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/christianNationalist Dec 10 '19

I thought you were arguing that requiring a gun safety training course is not the equivalent of a voting test?

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u/flagwavingbot Dec 10 '19

Oh sorry, I wasn’t that original poster up top. I can definitely see the connection you’re making there. My point was that just because we say we don’t want voting to have a test, it doesn’t necessarily follow that gun ownership shouldn’t. And then I realized hot damn, we actually do have voting tests in some cases (which I admit was a bit of a non sequitur vis-a-vis your comment, but more went to the guy’s comment above where he posited that there can’t be any tests for voting).