January 18, 2020
NEVER A BAD TIME TO CRUSH CONFEDERATES:
Why Are Militia Groups Descending on Virginia? (DAVID J. TOSCANO, JAN 18, 2020, Slate)
Some proponents have even resurrected words like nullification and interposition, terms first used extensively by Southern secessionists prior to the Civil War and more recently during the "massive resistance" to federal laws requiring desegregation in the 1960s. [...]Despite the rhetoric about gun confiscation and governmental overreach, most of the measures proposed by Democrats are widely supported by Virginians. A December poll indicated that universal background checks, one of the first measures that will be enacted, are supported by 86 percent of Virginia voters. A bill that would allow courts to temporarily prevent the dangerously mentally ill from having access to firearms, the so-called "red flag" law, enjoys the support of 73 percent of Virginians, and similar measures have been passed in seventeen states and D.C., including Florida, Nevada, New York, and Colorado.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 18, 2020 4:50 PM
