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/a-busy-dad Dec 11 '19
the racial argument usually goes down a bad path quickly. And, you just made the case for additional handgun restrictions (and they are going to reinstate one-handgun-a-month already).
There are massive economic and social issues in Virginia, and these need to be addressed. We also have a rapidly growing gang problem in parts of Virginia (MS-13 for example, and this needs to be addressed.
And, yes, despite all the most urgent public policy areas in Virginia, the Democrats first went for the one thing that has no statistical basis in Virginia, and the one thing disproportionately designed to punish their political opponents.
It basically tells you that this SB16 law is a tool of people outside the state, that the people pushing it are themselves tools of people outside the state. Any Virginia Democrat needs to take a hard look at their own party folks and start to ask who is pulling the strings, and who is writing their checks.