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Citing threats, Virginia Bans Weapons from Gun-Rights Rally. Good.

"Fearing a repeat of the deadly march by white nationalists in Charlottesville in 2017, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday declared a state of emergency and temporarily banned people from carrying guns and other weapons on the grounds of the state Capitol, where thousands of gun-rights activists are expected to rally next week against stricter gun-control laws.

"Northam said he made the call after hearing “credible intelligence” from law enforcement that armed militias and hate groups, some from outside Virginia, planned to disrupt the event. The threats of violence, picked up by state intelligence analysts on the internet and on dark web channels, included “conversations fueled by misinformation and conspiracy theories,” he said, and rhetoric similar to talk that preceded the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville in August 2017, at which white nationalists clashed with counterprotesters, one of whom was killed when a man drove into a crowd.

“They are not coming to peacefully protest. They are coming to cause intimidation and to cause harm,” Northam, a Democrat, said at a news conference.

Photos:

  1. White supremacist rally turned deadly, Charlottesville, Virginia rally. March 2017.

2 & 3. March for our Lives, March 2018.

  1. Women's March, January 2019.

[nbcnews.com]

LiterateHiker 9 Jan 15
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Wise move ,hope it does not get screwed up

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wonder how that will affect attendance.

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AND E. R. A. is finally ratified the same day shove it up the nose of misogynistic theocrat patriarchy

38 states yesterday ordered Congress to enforce E.R.A. yesterday by January 15th 2022

"appropriate legislation"

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I hope there are metal detectors everywhere around Richmond to catch concealed carry violators

@Larry58Feminist

Good idea.

At first glance I thought you said "mental detectors" and a vision popped into my head.

@BitFlipper like a magnet that sticks to a forehead reading : "religion in brain"

@LiterateHiker civil disobedience of Governor Northam order is "a threat with a deadly weapon" and gun nut idiots should be shot on sight if they sneak on to the Capitol grounds shot by the Virginia HWY PATROL OR NATIONAL GUARD

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Glenn Beck is promoting snipers in Richmond as if "2A" is gawd call to kill Democrats for their background check BILL

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Water guns only. These people are nuts, a rally with 100,000 people and their guns..what could go wrong?!

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Hopefully that keeps the body count low.

1of5 Level 8 Jan 15, 2020

That will match the average IQ......

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