{"id":1317933,"date":"2020-01-27T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/shannon-column-richmond-proves-the-left-hates-you-and-your-guns\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T04:08:00","slug":"shannon-column-richmond-proves-the-left-hates-you-and-your-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/shannon-column-richmond-proves-the-left-hates-you-and-your-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon column: Richmond proves the left hates you and your guns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Virginia\u2019s 2nd Amendment rally was a huge disappointment for Big Nanny Mike Bloomberg, Gov. Ralph Northam and gun-grabbing busybodies across the nation. The event failed to produce the Reichstag Fire the left was secretly hoping would occur.<\/p>\n

Over 22,000 armed 2nd Amendment supporters gathered in the state capital with loaded firearms, and there wasn\u2019t even a single accidental discharge.<\/p>\n

Talk about your misfire.<\/p>\n

And the \u201carmed militia groups planning to storm the Capitol\u201d that forced Northam to declare a state of emergency? The feds arrested six losers before they could stock up on jerky, and one of those was a Canadian.<\/p>\n

Had there been violence, it would have provided the perfect pretext for the left to accelerate the 2nd Amendment rollback in Virginia. Simply owning a gun would be all the \u201cred flag\u201d authorities would need.<\/p>\n

Although entirely peaceful, the event was a failure. The very next day leftist legislators passed three 2nd Amendment violations the rally crowd specifically opposed.<\/p>\n

What the rally did accomplish was revealing how the left, its stenographers in the Opposition Media, its elected officials and its stooges in law enforcement view normal Americans who value a Constitutional right leftists don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n

That view alternates between utter contempt and hyperventilating fear.<\/p>\n

The left initially tried to discourage turnout by characterizing the gathering as a Klan rally without the carbon footprint. Those who were willing to risk being photographed near the only confirmed racist in town \u00ad\u2014 Gov. Northam famous for his blackface\/Klan robes photo and nickname \u201cCoonman\u201d in his college yearbook \u2014 received additional discouragement when warned they might be caught up in violence from armed militia groups that were going to \u201cstorm the capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n

Law enforcement stooges angling for an appointment piled on, too. Attendees who wanted to convene on the capitol grounds were going to be penned up like illegals behind an Obama fence. Participants were told to come early because there would only be one entrance to the concentration pen, and there would be a single bathroom inside for thousands. (The accepted rule of thumb for abortion \u201crights\u201d rallies and illegals\u2019 amnesty gatherings is 1 bathroom per 100.)<\/p>\n

Fortunately, 2nd Amendment supporters aren\u2019t as stupid as Gov. Coonman. Rather than be herded into Northam\u2019s Gitmo for Guns, thousands more armed supporters stood outside the fences where current law allows the open carry of weapons. (Look for this to change in the near future.)<\/p>\n

Storming militias, white supremacist groups, assorted bigots, law breakers, armed bullies and trigger-happy vigilantes all failed to put in an appearance. That didn\u2019t stop the left from using its favorite adjectives anyway.<\/p>\n

Northern VA Rep. Don Beyer tweeted, \u201c[Richmond] drew large numbers of white nationalists, militias and racist conspiracy theorists. \u2026 Neo\u2013Nazis tried to use the rally to launch violent attacks.\u201d All of which are lies.<\/p>\n

WoePost columnist Petula Dvorak, the chronicler of conventional wisdom, combined lies and contempt. \u201cY\u2019all, it smelled like fear out here in Virginia. \u2026 One group pushed through crowds in a conga line of camo and Carhartt. \u2026 \u2018Racist, white supremacists coming through,\u2019 one line leader bellowed, laughing, like everyone should know he really isn\u2019t racist.\u201d<\/p>\n

The writer who really captured the left\u2019s Zeitgeist was a creature named Will Bunch who writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He\u2019s also the most dangerous because he would deny your constitutional rights because he\u2019s afraid.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s his description of a gathering of law-abiding Americans exercising a right guaranteed by the Constitution: \u201cAmerica \u2014 although we may be too frightened to even admit it \u2014 just witnessed arguably the most successful use of terrorism on U.S. soil in nearly a generation, even if this time was non-lethal. \u2026 American citizens were deprived of [1st Amendment] rights on Monday \u2014 on Martin Luther King Day, of all days \u2014 by an intimidating bullying, armed mob. Do not dare call this \u2018peaceful.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Bunch was evidently too lazy to discover the Virginia Civil Defense League, which organized the rally, has been holding their event on that day for over a decade. Why? Because 2nd Amendment supporters have jobs and need a day off to travel to Richmond to contact their legislators.<\/p>\n

And Bunch is too fearful of an inanimate object and too drunk on his faux outrage to grasp that my exercise of a constitutional right does not threaten him.<\/p>\n

His fear is our problem.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no compromise with anti-gun extremists. They have an agenda and a long\u2013term plan. Each \u201ccompromise\u201d is another step toward neutering the 2nd Amendment.<\/p>\n

The language Northam, Beyer, Dvorak, Bloomberg and Bunch use is not how one refers to someone whose views they respect. Their language is not how one refers to someone whose constitutional rights they respect.<\/p>\n

Their language is how the authorities refer to people they intend to disarm and force into an outdoor enclosure with one bathroom per 6,000.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2020 Michael Shannon, distributed by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. 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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Virginia\u2019s 2nd Amendment rally was a huge disappointment for Big Nanny Mike Bloomberg, Gov. Ralph Northam and gun-grabbing busybodies across the nation. The event failed to produce the Reichstag Fire the left was secretly hoping would occur. Over 22,000 armed 2nd Amendment supporters gathered in the state capital with loaded firearms, and there wasn\u2019t even […]<\/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-1317933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 03:39:42","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\/1317933","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=1317933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}