Are We Protecting Victims or Are We Playing Gun-Control Games With Their Lives?

By Justin Stakes

Covington, VA -(Ammoland.com)- HB 766, Delegate Gilbert, and SB 626, Senator Vogel, turn a protective order into a temporary concealed handgun permit, covering the person being protected by the order while waiting for their CHP application to be processed and their permanent CHP to be issued.

Both of those bills passed the House and Senate. They provide *real* protection for the victim, not just a piece of paper that will not save the victim from a determined assailant.

You would think that McAuliffe, the gun-control lobby, and groups representing domestic-violence survivors would be cheering at the top of their lungs because of the protection these two bills offer victims.

Well, you’d be dead wrong.

The the gun-control lobby and groups representing domestic-violence survivors both have said in General Assembly committees that women would not be capable of defending themselves with a firearm in an emergency. Now this is a real war on women! The elitism, sexism, condescension of that position is staggering, but the media, as usual, just gives them a pass.

Now the Governor has jumped in and provided his own version of the bill, which goes back to the Legislature for …Read the Rest

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