Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain semi-automatic firearms, prompting immediate lawsuits from gun-rights groups.
The limits on “ assault firearms,” as they are described by the legislation, are among two dozen new restrictions and regulations on guns enacted by the Democratic governor in her first few months in office. That marks a sharp policy reversal from her Republican predecessor, who had vetoed many similar measures.
“Firearms designed to inflict maximum casualties do not belong on our streets,” Spanberger said in a statement Friday. “We are taking this step to protect families and support the law enforcement officers who work every day to keep our communities safe.”
The new gun restrictions move Virginia closer to the likes of California, Illinois and New York, which similarly have full Democratic control of their legislatures and governors’ offices. They also highlight a continued national divide on gun policy, as various Republican-led states have taken steps to relax firearm restrictions that they describe as an infringement on Second Amendment rights.
It’s because both parties act as a ratcheting effect towards one singular goal. While there are minor disputes among the owners of the US on how best to reach that goal, they generally both agree that an armed populace is antithetical to their long term control, especially as quality of life continues to drop drastically across the population while they build their replacement for the working class.
Dems do their best to stall actual developmental progress (no kids, letting you buy insurance that has no coverage outside niche lifestyle conditions and letting gay people marry temporarily is not progressing society in any way) while republicans crank towards the shared goal by destroying progress and offering a ‘antiestablishment’ path that does nothing to harm the establishment.
If one side says ‘yeah totally, keeep your guns, fight for your guns,’ while doing everything to eliminate everything that actually matters for your quality of life, and the other side says ‘yeah sure we’ll improve your quality of life, but we want to take your guns,’ then both sides funnel different groups into a looped cycle where life objectively gets worse for the average person, but the average person doesn’t know how to blame so they just pick a team colour to hate for their lifetime.
Progress stopped in the 1960s in the US, and was dead in the water besides temporary privileges, not rights, after 1972.
I wonder wtf happened in 1972.