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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Virginia, and elsewhere, gun humpers prepare to defy new laws
AMELIA COURTHOUSE, Va. Families, church groups, hunt clubs and neighbors began arriving two hours early, with hundreds spilling out of the little courthouse and down the hill to the street in the chilly night air.
They were here to demand that the Board of Supervisors declare Amelia County a Second Amendment sanctuary where officials will refuse to enforce any new restrictions on gun ownership.
A resistance movement is boiling up in Virginia, where Democrats rode a platform on gun control to historic victories in state elections earlier this month. The uprising is fueled by a deep cultural gulf between rural red areas that had long wielded power in Virginia and the urban and suburban communities that now dominate. Guns are the focus. Behind that, there is a sense that a way of life is being cast aside.
In the past two weeks, county governments from the central Piedmont to the Appalachian Southwest Charlotte, Campbell, Carroll, Appomattox, Patrick, Dinwiddie, Pittsylvania, Lee and Giles have approved resolutions that defy Richmond to come take their guns.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-virginia-and-elsewhere-gun-supporters-prepare-to-defy-new-laws/ar-BBXdIYd
Guess they're worried about this van showing up at their homes.
Skittles
(153,111 posts)that is why they have guns
dchill
(38,441 posts)... among the first to lose their guns. But I'm not gonna go get them!