Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ran as a moderate who was just interested in making life more affordable for Virginians. While I disagreed with how she wanted to make it more affordable, I could see that as a laudable enough goal. The problem is that she got into office and immediately jumped on redistricting and gun control, which was not what she told the people would happen.
And neither has really gone according to plan.
Redistricting got shot down by the state supreme court, and her efforts at gun control–which, in fairness, are extensive–are also blowing up in her face.
Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s efforts to enact a sweeping gun-control agenda were placed on hold by courts in June, while the state Legislature pushed back the effective date of another law.
Since Thursday, judges in Lancaster County and Washington County issued preliminary injunctions preventing enforcement of a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms, while Spanberger had to request that the state Legislature delay the effective date of a ban on carrying such firearms. The National Rifle Association trumpeted their legal success in a Monday evening post on X.
“The NRA’s world-class legal team delivered a clear, powerful argument demonstrating that Abigail Spanberger’s gun ban is a blatant constitutional infringement on the rights of law-abiding Virginians,” NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford said in a statement released by the gun-rights group.
The Virginia General Assembly approved Spanberger’s proposed amendments to a budget bill, which included the one-year delay on the “carry ban,” Monday.
Cam touched on this on Wednesday, of course, but let’s think about something here.
A so-called assault weapon ban was one of the keystones of this gun control push. Now, Spanberger had to push for a delay in implementation after a judge called a halt, and by next year, the Supreme Court may already have heard arguments on the subject and be ready to issue a verdict overturning them once and for all.
At most, you’re looking at this being the law for a couple of months, and maybe not even then.
Just like everything else Spanberger has tried to push, it’s blowing up in her face. It’s glorious to behold, if for no other reason than because she blatantly misrepresented herself as a moderate, then immediately jumped to two of the most controversial issues she could find. Meanwhile, she’s still managed to alienate a lot of people on the left with some of her vetoes.
For her sake, it’s probably a good thing that governors in the Old Dominion State can’t run for consecutive terms. It means she’s got an excuse for never darkening the doors of the governor’s mansion ever again.
It’ll be even better when the courts rip all her anti-gun measures to shreds. I mean, if the feds are coming after the state, and the Civil Rights Division isn’t known for losing, it’s something to be concerned about if you’re a Virginia anti-gunner and Spanberger supporter, though I repeat myself.
While I don’t like what she’s trying to do to Virginia–a state I hold near and dear to my heart, even though I don’t live there–I do like watching everything blow up in her face like this.
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