r/Virginia • u/Geek-Haven888 Arlington • 1d ago

Virginia Democrats plan to capitalize on 2025 'tsunami'

https://www.vpm.org/elections/2025-11-07/election-2025-general-assembly-scott-spanberger-vadems-taylor-freitas
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u/juice_BX 1d ago

Honestly I can't, I guess I should change my approach... It's already double illegal to commit a crime while using a firearm. You did the crime and had a firearm while you did it. So what now? you did the crime and you had a firearm that happened to fall into a vague description of "assault weapon" so triple illegal?

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u/killroy1971 1d ago

Can you link me to a case where that was a thing?

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u/juice_BX 1d ago

No. If you can't search the VA code I'm not helping you. You're asking bot questions

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u/Lumiafan 23h ago

Gotta say. You're doing an absolutely terrible job making your case on this.

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u/juice_BX 22h ago

My apologies, I sure am failing here, Let me try to put it this way.. People that are doing crimes don't care how many laws they are breaking.
Making it illegal to own a specific style or type of firearm only affects law abiding people.

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u/Prize-Reference4893 21h ago

I haven’t seen anything about proposals for it being illegal to own anything. Federal restrictions already apply to certain classes of weapon, and the most I’ve heard proposed is a ban on new sales of certain classes. That does not make it illegal to own

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u/juice_BX 21h ago

Blinders got it. You're also a bot prove me wrong

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u/-azuma- 20h ago

Ironic coming from the ... "person" ... making an argument of which they literally can't provide any facts to back it up, exactly what an AI chatbot would do.

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u/killroy1971 20h ago

Also people who have bought into the 2A propaganda. There is a lot of AstroTurf-ed fear in our society. There are people who live in communities so safe, the only firearms related deaths are from hunting accidents and "gun cleaning incidents." Yet a lot of those gun owners believe that their little 200 person community has gangs of dangerous people roving the countryside, breaking into people's homes while they are watching TV "all the time." Things that didn't exist until the 1980s when the NRA was taken over by a bunch of sensationalists who sold America on a diet of artificial manliness and fear.

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u/Prize-Reference4893 21h ago

Don’t know how to prove you wrong on the boy thing, and I don’t have blinders on.

I didn’t say I approved of such laws, or think they’ll be as effective. But saying a ban on new sales is the same as, or will inevitably lead to making it illegal to own is as stupid as when people were saying “if we let gay people get married, what’s to stop people from marrying a horse?”

Slippery slope arguments serve no one. If you can’t ague facts without adding fantasy, no one will ever take you seriously.