Virginia's Second Amendment Attack
December 26, 2019
likely to push hard for strict gun control laws. Those laws will have zero impact on Virginia’s criminals and a heavy impact on Virginia’s law-abiding citizens who own, or intend to own, semi-automatic weapons for hunting or their protection. As a friend once explained to me, “I carry a gun because I can’t carry a cop.”
I am proud of my fellow Virginians’ response to the attack on their Second Amendment rights. Firearm owners in the state have joined with sheriffs to form Second Amendment sanctuary counties. That means local authorities will be required to protect Second Amendment rights in the face of any attempt by Virginia’s General Assembly to abrogate those rights. Eighty-six counties — over 90% — in the Virginia commonwealth have adopted Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions. Spotsylvania County’s board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution declaring that county police will not enforce state-level gun laws that violate Second Amendment rights.
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Sheriff Chad Cubbage said, “Be it be known that the Page Sheriff
hereby declares Page County, Virginia, as a ‘Second Amendment
Sanctuary,’ and that the Page County Sheriff hereby declares its intent
to oppose any infringement on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep
and bear arms.” Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins made a vow during a
board of supervisors meeting, where the board unanimously agreed to
declare the county a Second Amendment constitutional county, to
“properly screen and deputize thousands of our law-abiding citizens to
protect their constitutional right to own firearms.”In an attempt to appease citizen resistance, Northam suggested there would be a ban on only the sales of semi-automatic rifles. He would allow gun owners to keep their current AR-15s and similar rifles as long as they registered them. Otherwise, they must surrender the rifles. I’d urge Virginians not to fall for the registration trick. Knowing who owns what weapons is the first step to confiscation. Governor Northam further warned, “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 consequences, but I’ll cross that bridge if and when we get to it.” Some Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say that local police who do not enforce gun control laws should face prosecution and even threats of the use of the National Guard.
Virginians
must heed the words and capture the spirit of their two most
distinguished citizens, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who wrote
the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. These resolutions referred to the
federal government but are just as applicable to state governments in
principle. They said: “Resolved, That the several States composing the
United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited
submission to their General Government … and whensoever the General
Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative,
void, and of no force.”Too many Americans view the Second Amendment as granting Americans the right to own firearms to go hunting and for self-protection. But the framers of our Constitution had no such intent in mind. James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 46 wrote that the Constitution preserves “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” Thomas Jefferson wrote: “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” Similar quotations about our founders’ desire for Americans to be armed against the possible abuses of government can be found here.
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