Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:25 years as a police officer, and I can absolutely state that the gun bans Northam is proposing (and unthinking, overly-emotional people support) will do NOTHING. In truth, so-called "assault rifles" are responsible for around 500 deaths per yearand those numbers have been consistent for decades. That FBI statistic ALSO includes accidents, self-defense shootings, and shootings by police in line-of-duty. It isn't about addressing violence (there are any number of more effective ways to do that), but rather a desire to eliminate what is a symbol of rugged individualism and traditional American values. It's also about control. We only have to the past to see what Leftist ("Blue") values lead to... simply read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn to see where they want to take us.
We all want a better, safer world for our children to grow up in. The difference is a choice between self-determination and slavery. I carry a gun for a living, and I am a gun owner. I choose freedom and the right to decide my own future. I am an American.
I hope your gun licenses are terminated. We would all be safer without so many guns being sold in Virginia and then trafficked up and down the East Coast.
Your "American" values have led to far too many deaths of innocent civilians, at a level that no other purportedly civilized country would tolerate. And most Virginians want to see an end to the carnage and lives lost to gun violence. If you are prepared to sacrifice your own to defend your inflated sense of personal liberty, that's a price worth paying if it saves the lives of innocent children.