McDonnell ends ban on guns in Va state parks

[shadowrider]

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Bob McDonnell has ordered an immediate end to a ban on firearms carried openly in Virginia state parks.

The Republican governor ordered Conservation and Recreation Department Director David Johnson to stop enforcing the ban in a letter sent Friday.

McDonnell also gave initial approval to another administrative change allowing firearms to be carried openly in state forests.

Concealed handgun permit holders were already free to carry firearms. The right to openly carry guns is widely recognized across Virginia.

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[Katya Mullethov]

1. You dont say

More freedoms restored ? This is becoming quite the habit .

[Hoyt]

2. Won't be taking any kids to Va. Don't want them to see questionable armed characters parading around

He's a big confederate nut too. Guess guns and confederate flags are on his agenda.

[Katya Mullethov]

3. We like to use the term "prancing about"

[shadowrider]

4. I can't see who you're referring to because of this feature thingy DU has

but I'm sure it was an intelligent, well thought out, meticulously worded retort to your initial comment.

[Katya Mullethov]

8. Do you guys tend more towards parading or prancing over that way ?

I guess there really is a difference .

[shadowrider]

9. Parading or prancing, ppfffffffft. Try strutting, it's good for the soul n/t

[Katya Mullethov]

11. Strutting , parading , same thing

I can think of no one single thing that has caused so much change on the face of competitive shooting like modern interpretive dance . I trace it to the influx of money concurrent with the advent of cable shooting sports programming . That and Jim Zumbo . That man can fire in the en pointe position for an hour without getting wiggly .

[DonP]

5. We're assuming you'll be bringing the kids to the south side of Chicago. It's a gun free zone.

It's so much fun and safe for you with no carry allowed, open or concealed.

You'll have a lot of fun visiting our friendly neighborhoods with our police superintendent Jody Weiss as your guide. If he hears any gunfire though, he runs away.

[Hoyt]

6. Guns and confederate flags in public is just too much hatred for me.

[Katya Mullethov]

7. All that prancing certainly does tend to lighten the mood though

Go on ! Give it a try !

[lawodevolution]

12. Correction: gun control laws and confederate flags

[friendly_iconoclast]

14. Aww, you poor thing. I have some nice pictures that I'm sure will make you feel all better:

And some say we're lacking in empathy...

[Hoyt]

15. Except the Gubnor is a confederate sympathizer. I'm for equal -- and minimal -- gun rights for all

I'll agree the KKK sympathizers were all for restricting guns -- among real civil rights -- to minorities to keep them subservient. But, that's not the case today (well, let's hope not). Too many of the pro-gunners use that ruse here, and will use any rationale to keep guns preserving/expanding guns in public.

[friendly_iconoclast]

17. Since you mentioned governors, you might look again at the last three photos.

The Panthers were protesting the Mulford Act - with loaded weapons, no less.


The Mulford Act (which banned openly carried loaded weapons) came about due to the Black Panthers' habitual

practice of patrolling African-American neighborhoods with loaded shotguns. Being the 1960s in California, this did

not go over too well with much of the less-melanin endowed members of the electorate, and so the Mulford Act was

passed by the Legislature and signed into law by that well-known and much beloved progressive Ronald Reagan.


It would seem the neocons are all hat and no cattle on the issue, as witness Darth Cheney's recent bloviating.

[beevul]

16. I'm disapointed, no "festooned"...

I'm disapointed, you had an opportunity to use the word "festooned", and you blew it.

[shadowrider]

10. Every time we turn around, we win, they lose

Ain't it great?

:D

[lawodevolution]

13. Another butt kicking, the 2A is being restored one step at a time.