Virginia Governor Admits His Gun Control Proposals Wouldn’t Have Prevented Shootings

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam admitted his much-ballyhooed call for a special legislative session isn’t about contributing to public safety. For him, it’s about scoring cheap political points, attempting to emerge from his own scandals and pushing an extreme gun control agenda Virginians have rejected time and again, including this legislative session in Richmond.

Northam confessed to 762 high school seniors visiting Radford University that none of his gun control proposals would have prevented the tragic murders in Virginia Beach. Instead, he peddled half-truths, tired rhetoric, and misallocated blame upon millions of law-abiding Virginians.

Northam pitched his gun control agenda to a mock legislative assembly of high schoolers. Interestingly, they showed more intellectual curiosity and interest in real solutions that reflect Virginia’s values over embracing the far-left’s agenda of disarming Americans. The inquisitive students asked the governor how any of the governor’s ideas would have stopped the murderer. His answer was less-than-placating. For him, it’s about the “bigger picture.”

Northam’s vision is to criminalize the private transfer of firearms from one individual to another; limit gun sales to once per month; banning modern sporting rifles, suppressors, and standard-capacity magazines; subjecting victims of firearms theft to criminal charges if they fail to report the crime against them; and expanding “gun-free zones” like Virginia Beach’s city public works building where a shooting took place when an employee ignored the no-gun policy and murdered his co-workers.

Northam touts his gun control agenda with language that sounds meaningful but in reality it will do nothing to contribute to public safety. The governor is demanding universal background checks but refuses to acknowledge that the Virginia Beach murderer twice passed federally required criminal background checks for the two handguns he purchased.