state capitol recently. Or the fact that 141 counties and cities have declared themselves \u201cgun sanctuaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the announcement of the proposed gun-control laws, Virginia gun sales nearly doubled, with nearly 70,000 gun background checks in a single month. Gun owners continue to show up at rallies, chanting\u00a0\u201cWe will not comply!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun owners are by nature peaceful and law-abiding. They seek peace, but are prepared to defend themselves and their families, whether from armed intruders or a\u00a0tyrannical government<\/a>. That is a fact that Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam and the Democrats in the state legislature\u00a0would do well to remember<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Virginia’s Model for Both Sides of Gun Debate As Democrats advance anti-Second Amendment measures, Patriots fight back. Like all would-be tyrants, as soon as Virginia Democrats took power following the last election, they began an all-out assault on the right to keep and bear arms,\u00a0unleashing a package of gun-control measures\u00a0intended to strip Virginians of their … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35721,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions\/35721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}