“Virginia adopted an amendment to the Commonwealth’s constitution … allowing the state legislature to redraw the congressional map and swing up to four House of Representatives seats to Democrats — if the courts don’t step in to block the plan after the voters have spoken,” Democracy Docket reported Wednesday. “Republicans launched multiple legal challenges to the referendum that remain pending in state courts. In a pair of cases, the Supreme Court of Virginia decided to allow the referendum to go forward while the legal challenges were pending, while litigation in a third has only recently begun.”
“The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state’s current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election,” Fox News reported when announcing election results. “It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.”
If the Constitutionality of the measure is upheld, the power of Democrats, already engaging in a feeding frenzy of for citizen disarmament edicts, will be increased exponentially in the Old Dominion, with far-reaching effects on the Republic as a whole. And it didn’t have to be this way.
Per NBC News, the amendment passed 51.5% to 48.5% with under 3.1 million votes cast. Roughly (97.22% of expected votes were in at time of publication), 1.6 million voted Democrat and 1.5 million voted Republican.
Per the Independent Voter Project, there are over 1.8 million registered Republicans in Virginia, and over 1million “Independents.”. And per Ammo.com’s “Gun Ownership by State,” 44.6% of households in Virginia own a gun.
Clearly, had more Republicans and gun owners been engaged and voted, the results – and the resulting dangers they pose in terms of “gun laws,” would have been very different. Then again, had a Get Out the Vote effort, sufficient to the task, been seriously mounted instead of ignored, the election that put Abigail Spanberger in power could also have been turned around, and the referendum would never have been advanced. This makes it fair to ask NRA “reform” board members if extraordinary efforts (outside of standard campaign mailers and social media posts) were made and resources expended to mobilize the membership, including bringing in grassroots coordinators from more secure and politically quieter “red” states to assist and lead. (Association management has proven in the past it can temporarily house “essential employees” when it serves their interests.)
Ultimately, though, the decision to vote or not, and claiming our rights and fulfilling our duties as fully enfranchised members of the Republic, is up to us and can’t be blamed on others for not encouraging us strongly enough. “Profiles in apathy” is and has been a real and pervasive threat, as has been citizenship malpractice.
It’s fair to wonder how many who won’t even do the bare minimum now, when things are easy, are prepared to face real and extended risks and losses should gun prohibitionist majorities become politically undefeatable, and that brings to mind two other threats most recognized “gun rights influencers” are unwilling to recognizes”
The first is new gun owners who, along with sporting purposes über alles apparatchik “Fudds,” vote and promote Democrats.
The other is something very few gun commentators with a national voice have been willing to speak out on, with furious backlash from louder “gun establishment” voices trying to torpedo the discussion when it escapes the echo chamber: The immigration threat.
As Constitutional attorney (and two-times consecutive “Top Voice of the Second Amendment” Gundie Award winner Mark W. Smith of Four Boxes Diner cautions us in a new v ideo titled “ BREAKING NEWS! DYSTOPIAN VIRGINIA REFERENDUM IS 2A NIGHTMARE!”:
“There is no more important issue to our Second Amendment movement than dealing with foreign born immigrants that will vote for the Democrats and a vote for the Democrats every single time is a vote for more gun control.”
He even quotes a paragraph I’ve been citing for years from a 2019 article in The New York Times, “How Voters Turned Virginia from Deep Red to Solid Blue”:
“Guns, that is the most pressing issue for me,” said Vijay Katkuri, 38, a software engineer from southern India, explaining why he voted for a Democratic challenger in Tuesday’s elections… Mr. Katkuri’s vote — the first of his life — helped flip a longtime Republican State Senate district and deliver the Virginia statehouse to the Democratic Party for the first time in a generation… Once the heart of the confederacy, Virginia is now the land of Indian grocery stores, Korean churches and Diwali festivals… One in 10 people eligible to vote in the state were born outside the United States, up from one in 28 in 1990.
All of these—the results of the past Virginia election, the results of the redistricting referendum, the results of the upcoming primaries and midterm elections, and the willingness of membership gun groups to acknowledge the existential threat posed by cultural terraforming, have been or will be directly influenced by individual gun owner choices and actions. As will what comes after, if the choice is to do nothing.
Kaine-Warner Gun Control Bill Would Take Virginia Restrictions Nationwide
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.
