Columnist and George Mason economics Professor Walter E. Williams is warning Virginia residents about Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) gun registry plan.
Northam has been pushing an all-out ban on AR-15s and similar rifles for some time, but he recently changed the scope of the ban in the face of the growing Second Amendment Sanctuary movement.
On December 10, 2019, Breitbart News reported that Northam changed his position from supporting an across-the-board ban on possession of such weapons to supporting a ban only in a situation where a person refuses to register the firearm with the government. The Virginia Mercury quoted Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky saying, “The governor’s assault weapons ban will include a grandfather clause for individuals who already own assault weapons, with the requirement they register their weapons before the end of a designated grace period.”
On December 27, 2019, Walter E. Williams used a Fox News op-ed to warn Virginians “not to fall for the registration trick.” He said, “Knowing who owns what weapons is the first step to confiscation.”
Scott Bessent Shuts Down Democratic Rep During Hearing: ‘It Would Be Detrimental to the Interests of the US to Answer That Question’
Blue state governor vows ‘resistance’ as Trump admin targets sanctuary policies
Stefanik grills university president over disciplinary action on campus antisemitism
WATCH LIVE: Trump swears in David Perdue as ambassador to China
Former USPS Employee Folds in Court, Admits Part in Scheme to Steal and Cast Ballots
USA Fencing offers to ban transgender competitors
Cardinals enter Sistine Chapel for papal conclave under total digital lockdown
New travel rules, same confusion: ‘REAL ID’ raises questions, concerns among college-aged travelers
Epstein Doc Bombshell: US Senator Confirms the Worst, Says They’re Gone
Trump Offers to Help Obama with Presidential Library ‘Disaster’
Trump pushes to reopen Alcatraz, but Pelosi and Newsom dismiss it as a ‘distraction’
United Airlines planes in San Francisco clip wings
Cardinals celebrate final Mass before conclave to elect 267th pope begins
Cardinals gather for conclave to choose new pope and more top headlines
Gov. DeSantis Announces Ban on Fluoride Additives in Public Water
Williams added:
James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 46 wrote that the Constitution preserves “the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote: “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
Too many Americans believe the Second Amendment grants Americans the right to own firearms only to go hunting and for self-protection. The framers of our Constitution had no such intent in mind.
Eighty-six of Virginia’s 95 counties have declared themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries in which future gun controls passed by Northam and his Democrat colleagues will not be enforced.
Story cited here.
