Virginia has been trending blue for a long time, as both the D.C. suburbs of “NoVa” and the state’s minority population have grown. Add in the suburb-alienating Trumpist drift of the GOP — both nationally and in the southern part of the state — and sprinkle on the judicial demise of some heavy gerrymandering
, and you wind up with Democrats in control of the entire state government. Less than a year after a wave of Democratic scandals that was so humiliating it has its own Wikipedia page, in fact.
A bill known as HB 2, for example, requires background checks on private gun sales. This is a fairly moderate idea, and one I have some sympathy for myself, but it must be executed meticulously. The drafters of a universal-background-check law must be careful not to make criminals of people who loan guns to each other during hunting trips but hunt in different parts of the woods, for example.
Story continuesWhich of course the bill would do. There’s no grandfather clause. It would make it illegal to “possess” the banned items, including some entirely normal handguns and hunting guns. Once again, we have a measure that goes beyond public opinion and indeed might need to be dialed back before Virginia Democrats can unite behind it. The one thing it achieves is to insult the rights and beliefs of gun owners.
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