Virginia Citizens Defense League- VCDL

[prepare]

https://vcdl.org/Join-VCDL

We are well aware the 2A is under attack. The fight is on in Virginia. And the fights coming to other states as well.

You don't have to live in Virginia to join or support the VCDL and send a message to the anti-gun legislators.

Get involved and do your part to resist tyranny.

[Buncheong]

Exc post, thanks for this.

[RazorBurn]

I like the response a lot of the counties of Virginia are sending to Richmond. I'm a member of the WVCDL and they've done a real good job in West Virginia getting things like constitutional carry and getting preemption passed forbidding municipalities from bypassing state and federal gun laws. They've been very effective in West Virginia and I'm sure the VCDL is doing it's best in Virginia.

[Diamondback]

I like the response a lot of the counties of Virginia are sending to Richmond. I'm a member of the WVCDL and they've done a real good job in West Virginia getting things like constitutional carry and getting preemption passed forbidding municipalities from bypassing state and federal gun laws. They've been very effective in West Virginia and I'm sure the VCDL is doing it's best in Virginia.

IIRC, Phil Van Cleave at VCDL was one of the driving forces behind VA loosening its CCW regs back in the '90s to early '00s. Used to be a regular back in the Packing.org days.

[ramairthree]

The Founding Fathers were smart.
They knew to get us away from a monarchy, protect us from the tyranny of the majority, and explicitly state rights that the government has no authority to take away. They built in checks and balances, protection against urbanization and industrialization dictating how everyone else should live, etc.

And we spent the next 200 years jacking it up.

Just like rural New York, Colorado, Vermont, and Massachusetts,
Reynolds v. Simms has now struck Virginia.

At the federal level, giving each state an equal status in the upper house has been degraded And under attack because it gives less populated states equal representation.

At the state level, the protection rural citizens used to have from their way of life being dictated by cities was eradicated by Reynolds v. Simms.

[Diamondback]

The Founding Fathers were smart.
They knew to get us away from a monarchy, protect us from the tyranny of the majority, and explicitly state rights that the government has no authority to take away. They built in checks and balances, protection against urbanization and industrialization dictating how everyone else should live, etc.

And we spent the next 200 years jacking it up.

Just like rural New York, Colorado, Vermont, and Massachusetts,
Reynolds v. Simms has now struck Virginia.

At the federal level, giving each state an equal status in the upper house has been degraded And under attack because it gives less populated states equal representation.

At the state level, the protection rural citizens used to have from their way of life being dictated by cities was eradicated by Reynolds v. Simms.

Yeah, we really need Electoral Colleges at the state level--if we mirrored the Federal structure at State level, many Blue States would be more Purple.

[prepare]

This along with a whole host of other problems isn't going to be solved through discussions and legislative processes. That stuff hasn't been solving anything for years.

[The_War_Wagon]

Yeah, we really need Electoral Colleges at the state level--if we mirrored the Federal structure at State level, many Blue States would be more Purple.

People be-otch, that we have TOO many state house & senate CONgresscritters, BUT... PA has the two blue anchors (Pittsburgh & Philthy), and the rest is a RED state! And THAT has kept us from passing STOOPID local pre-emption bills for more than a century.

[ramairthree]

Yeah, we really need Electoral Colleges at the state level--if we mirrored the Federal structure at State level, many Blue States would be more Purple.

That's how things were initially intended.
The Feds had both a lower house and an upper house.
Lower house by popular vote and based on population.
With the upper house Senators voted in a representative republic fashion, based on per state. Which changed to popular vote about a hundred years ago. With current furor over it not being fair less populated states get an equal standing to more populated states. Which was the whole point. Progressives are dying to do everything by popular vote, not account for who should actually be voting, reward votes with largesse, and use these votes to undermine the actual tenets, intents, and purposes of how our government was designed.

The states had all been the same, except one midwest state went to a different format about the same time federal senators went to popular vote. Then, along with many other things in the 1960s, states were forced to abandon regional equality in representation.

The incessant drive for popular vote, popular vote, popular vote removes many of the intended protections. Which, combined with politics becoming a profession instead of a short career, and very shady congressional districting, results in one thing.

The 50% of the population that lives in 1% of the land mass, wants to tell the other half how everything is going to be and how they are going to live their lives.

edit-
I was neither a poli sci nor history major. I have relayed the gist as I remember it,
exact dates, etc. may be a little off.

[jpmuscle]

People be-otch, that we have TOO many state house & senate CONgresscritters, BUT... PA has the two blue anchors (Pittsburgh & Philthy), and the rest is a RED state! And THAT has kept us from passing STOOPID local pre-emption bills for more than a century.

I spent a few years near Butler and the color red was an absolute understatement.


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