Everyone out to Richmond on Monday!

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  1. Talon

    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I can't remember its name, but one of the coffee shops near the Capitol was so busy it almost ran out of supplies.

    The only change I see coming out of the protest yesterday is rooted in the 2A sanctuary campaign that brought a lot of people off of the political sidelines in Virginia. I don't expect we'll really know the impact until the 2021 state elections.
     
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    The most important question to ask is; when will governor Northam be up for re-election?
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No, but Rodney Northum, not related will be!

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    Talon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Virginia bars governors from serving consecutive terms, so the earliest Coonman can run for re-election is in 2025.

    However, after his Klucker glamor shot surfaced I think it's safe to say he can forget about running for governor ever again.
     
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    NMNeil Well-Known Member

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    So you may lose this battle against the Democrats taking away your firearms, but the war is far from over and needs to be fought via the ballot box.
     
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    Who are we kidding. No one is concerned about pro second amendment guys. The Police were there in case leftist thugs such as ANTIFA showed up. Looking up from down here in Florida, I'm proud of all the pro second amendment gun owners who went and handled themselves so well. Great showing of maturity, civility, patriotism, and plain old civic involvement.
     
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    US Conservative Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Apparently the left holds itself to a separate and lower standard.
     
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    Martin Luther King was a supporter of gun rights.

    The Doctor would have supported the gun rights protest. Your post is just nonsensical uninformed babbling.

    MLK and His Guns
    "Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
    A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding his home and family. He had good reason to fear that the Klan in Alabama was targeting him for assassination.


    William Worthy, a journalist who covered the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, reported that once, during a visit to King’s parsonage, he went to sit down on an armchair in the living room and, to his surprise, almost sat on a loaded gun. Glenn Smiley, an adviser to King, described King’s home as “an arsenal.”"


    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mlk-and-his-guns_b_810132
     
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    never said he would not, just said a weird way to support MLK day, but hey, good to see all those people out in support of MLK
     
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  10. US Conservative

    US Conservative Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They are saying this was the largest gathering of armed citizens in US history.
     
  11. Rush_is_Right

    Rush_is_Right Well-Known Member

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    It was also Lobby Day!
     
  12. Doug1943

    Doug1943 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I know a fair amount about AntiFa -- I'll be writing a review of Mark Bray's book on them -- he's an academic apologist for them . I try to keep up with them, insofar as one can via the web. I'm doing the same, in retrospect, for the genuine terrorists of the 1970s -- I was around then, but had no direct contact with them.

    If you call 'milkshakes' and rocks and the occasional rock, 'arms', then you're right. And then the American Legion and various other conservatives engaged in an armed attack on the Communist Party at Peekskill. (Look 'Peekskill' up on Wiki -- far more violent than anything AntiFa has come up with so far.)

    If sticks and rocks are 'arms', they can take away our guns and issue us with sticks and rocks.
    But Anti-Fa have not -- yet -- engaged in setting bombs, as the Weathermen and allied groups did in the 70s.
    They haven't assassinated people with guns -- as a number of far right groups did in the 80s and 90s, and as the occasional 'Army of God' assassin does now.
    They had one member, a loony, who might have killed someone with a rifle, but didn't. And some of their members praised him. I have no doubt that if some of their members did kill some of us, most of the rest of them would praise the killers. I also suspect that if they moved to systematic assassinations and bombings, most of them wouldn'thave the courage to join in.

    But we have to precise in our use of words. AntiFa today does not engage in lethal armed violence.
    They're a rabble, the street equivalent of the spoiled brat college students at elite colleges who try to shut down conservative meetings by chanting, and who
    occasionally physically assault conservative speakers.

    And this is a good place to bring up this issue: to name them, legally, as a 'terrorist group', and then to try to prosecute them ... would be a very bad move, tactically. They would become the 'Chicago 7' of our day.

    We also need to know how to react to AntiFa, so as to beat them in the court of public opinion. I think the Proud Boy tactic of marching into Portland is not a good one.

    Rather, our side should, on the 4th of July, hold a pro-American, patriotic rally in Portland. It should feature lots of American flags, veterans -- especially women, Latino and Black veterans --- as speakers. The Democratic Party should be invited to send speakers and to co-sponsor it. It should also feature an 'Officer Down' speaker and be very pro-police.

    Since most Anti-Fa's hate America -- "No Border, No Wall, No USA at All!"" is their chant -- they would be faced with a dilemma: let the rally go forward in peace ... or attack it. Either way they lose.

    And there is a reason that the Left today doesn't feel moved to go over to 'armed struggle': they're winning without it.
     
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  13. Doug1943

    Doug1943 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It probably won't make someone who was adamantly anti-gun, pro-gun.
    But it will definitely make an impression on a large chunk of middle America.
    The media desperately wanted us to look like neo-Nazis, muttering lunatics, Klansmen ... and they got a kick in the face.
    It was just nice ordinary Americans.
    Now the militia movement needs to go on a publicity drive, while public interest is high. Every militia unit should hold a public meeting, ideally with a speaker who attended the rally, in defence of the Second Amendment. Each unit should set a target this year of doubling its membership.
     
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    From the pictures I have seen this is like a comic-con for mediocre, overweight, white males who never served a single day uniform, and now cosplay with guns and camo gear that makes those of us who did serve cringe and laugh at them.
     
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    20 years after 9/11 Im guessing there is more former military there than you know.

    The commies that showed up were thankfully quickly removed. You know how commies get.
     
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    Doug1943 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Those of us who did serve" are about two to one conservative leaning, according to polls. And I've come across many many vets in the militia movement. i think the word you're looking for is "deplorables" ... lower-class people who can't design a website. Your social inferiors, in other words.

    But there is a point here that conservatives should take on board. Military service should be a reflex for our side. Especially if we can get a government that will begin to withdraw from being the policemen of the world, trying to bring Lesbian Outreach Centers to Kandahar.

    So young conservatives in college should join ROTC, and anyone else who is under 36 who has not done their military service yet should enlist with the National Guard (Army or Air). It should start being considered the norm, with mild (at first) social pressure on males who have not served. Dr Johnson said that "Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea". That was true once, and we need to make it the case again (for our side).

    https://www.nationalguard.com/
    https://www.goarmy.com/rotc.html

    It's not a moral issue. As America begins its descent, under Progressive rule -- and don't kid yourself, it's coming -- having the closest possible ties with the military will be very important.

    And everyone, of either sex and any age, should find a local militia unit and join. You can find one here: MyMilita.com
     
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    I totally support MLK day. So does Black Guns Matter, who was at the protest.

     
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    If they haven't killed anyone, it's luck more than anything else.
     
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    oh please, Duke ;). Your desire to be like John Wayne is pathetic.
    I said I feared there would be violence.
     
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    just because that's what you would do if you had a gun doesn't mean that's what gun owners do.

    Don't measure the entirety of humanity by your sort comings.
    Stupidly.

    You should be ashamed for your bigotry.
     
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    You feared no such thing.
     
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    Yeah it wasn't like it was an occupy or antifa protest.
     
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    His forum hyperbole is worn
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    Fight fire with fire. Suggest anybody who wants to stop Americans from exercising their rights is a white supremacist.

    Because when people are denied rights it includes non white people.
     
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    Unlike you I wouldn't be proud to be like the Duke. He was an open an unapologetic racist.
    Speaking of stupidity.
     

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