Thousands of heavily armed protesters chant 'We will not comply' in gun rights rally against Virginia's Democrat governor's proposed clampdown on firearms - which at least two local sheriffs say they WON'T enforce
Daily Mail
January 20, 2020
Tens of thousands of people converged in the streets of Richmond, Virginia, on Monday to protest their right to bear arms in the face of swinging gun control laws set to be enacted later this year.
They started arriving before dawn - army veterans, stay-at-home-moms, attorneys, welders, democrats, republicans - united under banners defending the second amendment and, they believe, a constitution under attack. And many of them came with their guns: AR-15s, long-guns and handguns.
Governor Ralph Northam had issued a ban on a list of weapons including guns on Capitol Grounds but though the official rally was confined to a steel pen in the grounds sloping up to Virginia State Capitol, there were more people outside that perimeter and outside the scope of the ban.
Security was tight and visible - hundreds of cops on the streets and in the grounds, screening lanes at the only entrance to the park, the rest of which had been fenced off.
On Monday morning, President Trump fanned the flames of the already simmering tensions by tweeting: 'The Democrat Party in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia are working hard to take away your 2nd Amendment rights. 'This is just the beginning. Don't let it happen, VOTE REPUBLICAN in 2020!'
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Mother of activist who was run down and killed by a white supremacist at the 2017 Charlottesville race rally says she is a gun owner and the Virginia Dems are going TOO FAR with their firearms restrictions
Daily Mail
January 20, 2020
The mother of Heather Heyer, the activist who was run down and killed during the Charlottesville race rally in 2017, has revealed she is a long-time gun owner and believes Virginia Democrats are going too far with their firearms restrictions.
Susan Bro spoke out as thousands of gun-rights activists - many carrying weapons - rallied in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass sweeping gun-control legislation.
'I grew up with guns,' Bro told CNN on Monday. 'I believe in common sense gun measures, but not extreme measures.
She also slammed Donald Trump for using the moment to 'push politics' following tweets saying voters need to back Republicans in 2020 to protect their gun rights, and claimed the president 'could care less about the Second Amendment.'
Bro's daughter, 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer, was among hundreds demonstrating against white nationalists in Charlottesville in August 2017 when James Alex Fields Jr drove his car into the group, killing Heyer and injuring dozens of others.
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