The annual VCDL Lobby Day rally is over, with no incidents and no arrests. WaPo is crushed - they really expected better from us, I think. WaPo was forced to run a story that indicated thousands attended, and not a single one was arrested or caused an incident. To salve their wounded pride, they mentioned a WaPo "survey" in the article and insinuated that, despite the thousands in attendance saying otherwise, "Virginia still wants commonsense (notice how the Socialists have taken to running those two words together into one word?) gun safety laws" - the "poll" they cited was months old, from before the elections, and was designed to support gun control rather than provide any objectivity. In other words, like mot polls, it was gibberish - and they STLL had to mention one that was months old, due to the dearth of recent polls saying the same thing, even crookedly engineered ones.
Remember how EVERY poll predicted a "crushing loss" for Trump in 2016? Yeah. Polls. SMFH.
Most of the crowd was outside the kill zone rally area. There were, according to some reports, a crowd of about 6000 on Capitol grounds inside the fencing. Various estimates I've seen for the TOTAL attendance, including those outside the fencing, are running from 100,000 to 120,000, most of whom were armed and elected to stay outside the fence where they could retain their weapons. All those folks, armed, and NOT ONE incident or arrest.
When it became clear on Social Media that quite a large crew of the attendees were insisting that they were still going armed, the gun-grabbers started putting out frantic calls to their followers to stay away, because it was going to be just too dangerous to go on the attack. Some went anyhow, but seem to have been overawed by the sheer firepower, and behaved themselves accordingly. One group of 15 college students and one high schooler went in last night and spent the night INSIDE the Pocahontas building in the offices of two of the democrat delegates, never venturing forth into the crowd today - spent the whole day indoors where it was "safe".
Another group of 9 radical communists from Los Angeles came, preaching communist revolution in the streets. They were resoundingly ignored by the greater mass of folks there to see after their 2nd Amendment rights. Ever seen a yappy little ankle-biter dog furiously yapping at a big dog? You know, where the big dog raised his head, cocks an eye at the tiny dog, then lays his head back down in a studied effort to ignore the yapping? Yeah, it was kinda like that.
One odd sight was Antifa - Seven Hills marching along with the rest of the 2A "right wingers", in protest of the same laws. Apparently these proposals are not too popular among the Left, either, despite the "polls". Their contention is that they oppose anti-gun legislation because "marginalized groups" also have the right to defend themselves with firearms, a point I agree with. My rights do not dissolve any one else's rights, you know? If their rights have no value, then mine don't either. "Rights" are funny like that - they work for every one, or they work for no one.
I'm not sure the "live streams" were blocked by government, and I'm not sure they weren't - it could have been something as simple as that many people concentrated in one area, all with cell phones, overwhelming the towers and overloading them.
At the end of the rally, armed "right wingers" were witnessed, and photographed, cleaning up the area, policing up the trash and even peeling off errant "guns save lives" stickers from the sidewalks where some had landed when falling off of frozen clothing. Yeah, they cleaned up after themselves, which I have never heard of the Left doing after one of their rallies. It's a right-wing thing. Y'all Left-wingers wouldn't understand.
All in all, it was a resounding success, despite the disappointment in the "news" services. A strong message was delivered to anyone who cares to hear it. If it is ignored, and the legislation passes anyhow, well, then it's on to the next step. This was just notice that there are a LOT of Virginians willing to take that next step if it's made necessary. Imagine how many more there are who WEREN'T there...
Northam and Company - you have been warned. Your move now.
ETA: Police are estimating 22,000 attendees, and report one arrest out of them this evening.
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Remember how EVERY poll predicted a "crushing loss" for Trump in 2016? Yeah. Polls. SMFH.
Most of the crowd was outside the kill zone rally area. There were, according to some reports, a crowd of about 6000 on Capitol grounds inside the fencing. Various estimates I've seen for the TOTAL attendance, including those outside the fencing, are running from 100,000 to 120,000, most of whom were armed and elected to stay outside the fence where they could retain their weapons. All those folks, armed, and NOT ONE incident or arrest.
When it became clear on Social Media that quite a large crew of the attendees were insisting that they were still going armed, the gun-grabbers started putting out frantic calls to their followers to stay away, because it was going to be just too dangerous to go on the attack. Some went anyhow, but seem to have been overawed by the sheer firepower, and behaved themselves accordingly. One group of 15 college students and one high schooler went in last night and spent the night INSIDE the Pocahontas building in the offices of two of the democrat delegates, never venturing forth into the crowd today - spent the whole day indoors where it was "safe".
Another group of 9 radical communists from Los Angeles came, preaching communist revolution in the streets. They were resoundingly ignored by the greater mass of folks there to see after their 2nd Amendment rights. Ever seen a yappy little ankle-biter dog furiously yapping at a big dog? You know, where the big dog raised his head, cocks an eye at the tiny dog, then lays his head back down in a studied effort to ignore the yapping? Yeah, it was kinda like that.
One odd sight was Antifa - Seven Hills marching along with the rest of the 2A "right wingers", in protest of the same laws. Apparently these proposals are not too popular among the Left, either, despite the "polls". Their contention is that they oppose anti-gun legislation because "marginalized groups" also have the right to defend themselves with firearms, a point I agree with. My rights do not dissolve any one else's rights, you know? If their rights have no value, then mine don't either. "Rights" are funny like that - they work for every one, or they work for no one.
I'm not sure the "live streams" were blocked by government, and I'm not sure they weren't - it could have been something as simple as that many people concentrated in one area, all with cell phones, overwhelming the towers and overloading them.
At the end of the rally, armed "right wingers" were witnessed, and photographed, cleaning up the area, policing up the trash and even peeling off errant "guns save lives" stickers from the sidewalks where some had landed when falling off of frozen clothing. Yeah, they cleaned up after themselves, which I have never heard of the Left doing after one of their rallies. It's a right-wing thing. Y'all Left-wingers wouldn't understand.
All in all, it was a resounding success, despite the disappointment in the "news" services. A strong message was delivered to anyone who cares to hear it. If it is ignored, and the legislation passes anyhow, well, then it's on to the next step. This was just notice that there are a LOT of Virginians willing to take that next step if it's made necessary. Imagine how many more there are who WEREN'T there...
Northam and Company - you have been warned. Your move now.
ETA: Police are estimating 22,000 attendees, and report one arrest out of them this evening.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’