Sunday, March 24, 2013
One of our Virginia bloggers describes a bizarre encounter with a man carrying a gun in a coffee shop. What would you do if it happened to you?
Every Tuesday, a group of four to 10 retired women gather at a coffee shop in Reston for a knitting group. This week, they were joined by a stranger with a gun. In a blog post on Patch, one of those women recounted how the young man offered to buy one of her friends coffee at the register, and when she declined, he followed her over to the group. After asking what brought him to the shop — "I'm livin'," he said — the blogger noticed a handgun strap by the man's right leg. On its own, the gun didn't bother the group, the blogger wrote: She herself won a sharp-shooting medal in high school, and the man eventually said he was heading to the shooting range. But his behavior, she said — seemingly provoking the women for a reaction to the weapon…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Northern Virginia lawmakers will likely introduce or reintroduce gun bills at 2013 legislative session. Is this the year some of them will pass?
In the wake of Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Virginia Sen. Janet Howell (D-Reston) says she will reintroduce a bill that would close the commonwealth's gun show loophole, which allows people to buy firearms at gun shows without a background check. "It's tragic," Howell says about the shooting that killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults. "I don't know whether I'm more angry or sad over it. I have introduced this bill in the past, and so have other people, but I'm hopeful there will be a better chance of passage this year." Closing the gun show loophole is among several gun bills in Virginia that repeatedly have been introduced and died in committee or are otherwise defeated. There are already …
Monday, April 2, 2012
Sen. Janet Howell writes about the pushback pro-gun legislation received from lawmakers
Virginians want politicians who support strong gun laws, state Sen. Janet Howell (D-32nd District) wrote in an opinion for The Washington Post. "Citizens across the commonwealth want responsible gun laws and will support, not punish, politicians who work to reduce trafficking," she wrote. Howell writes about how the General Assembly may have repealed the one-gun-a-month law during this year's legislative session, but it does not mean advocates of stricter gun laws should lose all optimism. "First, while plenty of pundits thought that the gun lobby would have carte blanche in Virginia this session, there was a remarkable level of pushback from both sides of the aisle," she wrote, noting bills that would have allowed guns on college campuses…
T-Bird
10:20 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013
Oh, I see. You equate the struggle for civil liberties as "bending the rules" by your boogeyman "liberals". Again, you miss the concept of context. Their disdain for "government" was a function of their experience and history up to that time, and not a judgment of our current form of government, Which, by the way, no matter how much you want to disparage it, it is one of the best in history. Oh, … more ›