Brief analysis on Virginia facing gun confiscation in 2020.
Virginia residents may soon learn the reality of 2A "resistance to tyranny." They have guns, but without the power of the State--that is, the constituent states of our Union--they are virtually useless. Contrary to libertarians and the like, the Founders intended the People's private arms to be used in conjunction with the several States against FEDERAL tyranny. Note James Madison's words from Federalist 46: "Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." Modern counties and cities can try to play that role, but in our country states reign over them. Sheriffs and police chiefs "resisting" can be replaced. And even if not ...