U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- For victorious Virginia gun owners, “payback” is the dish best enjoyed on the morning after handing anti-gun Democrats a devastating defeat, providing critical votes to elect Republican Glenn Youngkin as their next governor, along with Winsome Sears as lieutenant governor and Jason Miyares as the next attorney general.
It was a race most pundits expected former Gov. Terry McAuliffe to win.
Topping that off, Republicans have apparently narrowly recaptured the House of Delegates in Richmond, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. This could open the door to a rollback of extremist gun control policies adopted by Democrats and anti-gun Gov. Ralph Northam in 2020. More than 20,000 Second Amendment activists descended on the capitol in January of last year, but Democrats—having captured the majority in November 2019 due to a dismal voter turnout that year—essentially ignored them and pushed through the changes.
Sears is the first Black woman to win a statewide race. A Marine Corps veteran, Sears previously served in the House of Delegates. Born in Jamaica, she emigrated to the U.S. as a child and grew up in The Bronx, New York. Sears famously posed for a photograph while holding a semi-automatic modern sporting rifle.
As noted by the National Review, Tuesday’s election brought a crushing halt to eight years of Democratic rule in the governor’s office.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms released a statement observing, “Virginians made their choices loud and clear Tuesday, and we are optimistic the incoming governor will exercise good judgment and common sense where gun ban zealotry and social prejudice against gun owners have guided the agenda for the past four years.”
“We are hopeful the new leadership will quickly reverse the extremist policies adopted by the previous radical Democrat administration,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “If Republicans capture the Assembly, as it appears they have, they should move immediately in January to repeal Northam’s one-handgun-per-month law, and restore state preemption for gun law uniformity across the Commonwealth.”
Gottlieb said the election outcome “gave every gun owner in America a reason to be excited about the upcoming 2022 midterm elections.”
The huge voter turnout also signals a return of citizen interest in elections, which was woefully absent in 2019 when only about 40 percent of Virginia’s registered voters turned out, allowing Democrats to win. Any impression gun owners might be apathetic ended Tuesday with big voter turnouts reported across the state, including districts thought to be dominated by Democrats.
Prior to the election, anti-gun Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris suggested the Virginia election would amount to a referendum on the Biden administration, which holds office just across the Potomac River from the Old Dominion. In the aftermath, Democrats and liberal pundits seem to blame Virginia parents, suggesting racism played a role in their voting, choosing to deflect public attention that it was such a referendum after all.
But Democrats awakened Commonwealth gun owners when they pushed through a one-handgun-per-month purchasing limit, so-called “universal background checks,” and gutted state preemption allowing local governments to adopt their own gun control restrictions. Republicans now have an opportunity to reverse those actions.
The election outcome also demonstrates how appearances by party leaders, including Biden, Harris and Barack Obama was not a winning strategy for McAuliffe. A majority of Virginians just sent a message to all of them that their policies no longer pass the smell test, even in such close proximity to the nation’s capital.
It also signaled that running a campaign against Donald Trump is a scheme that has outlived its usefulness. Terry McAuliffe continually tried to portray the Virginia campaign as opposing Trump policies, and he more frequently mentioned the former president than he did Youngkin as his actual opponent until the final days of the campaign.
There is one other thing. Youngkin is a Virginia native, McAuliffe is not, and he also had a record from his previous stint as governor. A majority of Virginians have memories about those days four years ago. They evidently did not want a rerun, and they were particularly miffed when McAuliffe contended they had no business involving themselves in what local school districts teach their children. It is bad enough to infuriate Second Amendment voters, but when you combine that with a swipe at parents, who also happen to be taxpayers and voters, you are leading with the chin, as McAuliffe found out.
Scores of Virginia communities and counties, beginning in early spring 2020, became “Second Amendment sanctuaries” but McAuliffe and other Democrats chose to ignore the symbolic message those communities were sending. Virginia gun owners decided they would not sit out another election, and when parents became involved, it became a losing combination for McAuliffe, Attorney General Mark Herring and their Democrat cronies.
Meanwhile, the governor’s race in New Jersey remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli locked in a neck-and-neck race to the finish. Ciattarelli early Wednesday had a razor-thin lead over Murphy, and if he wins, it would be a double-whammy to Democrats nationwide and the Biden administration for allowing then party to stampede too far to the left. It would also bolster predictions that the 2022 midterm elections could be a repeat of 1994, when Republicans took over Capitol Hill and essentially made Bill Clinton a lame duck for the next six years, even though he was re-elected in 1996. Congress remained under GOP control as George W. Bush moved into the White House in 2001.
Depending upon the vote outcome in New Jersey, there will almost certainly be a recount.
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Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.
Yes we gun owners must get out and vote in EVERY election, electing people true to our foundations and values!
“A majority of Virginians just sent a message to all of them that their policies no longer pass the smell test, even in such close proximity to the nation’s capital.” You mean the aroma smells like a DUNG PILE! THAT IS A H U M O N G U S PILE!
As a rule, once you lose rights, they are gone. I pray the VCDL and Virginians will roll back these unconstitutional laws that were made by the previous administration. I expect to see the fence around the state capitol scrapped as well. Thank you fellow Virginians for showing up at the polls.
Shame on Virginians for letting things get as far out of hand as they did. Let it be a lesson to all of us sitting out is not an option.
BINGO! Charlie moves to the head of the class.No matter what else is said or written about the election, the lesson here is to NOT sit idly by as someone else votes when you didn’t.
I’ve lost count of the times people have told me they don’t vote because their vote doesn’t count.
Charlie, thanks so much for reading AmmoLand and sharing your thoughts. This thought put it right over the centerfield fence!
I’m not sure what purpose having back & forth political tug-o-war proves when anybody with a double digit IQ knows the voting system – legal system is rigged. MSM is equally culpable & accountable for the paradigm shift & Sea Change of deceptions imo. What frustrates those who are critical thinkers is the layers of ignorance that other’s cannot apparently fathom inability for people to accept the status quo as acceptable or even any semblance as a new normal. Anytime you have ignorant immigrants who are dependent on the Big Gov’s entitlement programs – Job Vocational re-training programs/schools, re-education programs/schools… Read more »
More free education for veterans!!!
More business loans for veterans!!!
Mandate that those capitalist pigs train veterans so they can tranistion from being warfighters to manufacturers/retailers who sell products at the “right” price.
You could join up and become a veteran.
There you go – the Superman defense !
Brilliant !
Thank you for your service !
You seem patriotic, and have never complained of health problems.
Can you flush that out a little?
Flush it out, no. However, you seem to be jealous of veterans for some reason. If you become a veteran, you would have whatever you are envious of.
Not envious. Up until yesterday, I thought all the pro military rhetoric was funny and many of those who spouted it ignored all of the examples of veterans who are totalitarians (and who enforce totalitarian laws). While there is nothing wrong with being in the military, the non-stop self glorification in the face all the unconstitional acts being committed by a certain percentage of veterans was just incongrous with their stated support of the Constitution. Comments from those who declared that anyone who didn’t join the military was a coward wasn’t really the best PR move. You seem to look… Read more »
That subset of veterans you harp on also has been known to pick on other veterans. In fact I suspect they consider other veterans to be more dangerous than the general public and thus more ‘worthy’ of higher scrutiny or pre-emotive violence. After all – all vets are combat and weapons experts. Whether they were in delta or a cook on a stateside airbase, they all get the same combat training and experience- right?!! (\sarc – since I’m so rarely understood) Of course that means that as an enthusiast and collector, I must be dangerous – despite my weak shooting… Read more »
Finnky, You say, “harp on.” Neanderthal75 refers to me beating a dead horse. Every day people post about: Politicians Judges Federal law enforcement agencies I haven’t heard you or Neanderthal75 make comments regarding the frequency of those posts. My comments regarding veterans are related to those who become legislators and push never-ending gun control or who join law enforcement and enforce never-ending gun control laws. Those comments are not well-received because so many of the posters here are veterans and a small percentage of them take offense. I have no problem at all with veterans who don’t do those things.… Read more »
Some messages bear repeating. Just think how some commercial seem to repeat every few minutes. They can be annoying as heck, yet somehow are effective.
Harp was perhaps the wrong word as it carries so many negative implications.
i imagine there are times you get to feeling it is a bit repetitive. I’d bet you’d love for others to stand up and deliver your message – which so badly needs to be heard.
Lots of messages (good ones) are repeated here all time. It’s just this message that some people don’t want repeated.
Do you believe there is any point at which enforcers should refuse to obey an order to enforce a law?
See?
Good morning, guys.
Hope you have a good day enjoying the great outdoors.
It is much like ‘teaching to the test’. Not a problem if the test is designed right. I oppose cops acting overly independent- deciding for themselves what the law is. In fact that is at the root of much of our troubles now. On the other hand, if a law or an order are wrong – then every cop has moral imperative to refuse to enforce or follow. If an order is unlawful, choice should be clear and there should be serious consequences for following the order. If a law is wrong, LEO has harder choices to make. If enforcing… Read more »
Jsn just turns into an infantile individual lacking and discernment of any nuance, on issues pertaining to cops, government, and certainly the military AKA veterans!
He continues to flagellate a deceased equine every chance he gets!
Pay the poor fellow no heed, he and the Russian twit are intellectually incapable of differentiating between bad cops and good cops: they say they do, but as you’ve been noting in there most recent comments, they use a brush as wide as the Grand Canyon for both cops and veterans!
Hope you’re having a great day!
Whatever you say, Agent.
Arizona says 50% of cops are bad.
You said 10 to 15% of cops are bad.
Bubba (who worked with the LAPD) said less than 1% of cops are bad.
Do you think people might have a difference of opinion of what consitutes “bad?”
If voters who vote for politicians who vote for gun control bills are bad; and
Politicians who vote for gun conrol bills are bad;
What about the people who have been enforcing tens of thousands of gun control laws for decades?
A poster recently said Chicago cops are patriots – do you believe that?
Lookit all them downvotes, Ofie. So much for the truce.
Tsk Tsk Tsk Supe! Don’t give up on yourself. You can do this. 2 downvotes on JS is no reason for you to give up on the truce, Give it a chance, join the brotherhood, engage with people in an honest sincere way and Voila! You will gain folks respect.
Try it yourself, hypocrite. I don’t need or want your respect, Agent.
Sorry Superman. I really didn’t think you had it in you.
Too bad…..makes no difference to me. I actually don’t care if ;you can’t get along in life. As always, it is only up to you…. God Bless You.
“Well, that didn’t pan out.”
It still can. The decision to be civil toward our neighbors is a decision that we personally make daily, hourly, and at each encounter. People lower their standards on the internet because no one can reach through the wires and grab them by the stacking swivel. Insults reflect on the writer and just cause a lot of extra, worthless … typing.
Ok off to feed animals.
That’s true. Hypocrisy (whether by person or crew member) makes it even worse. Profanity has been used by many – some worse than Russian8R. Attempting to reprimand someone for returning a small jab after ignoring the outbursts of profanity from a crew member and then making a pedantic argument that incorrectly dismissed being called-out on hypocrisy doesn’t help. Putting all that aside, when a former LEO with hurt feelings over a disagreement explains how he would use a broken tail light as pretext to do a traffic stop on the person with whom he disagrees and then use reprehensible cop… Read more »
I don’t use profanity. Innuendo yes, profanity no – not unless I’m quoting WillTEX, Oldman, Nea etc, who never stopped full on foul mouth thug mode.
Profanity or not, it doesn’t bother me. The hypocrisy from the crew is hilarious though.
It’s almost like an enforcer enforcing a law against someone he doesn’t like and not enforcing the same law against someone he does like. Almost.
They mostly come at night…Mostly.
Will you tell it to Oldman, Will & others who gloated as if my truce offer was some sort of surrender, as if they had nothing to do with the situation, never laid off? If not, more hypocrisy from you.
duckworth, kinzinger … are a vets … think they have the best interest of the country in mind? Hell, think they even care about vets? All they did was play blame game when a VA facility was infected with Legionnaires’ Disease. Had the ability to actually DO something about the VA, yet nothing was done till Trump.
zuzuk, I was being facetious in both what I wrote and how I wrote it. I form opinions on politicians based on their policy positions and how effective they are at working on that agenda. Whether they worked for the government prior to entering politics is not relevant to me, but it is to many others. Unless I intend to mock someone, I’m also frugal with exclamation points. I’m also an advocate of free markets in which businesses can price their products as them deem appropriate. For a couple days, I was just clownin’. You may see a number of… Read more »
See?
@JSNMGC How about a significantly smaller, less intrusive and expensive government wherein everyone from the mail man to the president is held to the same standards as you and I? We can abolish a number of departments in their entirety, for their existence is anathema to the Constitution. ATF, HHS, EDU, EPA, HUD, IRS, etc, and every duplicative program can be terminated. All departments that are allowed to remain must be trimmed by at least 40% of staff. Abolish the “federal” reserve and reinstitute NOT the gold standard But coinage. That would be a great start. Along with a two-term… Read more »
Yes please on all the cuts.
I’m pro government – it just needs to look significantly different.
Some education in high school about the monetary system and a detailed explanation to all those curious minds about exactly why Biden’s monstrous lie about “it’s all paid for” is wrong and where government spending and wealth redistribution will lead.
Comparing the events in U.S. to history to the history of other totalitarian regimes should scare everyone, but it doesn’t.
Hi guys!
Did you get out today an enjoy the great outdoors?
Guess not.
Well, there’s always tomorrow!
Imagine how pathetic one’s life must be to follow someone on a forum for the sole purpose of downvoting everything they post. It’s obvious they don’t actually disagree with what’s being said. They just hate the person saying it so much that they’ll downvote literally anything. It’s really quite sad. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing.
Sometimes people are put on this earth as an example of how not to live. There are only so many days and no one knows the number.
Yep, after church and visiting old people and lunch, I rode fence most of the afternoon.
The neighbor went to S. Texas deer hunting and his little boy was angry that he did not get to go along. So I set up and tent, with his mother’s permission, between their house and round pen. Built a fire pit, gathered up some fallen firewood and put up a 23″ x 35″ Eze-Scorer mule deer target so the kid could shoot at it with his BB-gun.
Great fun in the Texas sun.
That’s great – I’m sure you had a good time and what a nice thing to do for the kids.
I addressed my comment to the downvoters though, I suspect you are not one of the three amigos.
It was a little sloppy here today – started out with snow and then rained on and off. Still got in a nice hike up a forest road that’s a bit elevated.
He’s not one of the 3 amigos, but he makes excuses for them. Good-cop bad-cop act? Hypocrisy in any case.
I don’t know.
I do know the sun is out and I’ve been invited on a trail ride in the Teton Wilderness, so I’m leaving now with some elk tenderloin steaks to grill afterwards.
Not many of these days left here this season.
Bastard
Cheers! I’ll bring some Bordeaux as well and we’ll all toast freedom.
“I’m pro gvt – it just needs to look significantly different.”
I’m still plowing through sermons of the American Revolution. All the Revolutionary preachers would agree with you.
Mainly Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Baptist, in that order. Turns out Episcopalian preachers were largely on the British side. Why am I not surprised?
Totalitarians are quick to label non-statists as “anti-government,” when many of them are extremely pro-government (they just study history).
“We will make our appeal to Heaven against oppression & not fear to bleed freely in the cause we transmit to future generations, though the country be wasted by the sword, the most essential part of the fair patrimony from our brave & hardy progenitors, the right of the honest fruits of our industry.” -Rev Wm Gordon Thanksgiving sermon 12-15-1774
“Where could this reverend politician – Christian sower of Sedition, warfaring priest, have learnt to preach up sedition, rebellion, carnage & blood? I wish his profession would confine themselves to gospel truth.” -‘Loyalist’ trashing the sermon
That’s a good start!
Agree excepting a small quibble. I don’t think standards should be the same. With power comes responsibility, with great power comes great responsibility. If we intrust someone with the power of the presidency, we must hold them to the highest possible standards. Way beyond any requirements you or I face.
I’m certainly pleased that “pro-gun” candidates made such a good showing in the election. But remember there is no such thing as a good, honest politician. Not a one! We need to wait and see what this new crop actually does. For example, I would like to see the preemption business resolved quickly so that I don’t have to have a lawyer in my pocket to keep me from breaking laws when traveling around the state. And while I’m glad we have a “pro-gun” Lt. Governor, the photo here does not suggest to me that she knows her way around… Read more »
So now workman joins the goabels wannabe club with hutison and crump.
High jacking a successful persons picture for your shameless promotion of the filthy criminal nra.
You 3 stooges are pathetic.
Why don’t you just go ahead and crow about how the filthy nra was directly responsible for getting Sears elected ?
Oh that’s right, THEY WERENT.
YOU SHAMELESS PROPAGANDISTS.
Not an NRA member. I rep GOA
The writers also do not control the pictures.
Thanks. Would be nice if AmmoLand didn’t post a misleading pic making appear NRA elected her or she reps NRA.
In the last 5 yrs >$100m of member money that should’ve gone to elections was diverted to LaPew’s vampire lawyer Brewski, who, per testimony, LaPew repeatedly said is “the only thing keeping me [LaPew] out of jail.”
I have a hard time believing that.
It’s your story, take responsibility for its accuracy!
You and workman can easily get the real pic from her facebook page or any other source, but you choose to use a fraudulent, high jacked pic in YOUR story.
You 3 amigos continue to do the bidding of the skunk, Li’l Wayne LA P U.
If you want any semblance of credibility you would insist ammoland NOT use a phony pic in YOUR story.
But you are just fine with perpetrating the fraud.
I accept you don’t control the pics, but are you allowed to request a different photo?
The Senate is still majority Democrat, clownTEX.
10+ denials of reality right there after clownTEX deleted his post & RAN AWAY.
“I WANT TO BELIEVE IT’S RED NOW! F YOUR FACTS!”
They are only voting against you because you treat people as if you grew up in the Gambino family.
Sure thing, Agent Orange. But you love foul-mouth thuggery from your pet chimp WillTEX because he’s ‘genuine’.
You prove my point.
You prove my point.
You don’t ever actually have valid points, all you have is hate filled, bigoted, hyperbole to the proverbial nth degree
Sure thing, Agent. Unlike your pet Chimp and your own hate filled bigoted hyperbole to the proverbial nth degree.
Oh. OK.
Yeah, the Gambino Family’s pet Chimpanzee who needs a mouth cleansing. Too bad his birth mom gave him up for adoption rather than flush him down the ol’ s$$t hole.
What’s up, Agent? You’re ok with foul-mouth thuggery by your pet chimp WillTEX. What’re you guys? Chimp handlers? Monkey grinders?
I know it’s useless, but I will try once more, just for the sake of it. Ammoland is a site, IMO, that exists for all people related to guns, gun laws, and overall gun use by patriotic folk. There are gonna be different opinions on some of the subjects and that is a great thing. That is communication and no good thing comes out of miscommunication. With that said, when people who are no longer able to voice their own thoughts and ideas on a given topic and because someone disagrees with them, that someone is now to be called… Read more »
Ease up on the pretend-priss hypocrisy, Agent. You talk S about my mom, DV everything I post & upvote foul-mouth thuggery by your pet chimp ex-enforcer WillTEX. Or is he your alter ego? You Agent-Chimp Handler-Tribalists do love your sock pups.
You whine about YOUR treatment by others, including myself, when you are only getting back what you started in the first place. How does it feel now, little laddy?;
No whining; just pointing out your hypocrisy, Agent. Your DVs are amusing.
I didn’t start it. You & your pet chimp did, long ago.
All can see that you Agents dv JSM too, who doesn’t play rough or go in for payback in-kind as I do.
That said, my retorts are mild compared to what you upvote your chimp for posting and compared to your own foul-mouth crap.
That said, I’m willing to declare a truce if you are. All of you. Your tribe.
I guess the proof of that is in your putting. It would be great if you can actually do it.
@OM
You have done it! Could it be that you have brought back civility to this site?
If it is ok with everyone else, then it is ok by me!
Can you get Will and the others to knock it off too? OK by me.
It’s a 2-way street, and I guess the proof of that is in your pudding. It would be great if you can actually do it. That means you stop the dvs on JSM too. I’ll believe it when I see it.
But suppose that someone really disagrees with you and is not just down voting because you are the author?
Uh huh. Like you guys just did?