Richmond Email Blasting Starts Today

[Nemo]

If you are from Virginia.

Nemo



https://mailchi.mp/c72841b322df/va-alertits-time-to-bombard-the-general-assemblys-email

The General Assembly's 2020 session started on Wednesday.  It seems the Democrats are in a bit of disarray, as they did not even set the rules for the General Assembly, which is traditionally done on the first day!  So we still don't know if there will be any changes to the rules on concealed handgun permit holders being able to carry in the General Assembly Building.  You will be advised as soon as we learn if there are to be any changes.

This year we need everyone to email their legislators once every day from Monday through Thursday each week until we say to stop.

Soon we will also have you calling your legislators every day with a message, too.  We want their phones to melt down.

We have a new system that makes all of that a snap and provides different messages automatically!


LET'S ROLL VCDL!  SPREAD THE WORD ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ETC., TOO

Click the link below to send a pre-written email that you can customize as you see fit.  The system will automatically figure out who your legislators are by your home address and will send the email to the correct people.  This literally will take less than a minute for the very first email and about 30 seconds or less for each of the others, as the system will automatically remember your name, address, phone number, etc.

The system rotates through several different pre-written messages, so your message should change each day.

We will be doing other email and phone-call campaigns as the weeks goes on.  This first campaign is to get the ball rolling quickly.  It does not mention bill numbers, only the type of bills that the legislators are expected to support or oppose.

We need to make sure our voices are heard and we need to stay in constant contact with our legislators, ESPECIALLY DEMOCRAT LEGISLATORS!

If you live in a Democrat district, it is particularly critical that you send an email to your legislators each day.  STARTING NOW!  Time is short.

https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/promo/1xP

(NOTE:  To send a new message each day, scroll down on the VCDL.org main page until you will see a box on the right side labeled "Take Action Now."  Clicking on "Next" button starts the same email procedure as clicking on the link above.)
 

[JohnyMac]

Good stuff!

[pkveazey]

I sent an email to my delegate today. I reminded her that she represents a rural area and both Reps and Dems have guns and it wouldn't be wise to piss them off. I also reminded her that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that any law that violates the Constitution is void and shall not be enforced. Then I reminded her that Title 18 Sect. 241 of the U.S. Code speaks to Conspiring to violate civil rights. Then I reminded her that during the French Revolution, the people didn't go after the Army or Police. They went after the people in charge. She's a Democrat so it'll go in one ear and out the other.

[Nemo]

And this is what we are dealing with. or just watch the video.  Its a bit hard to hear.

Nemo

https://t.co/7QSYvkV1Lj


https://recentlyheard.com/2020/01/09/virginia-dems-sue-2a-advocates-crazy-gun-nuts-young-kids-like-gun-grab-looms/

News
Virginia Dems Sue 2A advocates ‘ Crazy, ‘ ‘ Gun Nuts, ‘ ‘ Young Kids ‘ like Gun Grab Looms
Published 2 days ago
on January 9, 2020
By Rajesh Khanna

Two Fairfax County Democrats were caught in a hot microphone 2nd Amendment supporters as “crazy,” “gun nuts” and “just like kids” as the State Senate and the General Assembly came together in Richmond in anticipation of the upcoming legislature.

Senator Dave Marsden, and Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn, Speaker designate of the Virginia House of Delegates, were overheard in a live street debate as to whether or not it was worth their time to stand by and hear their constituents before they implemented sweeping arms control and confiscation bills.

Nationalfile report: As a conference broadcast on the live feed of the state legislature seemed to be delayed, Marsden can be heard asking Filler-Corn if she is going to participate in a later meeting, probably centered on the gun control and confiscation measures in New York City.

“Do you hang around at 10 a.m. gun nuts?”It is overheard for Marsden to ask Filler-Corn.

“Such people are insane!”she replied.

Marsden kept the conversation going as if that was not enough, telling Filler-Corn that the gun owners “simply like the kids,” as Filler-Corn asked him if he believed the constituents would “stay calm” or not. “Yeah, until we have answered them,” answered Marsden.

“We’re going to get through it!”

DAVE MARSDEN: You’re going to stick around at 10 a.m.”

EILEEN FILLER CORN: These are insane people.

DM: Like little children, yeah.

EFC: You think they’re going to remain calm?

DM: Yeah as long as we’re not answering them.

EFC: Yeah. Yeah.

    DAVE MARSDEN: Are you going to stick around for the 10 o’clock gun nuts?

    EILEEN FILLER CORN: These people are crazy.

    DM: Yeah just like little kids.

    EFC: Do you think they will stay calm?

    DM: Yeah as long as we don’t respond to them.

    EFC: Yeah.

    DM: We will get through this. pic.twitter.com/7QSYvkV1Lj

    — Virginia Political Memes (@VApoliticalmeme) January 6, 2020


DM: We’re going to get through. Pic.twitter.com/7QSYvkV1Lj — Virginia Political Memes (@VApoliticalmeme) January 6, 2020

Ironically enough, the first time that Senator Marsden was found ridiculous in weapons was not the Monday morning conference.

The Senator, in an email from moms-at-Arms.com, describes attending a forum for VCDL members, whom he describes as “childish and boorish.” Marsden further claims that he received threats of violence, after his telephone number has been passed on to constituents, which he describes as “indicative of mental health problems amongst many supporters of gun rights.”

“Our obsession with guns is what this country has a problem,” Marsden told supporters of the 2013 Moms Demand Action rally.

“These metal objects are totally obsessed with us,” said he to the crowd outside the Virginia State Capitol.

Over the years Marsden’s campaigns, like those of Eileen Filler-Corn, have been largely bankrolled by the group and both legislators featured prominently on the group’s webpage and campaign literature.

In 2019, the sister organization Everytown For Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action, spent a record $2.5 million on “Flip Virginia’s General Assembly.”

[JohnyMac]

I will not be going to the VA. Lobby Days but in the true tradition of bloviating may I suggest the following;

1) Do not bring a weapon although it would be 100% legal to do so, and most important,
2) Bring a camera that can take single pics as well as video. Record it all, the good, bad, and ugly to post to counter what the
    media will put out. Also, it will be good intel for future events, e.g. police /traffic flow, where are snipers holed up, what the
    MSM did, etc.

[grizz]

I will not be going to the VA. Lobby Days but in the true tradition of bloviating may I suggest the following;

1) Do not bring a weapon although it would be 100% legal to do so, and most important,
2) Bring a camera that can take single pics as well as video. Record it all, the good, bad, and ugly to post to counter what the
    media will put out. Also, it will be good intel for future events, e.g. police /traffic flow, where are snipers holed up, what the
    MSM did, etc.

 

[Nemo]

       

Nemo

[Erick]

On this subject.. know you are on the right side of history:

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/03/12/why-democrats-would-lose-the-second-civil-war-too-n2459833

It’s obvious that the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans. Taking their cue from the elites in Europe and Canada who are stripping dissenters of their free speech rights and religious freedoms, the leftist elite is moving to solidify its hold on power here with the eager assistance of tech companies and the moral support of the Fredocons who yearn to return to pseudo-relevance as the ruling class’s slobberingly loyal opposition. In California, the leftist government is practically firing on Fort Sumter. And nationally, these aspiring fascists are especially eager to disarm Normal Americans – doing so would be an object lesson in who’s the boss, as well as solving that frustrating problem of the Normals having the ability to resist.

Probably because I’ve spent time where they actually had a civil war, many people ask me – people whose names you know – whether I think this turmoil will all end in a Second Civil War. They are seriously concerned, and not without cause – the left’s hatred for Normal Americans and its dedication to totally stripping the people who are the backbone of this country of their ability to participate in their own governance is threatening to rip the country apart.

Do I think there will be a civil war? No, but there could be. This is the Age of Black Swans, and anything is possible – we could easily see the country split into red and blue. Civil war is unlikely, but never underestimate Democrat stupidity and hatred. The Schlichter family learned that lesson a century and half ago, the last time the Democrats decided to try to impose their hatred of basic human rights on the rest of the country, when an army of Democrats burned our family hometown.

Democrats are 0-1 in insurrections, and if they went for another round, they would be 0-2. It’s a matter of terrain, numbers, and morale.

Democrats, who think history began when Obama was elected, don’t understand the dangerous game they are playing when they talk about how they want to impose their brown shirt vision upon red America. The keyboard commandos of the left seek to hand wave away the massive strategic challenge of imposing control by force upon a well-armed, decentralized citizenry occupying the vast majority of the territory, so they babble about drones and tanks as counterinsurgency trump cards. But there are no trump cards in war. There are men, with rifles, standing on patches of dirt, killing the people trying to push them off. That’s the ugly reality of war. And multiply the usual brutality of war by ten when it’s a civil war.

There are two Civil War II scenarios, and the left is poorly positioned to prevail in either one. The first scenario is that the Democrats take power and violate the Constitution in order to use the apparatus of the federal government to suppress and oppress Normal Americans. In that scenario, red Americans are the insurgents. In the second scenario, which we can even now see the stirrings of in California’s campaign to nullify federal immigration law, it is the blue states that are the insurgents.

The Democrats lose both wars. Big time.

Let’s talk terrain and numbers. Remember the famous red v. blue voting map? There is a lot of red, and in the interior the few blue splotches are all cities like Las Vegas or Denver. That is a lot of territory for a counter-insurgent force to control, and this is critical. The red is where the food is grown, the oil pumped, and through which everything is transported. And that red space is filled with millions of American citizens with small arms, a fairly large percentage of whom have military training.

Remember what two untrained idiots did in Boston with a couple of pistols? They shut a city down. Now multiply that by several million, with better weapons and training.

Let’s look at the counter-insurgent forces in the Democrat oppression scenario should they attempt to misuse our law enforcement and military in an unconstitutional manner to take the rights of American citizens. There are a lot of civilian law enforcement officers, but the vast majority of the agencies are local – sheriffs, small town police departments. They will not be reliable allies in supporting unlawful oppression of their friends and neighbors. The major cities’ police departments are run by Democrat appointees, so the commands would be loyal. But the rank-and-file? A small percentage would be ideologically loyal. More would be loyal because that’s their paycheck – they could be swayed or intimidated to support the rebels. Others would be actively sympathetic to the insurgents. This is true of federal law enforcement agencies as well.

And the military? Well, wouldn’t the military just crush any resistance? Not so fast. The military would have the combat power to win any major engagement, but insurgents don’t get into major engagements with forces that have more combat power. They instead leverage their decentralized ability to strike at the counter-insurgents’ weak points to eliminate the government’s firepower advantage. In other words, hit and run, and no stand-up fights.

For example, how do a bunch of hunters in Wisconsin defeat a company of M1A2 Abrams tanks? They ambush the fuel and ammo trucks. Oh, and they wait until the gunner pops the hatch to take a leak and put a .30-06 round in his back from 300 meters. Then they disappear. What do the tanks do then? Go level the nearest town? Great. Now they just moved the needle in favor of the insurgents among the population. Pretty soon, they can’t be outside of their armored vehicles in public. Their forces are spending 90% of their efforts not on actual counter-insurgency operations but on force protection. Sure, they own their forward operating bases, and they own a few hundred meters around them wherever they happen to be standing at the moment, but the rest of the territory is bright red. As my recent novel illustrates, American guerillas with small arms are a deadly threat to the forces of a dictatorship.

But the military is so big it would overwhelm any rebels, right? Well, how big do you think the military is? And, more importantly, how many actual boots on the ground can it deploy? Let’s put it in terms of brigade combat teams, which total about 4,500 troops each. There are about 60 brigades in the Army, active and reserve, here and abroad, and let’s give the Marines another 10 brigades, for about 70 brigades. Sounds impressive. But that’s deceptive.

Let’s put aside a big consideration – the existence of red states that would provide for an insurgent government structure and possibly attract the loyalty of some National Guard and even federal brigades. For example, if President Hillary Clinton put down her chardonnay long enough to sign a ban on privately owned guns, it’s not unreasonable to expect the governor of Texas to reject federal authority – after all, California just taught us that this is totally cool. But in this case, look for several brigades located there to hoist the Lone Star flag.

So, now the blue states are facing unconventional and conventional forces.

Let’s ignore that problem and focus on a different challenge. Even a normal unit has about 10% non-deployable members. Now, if these troops were assigned to combat operations against other Americans, you would have significant additional losses through desertion. Many of the senior leaders would participate – the Obama generation – and there is a certain type of junior officer only too happy to curry favor by sucking up in defiance of their oath (which is to the Constitution, not to some leftist president). You can identify them because they usually have “strategist” in their Twitter bios. But a lot of key, capable officer and NCO leaders, and enlisted troops, would vanish. That is proper. It is a violation of their oath to unconstitutionally oppress fellow Americans; their duty would be to refuse such unlawful orders.

So, you have significantly understrength units going in. Now, how many of the troops in a brigade are actually even front line combat troops? About a third – the rest are support. So a brigade is really about 1500 riflemen tops before you count losses. Cut those in half for sleep, training, and refitting at any one time (which is very generous) and your brigade is really 750 troops on your best day with everyone showing up. Realistically, it’s 300.

That holds one mid-sized town. And there are hundreds of mid-sized towns. Plus there are millions of Normal Americans who would fight back. Nothing would move without their permission – a few guys shooting up big rigs along the interstate would shut down the entire trucking industry. Bottom line: there simply are not enough military forces to clear and hold red America.

What about drones and bombers? Both are useful. But the minute a bombing strike kills some red civilians the families of counter-insurgent drone operators and pilots will be knocking at the base gates to be let inside. Now you’ll need many of those brigades to protect the civilians you now need to protect from retribution.

Civil wars are harsh. That’s why you avoid them.

How about the blue insurgency scenario? That goes even worse for the Democrats. You have the federal government apparatus in the hands of red America, and the insurgents are the opposite of decentralized and armed. They are conveniently centered in gun-unfriendly blue cities. In other words, the blue civilian population is much less of a threat.

A red counter-insurgency avoids the problem of a decentralized insurgency and insecure logistical lines. In the case of California, whose secessionist antics are approaching the point where President Trump could legitimately employ his power to crush insurrections, the tactical problem is relatively simple. For example, San Francisco is a hotbed of treason, but the populace is largely unarmed and is trapped in a confined area. You put a brigade on securing the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, then put a brigade on the San Francisco Peninsula to cut off the I-280 and US-101 corridors. Next you go to the Crystal Springs Dam and cut off the water. Then you watch and wait as the tech hipsters run out of artisanal sushi rice and kombucha.

After about a week, they surrender. After all, you can’t eat and drink smugness. LA is just bigger in scope – more corridors to cut off, but in the end the population concentrations in large liberal urban areas that are their strength also make them extremely vulnerable to logistical pressure.

Then there’s another factor, an intangible but a crucial one. It’s commitment. The Democrat threat to peace is based on its policies designed to deprive Normal Americans of their right to speak freely, to worship freely, and to defend themselves and their rights with firearms. Make no mistake – millions of Normal Americans are willing to risk death to defend those rights. In fact, many swore to do so when they entered our military and law enforcement. But who is the leftist big talker willing to die to impose the fascist dream of censorship, religious oppression, and disarmament on Normal American citizens? Is the screeching SJW at Yale going to suit up in Kevlar? Is the Vox columnist going to grab a M4? Is the Hollywood poser going to switch her gyno-beanie for a helmet?

No. Hell, we just heard our liberal opponents explaining why a cop shouldn’t be expected to go fight a scumbag murdering kids because it’s scary. America might split apart, but it’s highly unlikely Team Kale n’ Vinyl would fight should their big talk finally push Normal America too far.

[Nemo]

Ongoing goings on among Dems in Richmond.

Nemo


https://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/democratic-majority-bans-guns-from-virginia-capitol-legislators-office-building/article_f06b50c3-f832-52d2-93db-f9bf1cca7658.html

Democratic majority bans guns from Virginia Capitol, legislators' office building
By Amy Friedenberger amy.friedenberger@roanoke.com 981-3356
19 hrs ago

    RICHMOND — State lawmakers approved a new gun policy that will prohibit the public as well as its own members from carrying firearms inside the Capitol and a nearby office building where General Assembly members work.

    “Our goal has got to be to keep everybody safe,” said House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, the chairwoman of the Joint Senate and House Rules Committee, which approved the policy Friday.

    The committee is composed of 11 Democrats and five Republicans, and it voted along party lines to approve the policy. The separate House Rules Committee — which has the same number of Republicans and Democrats — also backed the policy.

    The policy will cover the Capitol and the Pocahontas Building, which houses the lawmakers’ offices. The policy does not cover Capitol grounds. It will go into effect at 11:59 p.m. Friday.

    The previous policy allowed for gun owners with a concealed carry permit to carry firearms in those buildings.

    Under the new policy, the only people permitted to carry firearms in those buildings will be law enforcement, authorized security and military personnel who are on duty.

    Signs will be posted at entrances notifying people about the prohibition of guns. Law enforcement stationed at the entrances to the buildings will search and scan with metal detectors everyone besides lawmakers.

    It was the first fight over guns between lawmakers this session, which is expected to draw thousands of gun rights and gun control activists to the Capitol in the next couple weeks to lobby lawmakers.

    Republicans protested the policy that House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, said Democrats “dropped in front of us a few minutes ago” without any public notice.

    “You certainly have the votes to do it,” Sen. Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, said. “But this is not the way to do it. This is not the way to be transparent in Virginia.”

    Republicans tried to delay voting on the policy until a later date, but Democrats rejected them.

    Democrats said the policy is similar to gun bans at other state capitols, including Alabama and Arkansas. Filler-Corn said the policy change was overdue.

 Democrats said the policy recommendation came from Capitol Police.

Capitol Police Chief Col. Steve Pike told reporters that Democratic leadership approached him with a proposal to ban guns, and he provided input on how to implement it.

“This entire effort to put this on the Capitol Police is disgusting,” Gilbert said.

Gilbert said the current policy has been working.

“We’ve never had a problem with that,” he said.

Del. Mike Mullin, D-Newport News, said that was not true. He mentioned a 2017 episode in which Sen. John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, forgot a handgun in a General Assembly meeting room. Another senator found it. He also brought up the time in 2006 when then-Del. John Reid, R-Henrico, accidentally fired a gun he was unloading in his office. The bullet struck a bullet-resistant vest hanging on his office door.

It’s unknown how many lawmakers carry firearms at the Capitol.

Pike said legislators receive immunity from prosecution during the session under a law intended to ensure their duties are not disrupted.

Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, wouldn’t say whether she’ll continue to carry a gun. She carried one on her hip during the session last year, and she has been carrying one in her purse this year.

“I’m going to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Virginia Constitution so help me God,” she said.

Del. Terry Austin, R-Botetourt, said he at one point carried a firearm after someone approached him in the street and threatened him after work. He said legislators take up hot-button issues that lead to heightened emotions.

“I feel this is egregious. I feel this is an overreach,” Austin said. “All of us are certainly adult citizens. It’s the last thing I want to do is bring harm to anyone, but I don’t want to put myself in a situation for someone to do harm to me.”

[grizz]

Yep it will defiantly be an interesting day.