“Former Democratic Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax killed his wife and then himself in a shocking murder-suicide early Thursday morning, according to the Fairfax County Police Department,” Fox News reports. “Justin Fairfax shot and killed – shot several times – and killed his wife, ran to a different part of the home and then killed himself with the same firearm he just got unseen,’ said police chief Kevin Davis during a press conference on Thursday morning.”
While some may say it’s too soon, it can’t go without mentioning that Fairfax was a big proponent of citizen disarmament edicts, including those ostensibly purporting to be enacted to prevent domestic violence. The Fox News story itself notes, “He supported Virginia’s first red flag preventing individuals who show signs of being a threat to themselves or others from purchasing, possessing or transporting any kind of firearm.”
“We have given commonsense tools like the ‘red flag’ law to law enforcement, the courts and our communities to help keep our families safe even as we ensure due process and protect Constitutional rights,” Fairfax lied on Twitter (it was still called that back then) in 2022, and no, “lie” is not too strong a word.
Nor is it unfair to point out that Fairfax had exhibited all kinds of signs—for years—that showed when he was pointing fingers at gun owners, there were three pointing back at himself.
Start with the murder-suicide in a house while his two teenage children were present. Then consider allegations he’d made earlier that his wife had attacked him that were proven to be false. Then go back to 2019 when two women came forward with allegations he had sexually assaulted them, with one attack happening in 2004, where an accuser claimed he forced her to perform oral sex.
Fairfax was a member of a party that proclaims #MeToo and #BelieveWomen, or as Hillary Clinton declared, “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.”
Fairfax’s response to his accuser?
‘F**k That B*tch’
That and he played the victim/race card:
Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax focused his answer on the 2019 calls for his resignation that came after two women accused him of sexual assault. Fairfax said the calls for him to step down demonstrated how “African American men are presumed guilty” and “given no due process.” “Everyone here on this stage called for my immediate resignation, including Terry McAuliffe,” Fairfax said. “He treated me like George Floyd. He treated me like Emmett Till. No due process. Immediately assumed my guilt.”
None of that has stopped Moms Demand Action from giving him their …um…full-throated support.
‘We have got to reduce gun violence in our communities and implement some commonsense gun control reforms while everyone enjoys a Second Amendment constitutional right to bear arms,” Fairfax asserted in 2013, confident that anyone swallowing that cognitively dissonant claim wouldn’t notice they were being had. “So, I believe we need to start by implementing universal background checks on gun purchases, and also by banning high-capacity magazines. We don’t want to lose another child or another family to senseless gun violence.”
It wasn’t “gun violence” that killed Fairfax and his wife, it was him. Since there are no reports at this writing that the gun he used was illegally owned, it’s fair to presume he went through a background check when he bought it. And he only needed a few rounds.
Time and again, it is shown that those who don’t trust us with guns and demand to control them really can’t trust and control themselves.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
