Rep. Ron Estes On The Second Amendment

Above, the Second Amendment Rally at The Roundhouse in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This is something that Governors Northam, Lujan Grisham, Newsom and others should pay close attention to.

CPAC 2020 is being held this weekend and Rep. Ron Estes has explained the purpose of the Second Amendment.

The Daily Caller reported:

Kansas Republican Rep. Ron Estes pulled no punches when describing the purpose of the Second Amendment during a panel discussion at CPAC 2020 on Friday. 

“The primary goal of having a well regulated militia is to make sure we protect ourselves from the government,” he told his audience, distancing himself from those who support the right to bear arms for solely sporting purposes. 

He also outlined “3 differents standpoints,” from which the Second Amendment can be understood. A person may choose to bear arms for defence against their fellow citizens, for hunting, or to resist tyranny, explained the congressman. 

Estes was joined in this position by former Representative Brat who agreed that the Second Amendment “ain’t there for hunting folks, it’s there to protect us from tyrannical governments.” 

If these governors and other politicians want to rule as tyrants, the people can constitutionally overthrow them via the Second Amendment.

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Gun Ban Fails In Virginia Senate

Second Amendment constitutional rights were upheld in a stunning victory in Virginia.

The Blaze reported:

Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's all-in push to ban the sale of assault weapons was rejected in the state's Senate after moderate Democrats joined Republican colleagues to sink the initiative Monday.

Cheers erupted in the committee room packed with gun supporters as senators voted to put the bill on hold for a year so that the state's crime commission could study the issue, the Associated Press reported. 

Four Democrats decided to vote with Republicans on the issue, rejecting legislation that aimed to outlaw new sales of some semiautomatic firearms, such as the AR-15 rifle, and require current owners of such firearms to register with the government within the year. The bill would also have criminalized the possession of magazines that hold more than 12 rounds.

To read more, go here. 

Virginia Democrats Push Weapons Ban and Magazine Confiscation

Virginia residents who cherish their Second Amendment rights had better get on the ball and start organizing recalls of radical Democrats, otherwise, they will see those rights fast disappear.

The latest comes from the Washington Free Beacon:

Virginia Democrats on Friday pushed a bill through the state house of delegates' Public Safety Committee that would ban the sale of "assault weapons" and confiscate certain ammunition magazines. 

The bill, HB961, is the most controversial advanced by Democratic lawmakers and Governor Ralph Northam (D.) since they took control of both houses of the state legislature in November. It would outlaw new sales of some of the country's most popular firearms, including the AR-15, and make it illegal to possess ammunition magazines capable of holding more than 12 rounds, even if they were previously legally purchased. Friday's vote was along party lines, with one Democrat abstaining. 

The proposal could affect millions of Virginia gun owners, according to the firearms industry's trade group.

"This bill would affect more than just your modern sporting rifles like the AR-15," Mark Oliva, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told the Washington Free Beacon. "It would affect the vast majority of handguns."

To read more, go here. 

At Today's Virginia Gun Rally

Governor Ralph Northam banned guns at today's Second Amendment rally at the Capitol.

Something else was brought instead:

Gov. Northam's War On Virginia's Gun Owners

Gun owners around the country have their eyes on the state of Virginia.

There's no small wonder why this is so. The governor and the Democrat-controlled legislature are at war with Virginia's gun owners. I musr remind you that the Democrats who won last November were bankrolled by anti-Second Amendment Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomberg recently visited Virginia and said that he wasn't out to take anyone's guns. As if we'd believe that.

Stephen P. Halbrook has an excellent opinion piece on Virginia in the Washington Times.

He begins it with:

War has been declared on Virginia’s gun owners by the Democrats who recently won both houses of the General Assembly. Most notorious is Senate Bill 16 by Senate Majority Leader Richard Saslaw, which would impose five years imprisonment on law-abiding citizens who possess the most common firearms in America today. Among other proposed restrictions on conduct that has been lawful since Jamestown was settled in 1607, not one would penalize criminal misuse of guns. 

The firearms to be banned are mostly semiautomatic rifles with features that facilitate accurate shooting. They include an adjustable shoulder stock to make it fit one’s size, a pistol grip to enable a firm hold (the same type used in Olympic rifles), and a muzzle brake to reduce kick. Even a flare launcher is a banned feature — distress signals will be verboten. These innocuous features somehow transform a gun into an “assault” weapon in the proponents’ fantasy land.   

Throughout the Commonwealth, around a hundred counties and cities have reacted by declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries. That’s a national trend arising in states being subjected to one infringement after another on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. 

Gov. Ralph Northam, best known for his gig in blackface or a Klan hood, threatened localities with “consequences” if their law enforcement officers don’t enforce the coming gun laws. U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin proposed that Mr. Northam should call out the National Guard to bring the sanctuaries under the boot. Perhaps Guardsmen would establish checkpoints on the streets to pat down residents or conduct house-to-house searches. But don’t count on members of the Guard to do that to their neighbors.

To read more, go here. 

Why Gov. Northam's Proposed Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and his Democrat legislature want to ban semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15.

He contends that his proposed ban is "constitutional".

NRA-ILA has an article which clearly states why such a ban is unconstitutional.

It reads in part:

In a Wednesday meeting with reporters, Northam offered a veiled threat to sanctuary jurisdictions that have promised to not enforce unconstitutional gun laws stating, “If we have constitutional laws on the books and law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books then there are going to be some consequences…” The governor went on to say “Any law that we pass in Richmond and the 8 pieces of legislation that I put on the table back in July - they’re constitutional, so that’s not going to be an issue.” 

Northam’s allies in Richmond have proposed firearm confiscation legislation that would prohibit the sale and possession of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms like the AR-15. The governor has stated that he intends to push legislation that would ban such firearms but grandfather possession by gun owners who register their firearms with the government. 

Banning commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms under either proposal is unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that governments cannot ban these firearms as they are “in common use” for lawful purposes. 

Taken alone, Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion in Heller is enough to dispose of Northam’s comments. In the decision, Justice Scalia made clear that the types of firearms protected by the Second Amendment include those “in common use at the time” for “lawful purposes like self-defense.” 

The firearms industry has estimated that Americans own more than 17.5 million semi-automatic rifles. The AR-15 is the most popular rifle in the U.S. and therefore indisputably “in common use” and protected by the Second Amendment. 

Further, in the 1994 case Staples v. United States, the Supreme Court determined that semi-automatic rifles were common. The case concerned the criminal intent requirement for a conviction for possession of an unregistered machine gun. The subject of the case had argued that he was unaware that the AR-15 in his possession had been modified for automatic fire and was not simply a legal semi-automatic AR-15. In the majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas made clear that the mere possession of a converted AR-15 is not enough to infer intent sufficient for conviction, as some firearms are “so commonplace and generally available that we would not consider them to alert individuals to the likelihood of strict regulation.” Justice Thomas went on to write that most categories of guns, including semi-automatic rifles, “traditionally have been widely accepted as lawful possessions.”

To read more, go here. 

Virginia Democrats Make Small Concession On Gun Confiscation

Virginia Democrats made a slight, partial cave on the issue of gun confiscation, but that was not enough to satisfy defenders of the Second Amendment. And rightfully so.

The Washington Free Beacon reported:

Virginia Democratic leaders abandoned their gun confiscation proposal Monday following a grassroots outpouring of opposition to gun control across the state. 

Governor Ralph Northam (D.) and incoming Senate majority leader Dick Saslaw (D.) said they will no longer pursue their marquee plan to ban the possession of "assault weapons." Instead, they will include a provision to allow Virginians to keep the firearms they already own. The reversal comes before the newly elected Democratic majority has even been sworn in, after a majority of the state's counties declared themselves "Second Amendment sanctuaries." 

"In this case, the governor's assault weapons ban will include a grandfather clause for individuals who already own assault weapons, with the requirement they register their weapons before the end of a designated grace period," Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky told the Virginia Mercury.

The Democrats' backtracking may indicate a trend in the gun debate in Virginia. Gun-control advocates poured millions of dollars into successfully flipping the state legislature, but the outpouring of opposition to their agenda, even in deep blue areas, may cause some new members of the state legislature to be cautious about backing gun control. The concession is unlikely to end the fight brewing across the state, however, as Democrats still plan to pursue a ban on many new sales.

Gun registration? Hell no! The fight goes on.

At present, there are 59 Second Amendment sanctuaries in Virginia.

To read more, go here. 

Virginia Democrats Planning For Gun Confiscation

This is what happens when a "red state" (Republican) turns into a "blue state" (Democrat).

When the Democrats won control of the the Virginia legislature (they take over next month) during the November elections, plans commenced for some of the most radical anti-Second Amendment laws the country has ever seen.

From the Daily Wire:

After taking complete control of the state, Virginia Democrats are beginning to enact their left-wing agenda to undermine Americans’ constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights. 

The legislative action comes after leftist Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam announced at the beginning of last month that Democrats “will at least start” their attempts to restrict Virginian’s constitutional rights by “banning the sale of [semi-automatic firearms] and high-capacity magazines, restoring the law that limits purchases to one gun a month, and a red flag law that would empower a court to temporarily remove a gun from a person deemed to be a risk to himself or others,” The Washington Post reported.

When Northam was asked about confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens, the governor responded, “that’s something I’m working [on] with our secretary of public safety.” 

Free Beacon Second Amendment reporter Stephen Gutowski noted the proposed legislation on Monday, tweeting: “Meanwhile Virginia Democrats are filing bills to make the possession of millions of currently-owned firearms illegal. SB16 bans possession of many rifles without any grandfathering provision which means it’s confiscation.” 

The legislation that Gutowski linked to included § 18.2-308.8, which proposes banning the “importation, sale, possession, etc., of assault firearms.” 

The way that the legislation defines “assault firearms” would effectively ban nearly all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns, which are owned by tens of millions of Americans.

This is an excellent example why NOBODY should vote for any Democrat, from the federal level on down to the local government levels.

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Democrats Made Their Own Infanticide, Socialist and Anti-Semite Labels

When the Democrats are called out for what they are, they and their media lackeys just can't stand it.

For weeks, Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders and many others came "out of the closet" and proclaimed their socialism and others, such as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam among many, have supported late-term abortions as well as infanticide after "botched" abortions. Senate Democrats defeated a bill that would allow for medical aid for babies born alive after such botched abortions.

Some Democrats have been openly hostile to the state of Israel and Jews in particular.

The New York Times whined:

WASHINGTON — In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite. 

That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats well in advance of the 2020 elections by painting them as left-wing crazies who will destroy the American economy, murder newborn babies and turn a blind eye to bigotry against Jews. 

The unusually aggressive assault, which Republican officials and strategists outlined in interviews last week, is meant to strangle the new Democratic majority in its infancy. It was set in motion this month by President Trump, who used his State of the Union address to rail against “new calls to adopt socialism in our country” and mischaracterize legislation backed by Democrats in New York and Virginia as allowing “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.” 

Then last week, Republicans amped it up, seizing on a Twitter post by a freshman representative, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which even some Democrats condemned as anti-Semitic, and ridiculing the “Green New Deal,” an ambitious economic stimulus plan unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist. Suddenly even Jewish Democrats were abetting anti-Semitism and moderate Democrats in Republican districts were Trotskyites and Stalinists.

They can't handle it because the Republican attacks are all true! If the shoe fits, wear it! They moved to the far-left since Trump's election.

Now they're complaining, but the funny part of all of this is that they brought it all upon themselves!

The 2020 Election Campaign is gone to be fun!

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The Racist Ralph Northam Saga

Above, Gov. Ralph Northam's 1984 yearbook page.

First, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam admitted that he was one of those pictured in blackface or a Klansman in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page and apologized, but refuses to resign.

Then, he tried to weasel out by claiming that he was not one of those costumed figures and refuses to resign.

He even had the gall, during his last election, to accuse his GOP opponent of racism! It is especially cheeky of him since his opponent was a black Republican.

Gee, if this yearbook page were revealed during that campaign, he would have lost bigtime! The Republican Party in Virginia really dropped the ball by missing this! It was right under their noses!

It is impossible for people to really suspend disbelief in the case of Governor Ralph Northam. He's been aware of those images on his page for 35 years but is "not sure" that he is one of those in the racist photos? If I were so pictured in a high school or college yearbook, I'd sure as hell would remember! He must think that people are really that stupid! In the scheme of things, 1984 was not that long ago!

Admittedly, it is amusing to see the Democrats engage in their "self-cannibalism" of one of their own in demanding that Northam resign. Even Hillary Clinton chimed in and said this has gone on much "too long" and Northam should resign.

Yes, he should resign. His effectiveness as a governor has been destroyed.

Why There's An Abortion Uproar

VIRGINIA, January 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A Virginia House Delegate has proposed legislation that would allow abortions up until the moment of birth.   

In a shocking exchange during a subcommittee hearing about the bill, the bill’s chief proponent hesitantly admitted that the measure would permit aborting children even as a mother has begun dilating in preparation to give birth.     

Delegate Kathy Tran, a Democrat from Northern Virginia, was asked, “How late in the third trimester could a physician perform an abortion?”  

Tran replied, “through the third trimester.  The third trimester goes all the way up to forty weeks...I don't think we have a limit in the bill.” 

“Where it’s obvious a woman is about to give birth?” asked the chairman of the subcommittee, Delegate Todd Gilbert.   

Even when “she has physical signs that she is about to give birth?” asked Gilbert.  “She’s dilating?”  

“My bill would allow that, yes,” responded Tran.

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"When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physicians, more than one physician, by the way," Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said. "And it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that's non-viable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. So I think this was really blown out of proportion."

In other words, the baby would be killed or left to die. Infanticide.

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“This is morally repugnant,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in a statement to National Review. “In just a few years pro-abortion zealots went from ‘safe, legal, and rare’ to ‘keep the newborns comfortable while the doctor debates infanticide.’ I don’t care what party you’re from — if you can’t say that it’s wrong to leave babies to die after birth, get the hell out of public office.”