Comments on: Wilder is being shortsighted about guns

By: skippydog

skippydog — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:37:56 +0000

FYI….. VA concealed carry permit holders are exempt from the one-gun-a-month rule, and it only applies to handguns not rifles.

By: Robert Sandown

Robert Sandown — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:03:57 +0000

Like most mindless liberal closet tyrants, you’re more interested in what YOU WANT over what THE CONSTITUTION SAYS about guaranteeing Americans personal rights and freedoms – from mindless liberal closet tyrants, like you! Maybe we should ration YOUR First Amendment rights to just ONE WORD a month. That would slow the outflow of your poorly thought out reasonings.

By: John Kelley

John Kelley — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:55:29 +0000

As a Virginian, I would like to enter my personal feelings. One gun per month is too much. One gun per lifetime may be too much. I’m tired of reading where a crime has taken place in other parts of the country and the gun came from Virginia.

By: StevenCee

StevenCee — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:08:57 +0000

Has it ever occurred to those who speak of the “nanny government”, that while it is true many of our problems today are the result of the government’s passage of some pretty horrible legislation, it will take that same government to “fix” those same problems?

When we foolishly created Prohibition, it was only the government that could correct & reverse it’s wrongheaded move, and the same is true today. We’ve allowed corporations & big $$ special interest groups to make Congress their pawns, doing their bidding, and now it’s time to make Congress do OUR wishes! But government-caused ills often require government solutions, even it’s just to rescind some of it’s many disastrous decisions…

By: Jim in Houston

Jim in Houston — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:53:26 +0000

“The founding fathers wanted us to bear arms with muskets – not assault weapons.”

No, Louis, they wanted us to have personal arms consistent with military service…that means what you imagine to be “assault weapons”.

You do know that many of our Founding Fathers owned artillery, don’t you? You do know that multi-round weapons were familiar to the Founding Fathers, don’t you?

By: Louie Fahooty

Louie Fahooty — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:43:10 +0000

Stick to your principles Doug. The founding fathers wanted us to bear arms with muskets – not assault weapons.

By: jconservative

jconservative — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:35:45 +0000

Michael H. Smith “Truth is we have been allowing government to make too many of our decisions contently for far too long.”

I completely agree with this statement. This is where we have brought ourselves in the last several decades. Now people look around at the American political scene & come up with dozens of “problems” that they want the government to “fix”.

And the big government solution is just is not from Cynthia & Jay.
Have any of really looked at the list of “evils” Rush, Sean & Glenn?
Their solution is for the government to do the fixing.

Bottom line, if you look around the great American political arena & see you problems, whether real problems or imaginary problems, and you want the government to “fix” those problems, then you are a liberal.
And most voters have a list of problems they want the government to fix. That’s why we have a liberal country.

By: Michael H. Smith

Michael H. Smith — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:25:14 +0000

Since when have we been content to let the government decide whether we NEED something or not?

Now that is a loaded question but I’m willing to take a shot at it. (pun unintended)

Truth is we have been allowing government to make too many of our decisions contently for far too long.

Every time there is a difficulty in life that pains us the answer has been to reach for the big government solution: Ah, just spray a little “Nanny State” on it, that’ll fix it.

Word has it, Comrades Cynthia and Jay swear by it.

By: StevenCee

StevenCee — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:26:24 +0000

I’m actually quite surprised that Cynthia would ask someone to back off of principle, simply to provide a little more political oomph to someone’s candidacy. If the people don’t want to repeal the law, then it won’t matter where the new governor stands, & since both candidates support repeal, it’s moot anyway.

As for the law, or any law regulating the number of guns bought in a month, the facts do show that many of the guns used in crimes are in fact, often purchased legally (like here in Georgia), then sold to residents of states where it’s difficult to do so. But maybe one a month is a bit too stringent, if it were raised to 2,3, or even 4, it would still put a damper on large numbers of guns bought at one time….

By: Bruce Jackson

Bruce Jackson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:18:41 +0000

Both candidates have expressed a willingness to repeal one-gun-a-month. If you really are on the side of the 2A people you need to join the Virginia Citizens Defense League (google VCDL) as they are the greatest grass roots organization in the nation!