I once lived in Virginia. Many of my forefathers are from there in fact (a Great-Great-Great Grandfather named James Thompson Donaldson Sr. was born in Scott County, lived in Wythe Co VA and later Kentucky. My family migrated with Daniel Boone to Kentucky from Virginia.
I have roots there, and deep connection with the state of Virginia, even though I no longer live there and likely never will.
Here’s a little bit of history for perspective:
The first shots of the Civil War were fired in Virginia.
Williamsberg VA was the site of one of the first “gun confiscations” in the place soon to be know as “United States” when Governor Dunmore led the official British forces in Virginia at the start of the American Revolution. Local residents had appointed guards to watch the brick “magazine” in Williamsburg where the coloniy’s muskets and gunpowder were stored, but on the very windy night of April 20, 1775 they abandoned their posts. Dunmore took advantage of the opportunity. He had 20 sailors and marines from the schooner Magdalen land at Burwell’s Ferry, near the modern Kigsmill Resort. They walked four miles to Williamsburg, opened the locked gates of the magazine using keys provided by Lord Dunmore, and started to remove the half-barrels of gunpowder weighing 65 pounds each.
Local residents quickly discovered what was happening, but the sailors and marines had time to load 15 of the 18 half-barrels into a wagon and return safely to the Magdalen.
The governor claimed he was ensuring a slave insurrection could not use the gunpowder, but the colonists recognized he was disarming them. Patrick Henry led militia on an unauthorized march to the capital city; violence was avoided by a face-saving compromise when the royal Receiver General paid for the value of the gunpowder.
( Mary Miley Theobald, “The Monstrous Absurdity,” Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Summer 2006, https://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Summer06/plots.cfm; Norman Fuss, “Prelude To Rebellion: Dunmore’s Raid On The Williamsburg Magazine,” Journal of the American Revolution, April 2, 2015, https://allthingsliberty.com/2015/04/prelude-to-rebellion-dunmores-raid-on-the-williamsburg-magazine-april-21-1775(last checked June 4, 2019))
Yesterday, Monday 20 Jan 2020, a similar event occurred.
As State Legislator Amanda Chase says, this is not a “Virginia Problem”. This is an “America Problem”.
It’s NOT about guns. It’s about Rights. It’s about the fact the Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights. It wasn’t placed there to create an army, or give permission to the “national guard” to carry arms.
It clearly, VERY CLEARLY, states two important things. The people are the militia. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed.
Virginia and the USA are “Free States” and as such, our citizens are forever, “the Militia”. It’s not a few men and women who decide to put on a uniform and a “patch”, and it’s not “white people”, it’s not “racists”.
It is EVERYONE in this country who has those rights.
It is the GOVERNMENT WHO MAY NOT TAKE THEM AWAY.
The United States of America, her citizens, WILL NOT GIVE UP their rights. We keep those guns as a Symbol of Freedom.
To the rest of the world – we don’t care what you do, think, or say. This is Europe or Australia. This is sure as hell NOT Russia, or China and anyone that wants to emulate THOSE places are welcome to move out of this country to one more suitable for their tastes.
The Left in America is simply WRONG.
Stand down, stop trying to ban our guns.
We’re finished listening to you and your illogical reasoning.
American Patriot Reality Check 
heck they have bills proposing outlawing of the militia itself or training in militia subjects or even standing on the corner talking about guns or militia. they can go pound sand. I served thirty years to protect freedom, I am not about to give it away. come and take it, if you dare.
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Thanks for your input, RiverRider. It is this Patriot’s opinion that this is just more of the same bluster as usual from the Left, and they were testing the waters (ARE testing the waters) to see what kind of a rise they can get from us. They succeeded, and they got a Rise. America has spoken about this, and there’s no going back now.
The Left needs to put up, or shut up. And we need to meet them on their ground and stand up to them.
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