Virginia GOP State Senator: Going To Be “Easier To Talk About Guns After Election”

By Cam Edwards

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Virginia’s state elections will be held on November 5th of this year, and every seat in the state legislature is up for election. Gun control activists are already pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into 15 legislative districts, primarily in the D.C., Virginia Beach, and Richmond suburbs. Gun control activists don’t have to win every one in order to take over the legislature either. Gains of just a handful of seats in each chamber would result in anti-gun legislative majorities to go along with an anti-gun governor and state attorney general.

Democrats have been trying to make gun control a big issue in this year’s campaign, accusing Republicans who don’t support Governor Ralph Northam’s gun control package of caring more about guns than children, and being tools of the “gun lobby” instead of representing their constitutents. Republicans pushed back on that smear, and have actually offered substantive legislation to empower cities to tackle gang violence, but have yet to attract any Democrat co-sponsors. A few Republicans in those contested suburban districts have brought up their support for “red flag” laws, and Mary Margaret Kastleberg, who’s running as a Republican for a seat outside …Read the Rest

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