highdesert wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 3:40 pm
Virginia Citizens Defense League which has been pushing the VA 2A Sanctuary movement are planning a Lobby Day Rally on 1/20/2020.
https://www.vcdl.org
VA jumped into action while CA snoozed years ago and slowly we lost 2A rights. Go Virginia!
Careful who you ally yourself with. I knew I recognized that guy. Cleave criticizes the NRA for not being far right enough on guns. He and his group will make sure that anti-2A voters show up en masse in 2020:
‘Make bang bang’: Virginia gun-rights lobbyist duped into promoting pistols for tots
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vi ... story.html
Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, was among numerous public figures pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen on his new series “Who Is America?” The creator of Borat and Ali G, characters who conduct outrageous interviews with unsuspecting politicians, burned up social media on Sunday with footage of current and former members of Congress speaking enthusiastically of arming children.
But no one went further than Van Cleave, who appeared with Cohen — who was disguised as an Israeli security expert named Col. Erran Morad — in a Nickelodeon-style segment called “Kinderguardians.”
Holding a “Puppy Pistol” toy, which looks like a pistol inserted into a stuffed dog, Van Cleave explains how to load an ammunition clip: “To feed him, take his lunch box and push it into his tummy like this. Just remember to point Puppy Pistol’s mouth right at the middle of the bad man. If he has a big fat tummy, point at that.”
That’s one of several “Gunimals” toys that Van Cleave and the stone-faced Cohen tout for youngsters, along with “Gunny Rabbit” — “He’s ready to put the naughty man on a very long timeout,” Van Cleave says — and “Dino-gun,” which, Van Cleave warns, “eats and spits his candy really, really fast.”
Van Cleave holds a pink teddy bear called BFF — for Best Firearm Forever — which contains a handgun with a string attached to the trigger. “Pull the string on a bad guy,” Van Cleave says. “Make bang bang.”
Van Cleave wrongly says Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican
https://www.politifact.com/virginia/sta ... -jr-was-r/
Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, which organized the rally, disparaged the Democratic Party as the party of gun control. He then uttered what he said was a little-known fact:
"We’re here on a holiday, and this holiday is Martin Luther King’s birthday, right? Somebody who fought for civil rights to bring people to be equal," Van Cleave said. "Let me ask you a question. What party was he with? He was a Republican."
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt