From a Virginia Citizens Defense League’ email alert shared by John R..
>Wednesday night the Arlington Zoning Board voted UNANIMOUSLY to keep NOVA Armory’s Occupancy Permit in place!
We had a HUGE turnout – truly flooding the room to standing room only proportions earlier in the evening.
There was only ONE anti who spoke, almost the entire rest of the room was wearing VCDL stickers. She gave several lame excuses why NOVA Armory should have their permit revoked AND she didn’t want NOVA Armory to be able to reapply EVER! (I love it when the antis overreach. Makes my job so much easier. They simply can’t help themselves, bless their pointed little heads.)
That even shocked the Zoning Board.
The Board members asked some very key questions and that gave me my first hint that they viewed this as a frivolous case.
I was particularly pleased that we had so many women speakers! I love to see women at these things as it destroys the stereotype of gun owners being only men.
I am proud of our members and all of the great comments that were made. YOU GUYS AND GALS are what makes VCDL a force to be reckoned with! I thank you for showing up at these events, for representing gun owners so well, and for your sheer determination that gun rights WILL only be moving forward in the Commonwealth!
Here are a couple of photos of the hearing. The second photo shows gun owners raising their hands in support of NOVA Armory. Not all the room is shown in the photos by any means. ***Oh, and that photo was taken at 10:21 PM!*** – long after many people had left and gone home due to the late hour:
Dear Shannon, that is how you win, with real people and not some heavily paid consultants and washed out Hollywood people.
I went ahead and checked the Facebook Pages of the usual suspects. At posting time, only Moms Demand and CSGV had anything up so I went with them.
What did I find? Well the usual wishes for the unnatural death of George Zimmerman and some new stuff. Some people wanted George to be auctioned which coming from Liberal Idjits is surprising that they forgot that auction was the preferred method of obtaining slaves. I did not see anybody being triggered by that faux pas.
I also saw demands for confiscation of both the gun and the money it may get and the monies to be redistributed. One idiot (which I suspect is from Irish extraction) actually thinks her ancestors were better off staying home and starving. One was amazed that Self Defense is legal in Florida. but the best is CSGV’s admission that they will not turn down the rhetoric against Gun Owners.
Lovely bunch of caring people who respect the Constitution deeply., I tell ya.
There you go. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go with decontamination procedures.
“This is a piece of American History,” Zimmerman says in the post, which has not been verified by NBC News.The firearm is listed as a 9 mm Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol, and goes on sale Thursday morning with bidding starting at $5,000.
I’ve gotten word that apparently the wretched, conniving, rights-destroying, cowardly gun grabbers have cooked up a plan todestroy NoVA Armory in Arlington.
According to an email I got from the store, the County is holding a public hearing in an attempt to overturn the store’s certificate of occupancy.
Tonight.
Neither Dennis Pratte nor his landlord were notified of this public hearing.
And they weren’t notified by the Arlington County Board, but by a neighbor. I suppose these authoritarian swine were hoping Dennis and his landlord wouldn’t show up and defend themselves against these odious attacks.
After all, it’s much easier to bully your victim by stabbing them in the back. It’s much preferable to destroy your prey when they least expect it.
HB 1468 and SB 663 are taking Missouri closer to constitutional carry. As of now, permitless open carry is in effect there. If HB 1468 passes, then concealed permitless carry will be allowed.
Enter Everytown For Gun Control. They have released an ad against the law.
“A new bill would dismantle Missouri law and let people carry a hidden handgun in public without a permit or gun safety training; even some violent criminals and people with multiple DUI’s.”
Start with a true statement, then follow up with propaganda. Well I had no idea people with DUI’s were absolutely terrible people. Or that they should lose a right?
A station in St. Louis interviewed Mayor Francis Slay and Police Chief Sam Dotson. The mayor claimed that making it easier to get a gun and have a gun makes neighborhoods more dangerous. These bills just make concealed carry permitless. If anything, shouldn’t people that are afraid of guns feel better that more guns will be out of sight?
The police chief claimed that states with stronger gun control laws have less violence. To compare these stats you can find many, many sources. I chose to compare murder rates by state based off of FBI Uniform Crime Reports, and Guns and Ammo’s list of best states for gun owners. Missouri is number 9 on the list, with number 1 being the best state for gun owners. The murder rate per 100,000 people was 6.6 in 2014. Number 1 was Arizona, which has 4.7 murder rate, and number 2 was Vermont with 1.6.
Now sure, there are many different ways to compare states on how gun friendly they are. But don’t you think that if more gun friendly states were more violent then Vermont would be one of the worst states? Number 4 on the list was Utah, which had a 2.3 murder rate. So, not only does correlation not mean causation, these stats don’t even seem to correlate very well with each other.
There are many other factors involved so it is very misleading when a police chief states that these new laws would increase violence. It will be good to see Missouri take another step towards gun rights. Hopefully a couple officials hell bent on preventing it do not succeed in persuading the public based on their few words in those interviews.
I am also befuddled every time people think someone bent on breaking the law will suddenly care about getting a license to conceal carry before committing a crime.
Note that the second one includes all gun related deaths until the last graph, where suicides are filtered out. Also, the comparison is made to firearm deaths, not homicides. The article doesn’t make a direct comparison to the first link I posted as it meant to.
Carrying a loaded gun without a license is illegal in California even if the weapon is tucked inside a backpack, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a unanimous ruling Monday, the court allowed prosecutors to charge a man with violating California’s open-carry law by carrying a loaded revolver that police said they found in his backpack.
The state’s high court said the ruling on knives didn’t apply to Wade’s case. For one thing, Justice Ming Chin said in the 7-0 decision, the defendant in the knife case was leaning on the closed backpack, while Wade was carrying his pack. For another, the court in the 2013 case observed that knives can be used in “such lawful pursuits as fishing, hunting, camping, picknicking and the like,” a rationale that Chin said doesn’t apply to guns.
This is what happens when you vote idiots into government. I simply don’t have the words…
Nearly 3 1/2 years ago, I found myself on a path I did not choose, fighting a battle I did not start, advocating to change dangerous gun laws I never knew existed.My son, Jordan Davis, was shot and killed at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station on Nov. 23, 2012, in what has been deemed the nation’s “loud music case.” My son died senselessly, shot by a man empowered by lax gun policies — like SB 656, currently being considered in the Missouri Legislature — that encourage armed vigilantism by ordinary citizens. In that moment when Jordan was shot and killed, I became a member of the club that no one wants to join.
Thus begins the editorial by Lucy McBath. And she did not waste time to start misusing terms for her political benefit.
like SB 656, currently being considered in the Missouri Legislature — that encourage armed vigilantism by ordinary citizens.
VIGILANTE: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice.
I might have forgotten, but Michael Dunn never said he was a Vigilante nor any evidence was shown that he was a Vigilante or member of a vigilante organization. He was just an asshole. Oh Yes! We are making stuff up. Never mind.
And each time I learn about another legislature putting special interests ahead of public safety, each time I learn about another bill — like SB 656, which encourages individuals to shoot first and ask questions later.
I hate to break it to you ma’am, but every defensive shooting scenario is a shoot first, ask questions later. Wouldn’t you say that it is rather stupid to try to engage in chat with an attacker bent on harming you? That is unless you have this brutal urge to die, which most people do not.
Before Jordan’s murder, I didn’t know all that much about gun laws or about how lawmakers play petty politics and make quick decisions without considering the true impact of the bills they justify passing.
I see the problem with self-induced still remains.
It also includes a so-called “stand your ground” provision — a provision that upends traditional self-defense law and emboldens individuals to settle conflicts by reaching for their firearms, even when they can clearly and safely walk away from any danger.
These laws give everyday civilians more leeway to shoot than the U.S. military gives soldiers in a war zone.
I love when the mix pancakes with titanium bolts and come up with Unicorns. A military unit when attacked, responds with a heavy volume of automatic fire from many people, followed by artillery and/or air support…. Yes, we do that in civilian life. Hell, I have a Predator drone packed with Maverick missiles following me when I go out of the house.
These laws turn everyday conflicts into deadly shootouts by allowing people to shoot to kill — even when there is a clear and safe alternative.
It does not matter how much you repeat the lie, it is still a lie.
Researchers have found that “stand your ground” laws do not deter crime; in fact, states that enact bills like SB 656 see increases in homicide rates. Florida’s justifiable homicide rate tripled after it enacted a “stand your ground” law.
This is very interesting and I hope the readers caught it: Justifiable Homicide is a Crime. For Ms. McBath and the rest of the Gun Control Community, defending your life is a crime that must be punished.
And to make matters worse, “stand your ground” laws disproportionately affect communities of color: When white shooters kill black victims, the resulting homicides are 11 times more likely to be deemed justifiable homicides than when the shooter is black and the victim white. The last thing we need in Missouri is more violence and strife in our communities.
