Virginia senators want to inflict their tyrannical gun strategy on entire country

It’s often said that atrocious ideas commencement successful California and marque their mode east. But these days, Virginia looks anxious to instrumentality that crown. 

The two U.S. senators from the Old Dominion aren’t just embracing weapon power from Richmond — they’re trying to export it nationwide. Democrat Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner person rolled retired the alleged "Virginia Plan," a bundle that would instrumentality 13 of the astir utmost weapon restrictions successful Virginia instrumentality and enforce them connected the full country. 

In pushing this agenda, Kaine points to the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre arsenic justification. But the facts archer a antithetic story. A broad investigation of wide shootings for more than 75 years demonstrates that 93% of wide nationalist shootings occur successful alleged Gun-Free Zones. That suggests the occupation is not too galore guns, but too galore places where lone the attacker is armed and victims are near defenseless. 

Nevertheless, Kaine and Warner privation to grow those precise zones — prohibiting firearms within 1,000 feet of astir hospitals and intelligence wellness facilities. But does anyone earnestly judge a motion volition halt a transgression intent connected murder? These attackers disregard specified restrictions each the time. And given that most of them take these disarmament zones, it’s hard to flight the decision that these policies don’t deter attacks — they invitation them.

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Democrat Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are pushing a Virginia gun-control plan. (Fox News)

Take a infirmary successful Darby, Penn. A deranged idiosyncratic entered, intent connected sidesplitting arsenic galore radical arsenic possible in 2014. By the logic of weapon power advocates, that onslaught should ne'er person happened. The shooter was prohibited from owning firearms — he couldn’t pass a inheritance check. Yet helium still obtained respective guns illegally.

And the infirmary was precisely what weapon power proponents assertion to want: a spot where no one but law enforcement is allowed to carry. But, successful practice, those restrictions did thing to halt him. And arsenic the saying goes, erstwhile seconds count, constabulary are minutes away. 

The gunman walked close past a "no guns allowed" motion and opened fire. What he didn’t expect was resistance. His intended target, Dr. Lee Silverman, was a lawful licence holder who carried despite the hospital’s policy. When the shooting began, Silverman took screen and returned fire, striking the attacker aggregate times and stopping the rampage. Tragically, 1 beingness was mislaid — but authorities credited him with preventing a overmuch larger massacre.

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That’s not mentation — that’s reality. And yet Virginia’s leaders are moving successful the other direction. Among the 13 provisions successful the Virginia Plan, the astir egregious whitethorn beryllium its prohibition connected commonly owned firearms — a restriction that Virginia itself is now preparing to enforce. 

The word "assault weapon" is 1 of the astir misleading labels successful this debate. But immoderate point utilized to termination could beryllium labeled an "assault weapon." FBI information from the past 5 years shows knives are utilized successful astir 1,500 homicides annually — implicit 3 times much than each rifles combined. AR-15s are lone a tiny subset of long guns. So wherefore is argumentation fixated connected 1 class that represents a tiny fraction of convulsive crime? 

These bans don’t conscionable miss the people — they travel astatine a existent cost. The firearms being targeted are among the astir fashionable successful the state for lawful purposes, including self-defense. Stripping law-abiding citizens of entree to effectual antiaircraft tools doesn’t disarm criminals — it lone tilts the equilibrium against those who travel the law. If the extremity is nationalist safety, we should absorption connected convulsive offenders, not restrict liable citizens. 

That’s something President Donald Trump has done well. Our state is enjoying unprecedented information — and it didn’t come from caller weapon restrictions. It came from a displacement successful priorities. In the first month of his 2nd administration, Trump implemented measures aimed at deporting violent gang members, ending catch-and-release policies for amerciable aliens and getting repetition offenders disconnected the streets. That’s what existent nationalist information looks like.

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Nevertheless, Kaine and Warner privation to grow those precise zones — prohibiting firearms within 1,000 feet of astir hospitals and intelligence wellness facilities. 

The results talk for themselves. We saw the largest single-year driblet successful murders ever recorded — without a azygous new federal gun power law. While immoderate politicians importune more gun restrictions are the answer, the information shows otherwise: enforce the law, incarcerate violent offenders and transgression falls. That should beryllium a wake-up telephone for anti-gun Democrats similar Kaine and Warner. But they’ll likely ignore it. 

In the end, this isn’t just a policy debate — it’s a existent combat implicit whether this federation volition respect the Constitution oregon crook the genu to tyranny. That’s why Gun Owners of America has been engaged successful tribunal battles crossed the country: challenging Illinois’ alleged battle weapons ban, pushing backmost against expanded Gun-Free Zones successful New York, and preparing a challenge to Virginia’s new ban connected commonly owned firearms.

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At its core, the Virginia Plan is astir exporting Virginia’s experimentation to the nation. But if it becomes a nationalist model, it volition besides conscionable a nationalist effect — successful the courts, successful the states and successful defence of the Second Amendment.