GUNS IN RICHMOND

          Drones were banned, streets and roads were closed, thousands of yards of chain link fencing was erected, dozens of metal detectors were brought in.  The State Police, the Capitol Police, the Richmond Police and the FBI combined to create what was described as a “huge police presence.”  A State of Emergency was declared by Governor Blackface.  Even guns were banned in the Capitol area (at a gun rally!).  The authorities found a few “neo-nazis” a couple hundred miles away, so they were arrested, of course.

          And then, on January 20, a day Virginia traditionally designates as a day for lobbying and protest at the state capitol, 20,000 or so supporters of the 2^nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution showed up because they did not want the legislature to pass some gun laws that would instantly turn many of them into felons.  They carried signs.  They expressed their opinions.

          And nothing happened.

          Nothing bad, anyway.  Nobody got shot.  Nobody got arrested.  There were not even any fistfights apparently, because if there had been, one of the hundreds of journalists who had very little to do would have filmed it for us.

          The idea that legal gun-owners would create a sea of mayhem in the streets of Richmond was absurd.  It was always absurd, no matter how often the Governor and his various subordinates howled about how dangerous the rally was or how worried he was that WWIII would erupt.  They wasted millions of dollars on this “security” show, though there will be no rush, of course, to tell the people of Virginia exactly how much was spent on helicopters and armored vehicles and rooftop snipers and all the other trappings of the police state that leftists like Northam invariably set up whenever they come to power.

          Whenever I go to a gun show, it always occurs to me at some point that I am probably in the safest place in Pennsylvania at that moment.  You are surrounded by weaponry and millions of rounds of ammunition, and people who know how to use it, but they are decent folks.  They are law-abiding citizens.  Many of them, like many of the people in Richmond today, are concealed-carry permit holders, and the crime rate of concealed-carry holders is quite a bit lower than the crime rate of policemen.  The crime rate of carry-permit holders is comparable to the crime rate of nuns, and the crime rate of nuns is quite low.  It’s one of the things they’re known for.

          The danger we face as Americans is not from gun-owners or carry-permit holders or supporters of the U.S. Constitution.  The danger we face comes from those, like Governor Northam, whose ideology makes them so blind to reality and so out of touch with the values held by at least half their fellow citizens, that they are simply unfit to hold important public office.

          [Update.  It is now reported that one person was arrested at the rally for wearing a mask, which suggests she was antifa, or a counter-protester of some kind.]

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