Northam Uses Virginia Beach Shooting To Deflect From Racism Accusations

By Tom Knighton

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam didn’t have a lot going for him last Thursday. He was a disgraced governor who probably should have stepped down, but didn’t. After all, racial insensitivity is not something that gets tolerated all that much these days by either side. Especially when it was during a time when such things weren’t really kosher to begin with.

Then there was a mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building on Friday, which opened up a world of possibilities for Northam.

The Democrat wasted no time in trying to cram gun control down the throat of Virginians, recalling legislators for a special session specifically to pass gun control.

However, at the end of the day, all of that is little more than opportunistically seizing on a tragedy to deflect from your own moral failings. Northam even all but admits it outright.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said it was time to move on from the blackface/Ku Klux Klan yearbook photo scandal with the conclusion of the Eastern Virginia Medical School’s investigation.

“What has happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I regret that, I have addressed that. But today we are talking about gun violence and how to …Read the Rest

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