Virginian Gun Rights

 

As Virginians watch liberal Democrats take over their State Government due mainly to Washington, DC’s expansion and immigration policy, accompanied by real threats to their historic gun rights, Virginians have an innate sense that this threat is illegal as well as immoral.  However, debate exists among Virginians as to how to frame the legal and moral argument.  Most have focused upon the Second Amendment to the Federal Constitution, and thus the movement in general is called the “Virginia 2A gun sanctuary” movement.  Others have countered that focus should be placed in Article I, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution.  Presumably the former would be adjudicated by the Federal courts and ultimately the Federal Supreme Court, whereas the latter would be adjudicated by the current Virginia courts.  Let me submit that both legal arguments have validity, and can well be cited, on top of additional legal arguments, but at the end of the day Virginians must be more realistic in the way they address their current crisis.

 

Here are at least some of the main legal and moral arguments for Virginian gun rights:

 

1.       God has endowed every family, tribe and nation with gun rights to protect and defend their own (Exodus 22:2, Deuteronomy 20:1).  With respect to tribes and nations having such collective gun rights, which in turn has implications on their citizens being able to bear arms, all “just war” theory is predicated on such rights.

2.       Anglo-Americans, of which Virginians are a part, have an historic common law right to bear arms, recognized from antiquity in this people group, such as explained at https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senhardy.html. (This is in contrast to most other people groups in the world, which is why immigration can be used as a tool to overturn gun rights of Virginians along with other Anglo-Americans.)

3.       Article I, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution (“That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.") legally protects gun rights of Virginians.

4.       Virginia and the other States covenanted to the Articles of Confederation, and there was a legal process for amending this original constitution of the USA.  That legal process has never been followed, so by legal right the Articles of Confederation are still legally and morally binding upon the USA and the States which are part of it. Under the Articles of Confederation, States were required to maintain their own “well-regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered” with “a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage.” Virginia therefore has a legal obligation residing in the Articles of Confederation to maintain a citizens’ militia and hence uphold gun rights necessary to maintain such.

5.       The Federal Constitution illegally replaced the Articles of Confederation, but nevertheless it is recognized by and sworn to by Federal Government officials. The Second Amendment to the Federal Constitution reads thus: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”  While this Amendment is limited to affecting Federal Government action, it speaks to more than just direct Federal Government confiscation of firearms.  Since the Federal Government has assumed to itself control and enforcement of immigration and protection thereby of the people of the USA (such assumption in reality being illegal and immoral, but nevertheless applicable in consideration of what Federal Government officials do), the Second Amendment legally and morally obliges Federal Government officials to concern themselves with how its immigration policy will impact gun rights.  If the Federal Government allows foreign people to immigrate (whether legally or illegally), especially on a massive scale, who have no conscience regarding historic Anglo-American gun rights, then that is an illegal and immoral act, such that Virginians and Anglo-Americans in the other States of the USA have a legal and moral right to take such collective action as is necessary and appropriate for the defense of their liberties.

 

All of the above arguments, and probably others in addition to these, can appropriately be cited and claimed by Virginians.

 

Nevertheless, while all such can appropriately be argued, surely such must be accompanied by a strong dose of demographic realism on the part of Virginians.  Many people now reside within the current borders of Virginia who are loyal to the Federal “global nation” empire and not at all to historic Anglo-American gun rights. Given demographic realities, Virginia is likely a full-fledged cog in the wheel of the centralized Federal “global nation” empire.  Virginia thus joins other States like California in this infamous list, and more States will surely follow.  The US Federal Government controls immigration and forcibly prevents States from controlling it.  Its direction is to fully turn the USA into a centralized Federal “global nation” empire, contrary to the USA’s beginning as a confederation of Anglo-American patriot States under the Articles of Confederation.  Its methodology throughout has been contrary to legal procedure, employing subtlety and coercion.  Since it controls the demography, it controls the political direction.  It has used demographic changes to turn Virginia “blue”.  Efforts by Virginians to appeal to Federal and Virginia Government officials will likely prove fruitless in the long term.

 

Conservative Virginians need to wake up to the reality that a winning long-term political strategy today means following the successful political strategy of the Anglo-American patriot forefathers of yesterday.  They too had to contend with a powerful centralized empire.  They formed State Committees of Correspondence in which members elected an alternative state assembly to the empire’s assembly.  Each such alternative state assembly in turn sent delegates to a Continental Congress of Anglo-American patriot States, so that the fully sovereign States were confederated under the Articles of Confederation. Those wanting to remain part of the empire were effectively partitioned out, in their case in Canada.

 

The State partitioning should employ a political strategy which has been successfully used to gerrymander congressional districts in the South (see https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-politics/how-does-gerrymandering-work/article32467642/ ) -


"Many oddly shaped districts sprang from civil-rights legislation designed to increase black representation in the halls of power. Their boundaries reach this way and that to gather in African-American voters and create so-called majority-minority districts that tend to elect black representatives, usually Democratic. The effect, though, is to bleach surrounding districts white. That suits Republicans, because those districts often tend to vote for them. The result has been what was once called an unholy alliance between white Republicans and black Democrats."


In other words, the partitioned "blue area" State should be so drawn that it is majority African American, and thus garners significant African American support for the partition, since it will provide them a State where they are the ruling majority. They then no longer have to be satisfied with "black-face Northam" as their governor. African Americans make up approximately 20% of the Virginia population.  In turn, conservative Virginians will obtain a "red area" Virginia they control, which will comprise most of current Virginia's geographic area.  Liberal whites describe this as an "unholy alliance", because white Republicans team up with black Democrats to reach a mutually agreeable solution, to the detriment of liberal whites.

 

It would be fitting for Virginia to be the first State to organize such a State Committee of Correspondence in which members elected an alternative state assembly and work towards partitioning out the “blue areas”.  It would not take that many members to do so, and it would set the pattern for other States to follow, so that a restored Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation could rise again. The liberal “blue areas” of Virginia would be partitioned out of Virginia and eventually out of the USA:

 

 

 

 

It would be fitting for Virginia to be the first State to raise up a full-fledged State Committee of Correspondence because:

 

1.       The first permanent Anglo-American settlement in North America began in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, and spread out from there.  They were under able civil and business leaders like Captain John Smith and John Rolfe.

2.       Many Anglo-Americans began in Virginia in the 1600s, and from their trekked southward and westward (like some of my ancestors did).  They brought with them Anglo-American law, religion, culture, government, etc.

3.       Virginia helped lead the way in the War of Independence from the British Empire, stirred onward by patriots such as Patrick Henry and Henry “Light Horse” Lee.

4.       Virginia provided some of the most eloquent defenses of remaining under the Articles of Confederation and not illegally abandoning them, along with prescient warnings of doing so, especially as delivered by Patrick Henry.

5.       The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, affirmed States’ Rights against the encroachments even in the late 1700s of the Federal Government.

6.       In the 19th century Virginia provided the permanent capital of the States’ Rights effort of the Confederacy in the War Between the States, and Virginia provided the Confederacy with some of its most illustrious generals like Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

7.       In the 20th century Virginia was the home base of the “massive resistance” against Federal Government usurpations, led by Virginian Harry F. Byrd.

 

So we can pray that God would raise up a Virginia Committee of Correspondence (see  https://www.facebook.com/Virginia-Committee-of-Correspondence-100828864631512/ ) and set the pattern for other Anglo-American patriot States to follow, towards the restoration of a confederated USA of Anglo-American Patriot States, under the Articles of Confederation (America’s first constitution that was unadvisedly and illegally abandoned), with America’s first national flag (the Continental Colors or Grand Union flag) as the symbol of our enterprise:

 

 

 

This confederated USA can have partitioned out of the USA those liberal “blue” areas in a sea of “red” areas that remain part of the USA, such as illustrated here:

 

 

 

The recent success of Brexit should be an encouragement that this is possible.

 

 

 

Facebook page of the National Effort: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReturnToArticlesOfConfederation/ 

 

 

Index of Articles related to this Cause:  http://www.puritans.net/articles/indexarticlesconfederation.htm .