Militias challenge gun laws in Virginia: "It's about shooting tyrants in the face"

[groundloop]

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Source: CBS News

On a cold winter morning last February, a woman named Samantha assembled her AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in the parking area next to Timbrook Public Library in Campbell County, Virginia. Her husband, Chad, had his AR-15 in hand and commented, "I would trust going into a gun fight right next to my wife. I've seen her shoot."

Samantha was one of a handful of women attending the call for volunteers to join a group calling itself the Campbell County Militia. Along with Chad and Samantha (who asked to have their last name withheld), over 200 people were at the event, most of them carrying arms.

Kurt Feigel, a gun rights activist and militia organizer, told the group, "We are here today to send a clear and collective message to any would-be-tyrants that would attempt to disarm us: We will not comply."

The formation of the Campbell County Militia is part of a larger movement organized by gun rights activists pushing back against gun laws Virginia enacted in 2020. They claim the new regulations, which include a "red flag" law and universal background checks for gun purchases, infringe on their Second Amendment right to bear arms. Virginia lawmakers shelved more controversial proposals that would have banned semi-automatic guns and high capacity magazines. Still, gun rights activists are bracing for a possible future ban.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-gun-laws-militia-armed-resistance/

[Efilroft Sul]

1. I can think of one tyrant they embraced instead of shooting in the face.

These particular gun rights activists support tyranny when they believe it to be on their side. It empowers them and puts them beyond the consequences they would face in a normal, healthy society. What's more, they wrongly see their selfishness, and the irresponsibility of others like them, as freedom. A Venn diagram of this group and anti-maskers would be a single circle.

[weissmam]

2. My honest opinion

These people need to either get a job or a life, and if there was even a hint of trouble these "want to be weekend soldiers" (laugh) would hide under the bed or just call the police and beg for help

[COL Mustard]

3. Unfortunately, Anyone Who Has A Different Point Of View

Is considered a tyrant by these goobers.

[safeinOhio]

4. Damn they just need to get

regulated and really be Constitutional.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Inbred dopes think they have the right to kill people.

It seems the punishments for threatening and hurting people with guns need to be more deterring.

[underpants]

6. A. No head shots shoot center mass B. This is just south of Lynchburg

to give you a geographical perspective
C. No one is ruining in to burn down Rustburg
D. These fools are inflamed by the Va Civil Defense League which is billing them out of the money they used to give to the NRA.

[tanyev]

7. They looking for tyrants at the library?

[onetexan]

25. LOL

[Mustellus]

8. Those unprincipled AR-15 owners have sold out my right...

.. to privately own a nuclear weapon. I need one for protection, for my family. And also to fight any AR-15 fetishists who want to take away my right to "keep and bear arms", mfrs. That's arms, not guns.

[StClone]

29. Arms must of meant cannons, too.

And if cannon, it must mean bomb, if bomb it must mean big bombs, if big bombs...I am sure the RSCOTUS (Republican SCOTUS) ruling today could split hairs and say no arms means guns only, and a weaponry of war AR-15 is legal but 50 Caliber are not because they KILL people rb.gy/7cpoin. This uncontrollable arms thing is totally irrational unless you have a legal degree (especially from Harvard which graduates a lot of highly compensated liars). Biden's mistake leads to this conclusion: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200630/fact-check-could-individuals-own-cannons-during-revolutionary-war

[samsingh]

9. stupid effing morons voted for the tyrant traitor trump

[turbinetree]

10. Chicken shit assholes trying to hide behind the militia BS, they wouldn't know a tyrant unless

it was on stage with a fucking red hat on its fucking head clapping and pointing and it said MAGA on it...........Fuck them............

[Oscarthegreat]

11. Cowards

There is one coward you could have shot in the face you dodo brains, his name is Donald Trump, but you chickened out, like we knew you would.

[Lonestarblue]

12. Every state has laws against unauthorized militias like this.

They need to enforce their laws and pass more with penalties for public threats to the life of any elected official.

[DBoon]

13. These people are exactly the ones who should NEVER own a gun

They believe they have the right to murder any government employee they don't like

[Cartaphelius]

14. Phew.. I was almost worried.

For a minute there I thought armed insurrection for threats
of taking guns from law abiding citizens had merit. However,
as had been demonstrated, gun owners have done absolutely
NOTHING about the current TYRANT. But they profess a
willingness to shoot liberals given the chance.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Pretty sure Jesus wouldn't like the "shooting in the face" stuff. Fine people on both sides my ass.

[bluestarone]

16. SAD part is RUMPS 70 million assholes

SUPPORT these types!!!

[relayerbob]

17. We seriously need to stop calling them "militias"

They are not. They are terrorists.

[pandr32]

26. Exactly

It is clear what a militia is (and what purpose militias have) in the Constitution, how it is to be organized, funded, and regulated.
Article 1: Section 8.

[hadEnuf]

18. These assholes who keep running around with guns threatening to shoot people in the face

might be advised that some may not wait for them to start shooting.

Just sayin'.

[matt819]

19. One man's tyrant. . .

Terrorist or freedom fighter?

Patriot or loyalist?

Tyrant or patriot?

These domestic terrorists are not a nuanced sort of people, any more than ISIS terrorists are nuanced. In their worlds, there is no room for doubt, there is no spectrum. If you're not with them, you're a tyrant and against them, and you must be destroyed. Fortunately, at the moment we still have laws, and these terrorists must be investigated, indicted, tried, and, if found guilty, imprisoned. Did you see the reports today that the Michigan terrorists planned to - literally - burn the place to the ground. These are madmen directed by their dear leader and stochastic terrorist.

[ffr]

20. They want to shoot tRump in the face?

Okay, but I think the SS will want to speak to you about that.

[Initech]

21. So when do we stop calling them "militias" and start calling them "terrorists"?

[dchill]

22. There is only one "militia" - it's called the US National Guard.

It's well-regulated. Plus, you don't even need to own your own gun!

Now that's what I call Constitutional!

[pandr32]

24. +1

[pandr32]

23. So a raging tyrant in the White House is just fine

...as long as he doesn't try to make open carry everywhere illegal or regulate their 'gun rights'.
I get it now. When they have always claimed mass gun ownership was to protect from tyranny what they really meant was tyranny is only when the first clause of the 2nd Amendment is enforced--the well regulated part. Only a tyrant would propose gun regulation.

[benld74]

27. Why no last names,,,,,chicken butts

[JudyM]

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