Virginia to Dance On the Blood Of the Slain, Governor Goes For New Gun Legislation

[Sniper 6,372]

Never let a crisis go to waste, in true Democrat fashion, a rush to pass NEW gun grab laws before the bodies even cool off. How many times have we seen this??????

After massacre, Virginia governor demands action on guns

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol this summer to take up a package of gun-control legislation, saying last week's mass shooting in Virginia Beach calls for "votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers."

Northam's bills include a ban on silencers and high-capacity magazines, as well as a broadening of the ability of local governments to prohibit guns in city buildings. The governor said he also wants mandatory, universal background checks before gun purchases; a limit of one handgun purchase per month; and a "red flag" law that would allow authorities to seize weapons from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.

Another top Republican, Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment, noted that the governor is pushing for legislation that already failed earlier this year.

"This governor has opted for political posturing over solutions," Norment said.

The governor has long advocated stricter gun control and gets an F grade from the NRA.

A top gun-rights advocate, Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, denounced the special session as "political theater" and said the answer is to make it easier for people to carry weapons.

"There's really nothing other than allowing people to protect themselves until the police get there that would have worked," he said.

Friday's shooting has been Northam's first major test since a scandal over a photo in his medical school yearbook nearly drove him from office four months ago. Northam denied he was in the picture of someone in blackface and another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apnewsbreak-virginia-gov-call-special-session-guns-130414860.html

[W2MC 1,699]

Governor Blackface, along with a Lt Gov rapist, backed-up by an Attorney General in shoe polish...people; THIS IS the Democrat Party!

[diamondd817 826]

I hope it passes. We really need to get this magazine capacity thing in front of the Supreme Court.

[BobA 1,235]

6 hours ago, Sniper said:

broadening of the ability of local governments to prohibit guns in city buildings.

Yup. This is the one that would have prevented the whole thing all right.