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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPro 2A "activists" arrive at the Richmond protest... armed to the teeth
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Guessing they're 2A activists given no uniforms yet they're open-carrying?
Nonetheless, I thought weapons were banned??
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)obamanut2012
(26,087 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Bettie
(16,117 posts)in Charlottesville lost their jobs after being identified.
Plus, it is WAY easier to be an asshole to people if you are anonymous.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Yesterday on social media people were being urged to bring them anyway, with memes like: "What are they gonna do about it? Take them away from us?"
Some video posted on Twitter shows protestors being screened for weapons at certain locations.
underpants
(182,849 posts)On the surrounding streets the normal rules apply. Virginia is open carry and you can have a concealed permit.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)If there is blood shed I will blame t-rump and the NRA plus the Republican party.
I hope nothing happens tho.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Amishman
(5,559 posts)The NRAs gathering was last week and could barely get a few hundred. This is out together by new / different gunner groups.
The NRA is crumbling and their stalwarts are quickly rallying under other banners
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)The gun ban is on capitol grounds only (I wasn't sure if it was city-wide) :
RICHMOND As thousands of gun rights advocates and other armed groups prepare to rally outside the Capitol next week, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday hes declaring a temporary state of emergency to ban all weapons from Capitol Square.
Hate, intimidation and violence have no place here, Northam said at a news conference Wednesday.
Monday Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the traditional day people come to lobby legislators at the Capitol. The issue that has dominated this session is gun control, which Democrats have promised to enact this year.
underpants
(182,849 posts)riversedge
(70,265 posts)What is a Kevlar helmet?
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underpants
(182,849 posts)Mostly a sign of a fresh new recruit
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,101 posts)How many of those Cosplayers actually served in the military?
Quackers
(2,256 posts)Those are $2.47 shipped. Cant expect everyone to get one.
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EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)....that real Americans can't do.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)underpants
(182,849 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)underpants
(182,849 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)"too bad they overruled ben franklin - this guy could be dressed as the turkey he is"
Takket
(21,600 posts)making the streets look like a war zone filled with armed paramilitary thugs probably isn't the best way
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)calimary
(81,383 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,752 posts)They didn't consider the optics. They make anti-fa look like a girl scout troop.
underpants
(182,849 posts)A friend of mine who hunts was buying ammo about a month ago. That night was the big county board meeting where the Sanctuary vote was going to be held. The gun store owner was saying to another customer, Look dont take any long gun. That really doesnt help the cause at all
Baitball Blogger
(46,752 posts)They look like domestic terrorists.
2naSalit
(86,693 posts)the domestic terrorists that they are.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)They don't seem to realize that the contant threats of violence they make are a form of terrorism.
llmart
(15,545 posts)Someone please out some of these idiots. The ones with the masks should be made to take them off.
riversedge
(70,265 posts)Cynical Sales Guy
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Small dick parade. #IStandWithVirgina
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Cowards, all of them. This is pathetic. Sign them all up to go fight in the Middle East and watch how brave they are then.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)you can by PER MONTH...and that is a problem for these people?
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)maryellen99
(3,789 posts)oops.
AJT
(5,240 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,466 posts)kentuck
(111,106 posts)Don't think otherwise.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)ecstatic
(32,720 posts)What could possibly go wrong at a gathering of trump-loving nutcases, angry and armed to the teeth, in freezing weather?
I salute anyone who is willing to counterprotest under those circumstances. Please be safe, or better yet, sit this one out! Let them turn on each other.
Kali
(55,016 posts)as someone said above, small dick parade.
showing outrage and fear to dipshits like this just encourages them.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)bluestarone
(17,002 posts)Fucking look out!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)That's why these 2A idiots needed to leave their AR-15's at home.
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)fueling the fire, by saying Democrats want to take away their guns. He never stops with his hate and division.
Liberal In Texas
(13,564 posts)morons looking for any excuse to use their guns would be a mess.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,925 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I am sure that some urban cops share that sentiment, but the smarts one, I hope, prefer not being outgunned while trying to do their jobs.
kentuck
(111,106 posts)Don't try to get rid of their Leader.
icymist
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So gun control is Jim Crow now?
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They don't want a well regulated militia. They want unregulated guns.
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Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, she said.
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This range owner brought a whole ass Barrett 50. cal, amazing
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)WTF is wrong with these morans??
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and I know the Republican party don't care who gets harmed or killed.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)And I'm being pretty generous with that estimate. They were saying 100,000 might be there. LOL.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Its a felony.
Why are they getting away with that shit?
underpants
(182,849 posts)Downtown feels 10 degrees colder.
I think the cops aren't going to worry about that. If they start arresting people it could trigger these assholes. Plus they're 105% white so.....
C_U_L8R
(45,012 posts)Boy do these gun-derps look ridiculous
Politicub
(12,165 posts)The photo you posted is one of those rare pictures that you can smell just by looking at it.
RobertDevereaux
(1,858 posts). . . the translation into English of "Sic semper tyrannis," which John Wilkes Booth shouted after murdering Lincoln.
underpants
(182,849 posts)Whether the flag is showing nipple or not.
RobertDevereaux
(1,858 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)Why are those gun humpers gathering today?
underpants
(182,849 posts)They've already passed one gun a month, universal background checks, & (this is interesting) allowing localities to ban guns at regular events and festival type stuff.
This is a long session for the GA. 6 weeks. Halfway through is "cross over day", bills passed in each house go over to the other for them to go through hearings and vote on. None of the measures above are actually completed yet.
One more fun Commonwealth fact - Governors can't be re-elected so Northam gets to sign a budget (biennial) this year and then one more right before he leaves office. An incoming Gov. has to operate under someone else's budget for half the term.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,384 posts)underpants
(182,849 posts)First legislative body in the US.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)"Gun-rights rallies have been an annual part of Lobby Day at the state Capitol. This years rally is much larger than usual because the legislatures new Democratic majority is seeking gun-control measures that have sparked concern among gun-rights advocates."
https://www.richmond.com/news/local/live-updates-thousands-gather-around-capitol-square-in-richmond-ahead/article_af43b67e-def2-5ee1-92db-709d0965655f.html
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)That they chose MLK day to do this. I will not take part in giving them the spotlight today. Not interested. Fck them. Today is not about them. That's all I have to say on this topic.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)underpants
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Jovi looks like a hipster reboot Elvis impersonator
I know the exact block of Main they are on. I'm glad that one guy is keeping up his protein levels.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Drexler's movement received attention and support from some influential figures. Supporter Dietrich Eckart, a well-to-do journalist, brought military figure Felix Graf von Bothmer, a prominent supporter of the concept of "national socialism", to address the movement. Later in 1918, Karl Harrer (a journalist and member of the Thule Society) convinced Drexler and several others to form the Politischer Arbeiterzirkel (Political Workers' Circle). The members met periodically for discussions with themes of nationalism and racism directed against the Jews. In December 1918, Drexler decided that a new political party should be formed, based on the political principles that he endorsed, by combining his branch of the Workers' Committee for a good Peace with the Political Workers' Circle.
On 5 January 1919, Drexler created a new political party and proposed it should be named the "German Socialist Workers' Party", but Harrer objected to the term "socialist"; so the term was removed and the party was named the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP). To ease concerns among potential middle-class supporters, Drexler made clear that unlike Marxists the party supported the middle-class and that its socialist policy was meant to give social welfare to German citizens deemed part of the Aryan race. They became one of many völkisch movements that existed in Germany. Like other völkisch groups, the DAP advocated the belief that through profit-sharing instead of socialisation Germany should become a unified "people's community" (Volksgemeinschaft) rather than a society divided along class and party lines. This ideology was explicitly antisemitic. As early as 1920, the party was raising money by selling a tobacco called Anti-Semit.
Iggo
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aikoaiko
(34,177 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)cracking me up and reaffirming my opinions of gun-strokers.
Skittles
(153,170 posts)fuck them all, fucking COWARDS
calimary
(81,383 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)with voter registration lists, pulling people out of their homes, and shooting them in the street.
Hyperbole? No. It's later than you think. We're in real danger.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)lists.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)to head way down there - brrr!
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)walking around, some with guns, most with cell phones. Not nearly as dramatic as it was "threatened" to be. Interviews with some of the protesters were interesting too. See/hear why they were there and all.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Link to tweet
Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) @IwriteOK
The Margaritaville Light Infantry are well represented.
12:12 PM - Jan 20, 2020
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Who brought an actual guillotine to this thing?!
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But calm. Nothing remotely near tense for most of the morning.#Richmond2ARally
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)The top of it says 'the penalty for treason is death'. Wow!
snort
(2,334 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Say goodbye to 'gun girl' and the asshole who brought a 50 caliber Barrett to lug around!
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Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)be in his pants with him? Otherwise he would simply take them an wash them, no foul and no other stuff.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)She is literally known for being a RW asshat who had an unfortunate "accident" once, and Twitter never lets her forget.
Search Twitter for "kaitlin bennett poopy pants" and you'll see what I mean (and why her comment in that video is most curious, given her reputation)
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)That has happened to me twice, once while playing golf at a public course. The second time was at home after I eat some ice cream made from grass-fed cow milk. I had a female colleague suffer a similar fate.
She may be an asshole, but shitting one's pants is humiliating for anyone.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They are standing in line behind a barricade. Do those assholes realize that if they were dealing with a government that wanted to take their guns, they would all be corpses behind those barricades?