Ralph Northam’s Losing Battle on Sanctuaries

[Ptarmigan]

Ralph Northam’s Losing Battle on Sanctuaries
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/ralph-northams-losing-battle-on-sanctuaries/

Ralph Northam is about to make the biggest tactical mistake in Virginia since Cornwallis decided to park his army at Yorktown. With his attempt to force local commonwealth’s attorneys and sheriffs in Second Amendment sanctuaries to enforce his unconstitutional gun laws, Governor Northam is setting himself up for a catastrophic failure. In fact, there’s no way for Northam to win the fight he seems intent on picking with Virginia gun owners and Second Amendment sanctuaries.

The governor isn’t being helped by fellow Democrats such as U.S. congressman Donald McEachin, who said the governor should call out the National Guard to enforce the law, or Attorney General Mark Herring, who blithely says he expects that the laws will be followed once they’re on the books.

There are also Democrats, such as Delegate David Toscano, who have been comparing the Second Amendment–sanctuary movement to the Massive Resistance movement that unfolded in Virginia in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Massive Resistance came about after Democratic governor Thomas B. Stanley organized a state-level opposition movement to the integration of public schools in Virginia in the late 1950s. To compare it to today’s Second Amendment–sanctuary movement is to compare apples and oranges on a couple of different levels.

Ralph Northam is the hard left. Scary times.

[Eupher]

What the author of the article fails to consider is the resolve of many Virginians not to let this ***** governor (well, he's not a ***** against lawful gun owners - to those folks, he's thrown down the proverbial gauntlet) ramrod his unconstitutional laws down their throats.

Northam has doubled down in his idiotic goal to "save" the commonwealth from gun violence.

No, Northam's posturing and dick-waving is seen for what it is -- going up against a determined populace and supporters. Wouldn't surprise me to see an attempt for a recall.

Bloomberg can be proud. He bought himself a shitload of trouble.