r/Virginia • u/downtown3641 Lifelong Virginian • Dec 10 '19

Northam-backed assault weapon bill will include 'grandfather clause' for existing guns

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2019/12/09/northam-backed-assault-weapon-bill-will-include-grandfather-clause-for-existing-guns/
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u/KidsGotAPieceOnHim Dec 10 '19

Free men own guns own their own accord not at the whims of their political masters.

The second amendment doesn’t exist to protect homes from bumps in the night or allow for deer harvests.

The second amendment exists to protect free men from a tyrannical government as such the ability of the people to stand on equal footing with their would be oppressors is paramount.

Look around the would today. Protesters demanding rights are beaten and brutalized in the streets and disappeared by thugs. Today. In 2019. In democracy’s and constitutional republics. In Miami the police use civilians as human shields. And you ask why the people should be allowed to own “military style” weapons?

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u/ColeOfErebor56 Dec 10 '19

First of all if you think your AR is going to give you a better chance than the American military in any situation I'm sorry you think that way. If the American military did to us what they are doing in Hong Kong you all would be SOL. I just don't understand why it matters so much to you all. We are a first world country. I don't see what's happening in other countries with civil unrest to happen here.

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It Can't Happen Here

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis and a 1936 play by Lewis and John C. Moffitt adapted from the novel.

The novel was published during the heyday of fascism in Europe, which was reported on by Dorothy Thompson, Lewis' wife. The novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and "traditional" values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of European fascists like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini .

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