{"id":1317637,"date":"2020-01-11T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/shannon-column-virginia-a-preview-of-what-gun-grabbers-would-do-nationally\/"},"modified":"2020-01-11T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T06:08:00","slug":"shannon-column-virginia-a-preview-of-what-gun-grabbers-would-do-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/shannon-column-virginia-a-preview-of-what-gun-grabbers-would-do-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon column: Virginia a preview of what gun-grabbers would do nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A surprising development is occurring among staunch members of the left at the Washington Post and elsewhere. These woke scolds have come out strongly against sanctuary cities and counties. Before it was either silence or tacit approval for government sheltering a population that was \u201cin the shadows,\u201d which makes sense when you remember they\u2019re running from the law.<\/p>\n

Sanctuary jurisdictions serve to protect a criminal class estimated to be 22 million strong at the expense of law-abiding citizens.<\/p>\n

And what an expense it is.<\/p>\n

These serial law breakers are responsible for the deaths of approximately 3,000 American citizens every year, according to columnist Ann Coulter. Over the course of an average lifetime, the total cost to taxpayers for supporting people who have no right to be in our country is estimated by Center for Immigration Studies to be $746.3 billion.<\/p>\n

And even those figures don\u2019t include the cost to individual citizens of identity theft, property crime, lowered property values, assault, gang activity, crowded schools, packed emergency rooms and \u2018Press One for English.\u2019<\/p>\n

The WoePost referred to sanctuary movement as \u201cdisturbing,\u201d \u201creactionary,\u201d \u201cugly,\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d Sanctuaries were even compared to \u201cslavery\u201d which makes perfect sense when you recall the idea behind sanctuaries is to protect cheap, controllable labor for unscrupulous employers.<\/p>\n

WoePost columnist Petula Dvorak wrote \u201csanctuary cities\u201d are populated by \u201cextremists.\u201d Virginia Delegate David Toscano compared sanctuaries to the Massive Resistance backlash that opposed public school integration.<\/p>\n

Only I need to clarify. The WoePost wasn\u2019t condemning sanctuaries that protect illegal aliens from richly deserved punishment. It was condemning the new 2nd Amendment sanctuaries protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens from undeserved collective punishment.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the extra-legal selective law enforcement the left uses to protect people who have no right to be here is out of bounds for citizens to use to protect rights granted them at the founding of the nation.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not the only contrast. Illegal alien sanctuaries are imposed on an electorate from the top down to protect a pool of future leftist voters. The 2nd Amendment sanctuary movement is a grassroots effort that petitioned elected officials to protect constitutional rights and the officials responded.<\/p>\n

Even the WoePost admits the \u201cmovement has driven throngs of people to show up at boards of supervisor\u2019s meetings. Their numbers are remarkable \u2013 400, 800, even 2,000 in attendance.\u201d As this is written over 110 Virginia counties, cities and towns have passed some form of 2nd Amendment sanctuary resolution that says that jurisdiction will not enforce or impose unconstitutional gun ownership restrictions on its residents.<\/p>\n

Gun Owners of America Senior Vice President Erich Pratt has one of the best explanations of the 2nd Amendment sanctuary movement, \u201cSanctuary resolutions are important because they provide the best way for local officials to inform the newly elected General Assembly and the governor that if they rush forward to create new felony crimes to jail law-abiding Virginians \u2013 just for exercising their most fundamental and natural right of self-defense \u2013 then they cannot expect localities to enforce such unjust laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gun owners are right to be concerned. This isn\u2019t the anodyne \u201ccommon sense gun regulation\u201d that is so innocent during the campaign. It\u2019s always different after they win.<\/p>\n

Richmond is now controlled by the angry left. Gov. Ralph \u2018Coonman\u2019 Northam has discussed requiring all owners of so-called \u2018assault rifles\u2019 to register their weapons with the state. And he requested an increase in the prison budget to cover the \u201cincrease in the operating cost of adult correctional facilities resulting from the enactment\u201d of gun grabbing laws.<\/p>\n

When gun confiscation speculation was running rampant in Richmond, U.S. Rep. Don McEachin suggested the governor call out the National Guard to confiscate weapons.<\/p>\n

Del. Dan Helmer introduced a bill that would ban indoor shooting ranges in buildings with more than 50 employees. Ranges that survived would be required to keep an Orwellian log of each shooter\u2019s name, address and phone number.<\/p>\n

Presumably so the state police could call ahead and have the owner pack his weapons for faster confiscation.<\/p>\n

Del. Mark Levine\u2019s bill would confiscate any magazine that held more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Those who didn\u2019t turn their property over would be felons.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the beginning.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing \u201ccommon sense\u201d about these precursors to confiscation, which is the end game for the left. These despicable people subvert the law to protect their protected class of illegal aliens and future Democrats while using the law as a club to punish gun owners who vote Republican.<\/p>\n

David French hit the nail on the head when he described the left\u2019s gun fixation, \u201cAll too often gun-control proposals operate as a form of collective punishment on the law-abiding while serving as barely a speed bump in the path of the criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Shannon is a commentator and public relations consultant, and is the author of \u201cA Conservative Christian\u2019s Guidebook for Living in Secular Times.\u201d He can be reached at mandate.mmpr@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A surprising development is occurring among staunch members of the left at the Washington Post and elsewhere. These woke scolds have come out strongly against sanctuary cities and counties. Before it was either silence or tacit approval for government sheltering a population that was \u201cin the shadows,\u201d which makes sense when you remember they\u2019re running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 05:43:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}