An LSA Member Marches in Richmond, Virginia

By Charlie Chambers

On Monday, January 20, 2020, tens of thousands of great people joined in unity for the peaceful Lobby for your Rights Day in Richmond, Virginia. Despite reports by legacy media outlets of violence and cold weather, vehicles from several states parked along the cobblestone streets of Richmond to attend the nonviolent petition to our Government. Vehicles lined from Bank Street by the Capitol Building of Virginia to the James River Shockoe Bottom historic district. The people of Virginia clearly fell asleep prior to the election and now they’re trying to stop a flood of anti-right gun control policies. Good luck with that in the short-term.

Being surrounded by so many well-armed citizens was an incredible experience: a great one. As one article headline read, it was “The Civil Rights March of Our Time.”  It was upbeat, cheerful, diverse and worrisome. Worrisome in that so many pro-right Virginians did not show up to vote and get engaged with groups like VCDL (Virginia Citizens Defense League) in an ongoing fight to protect their Rights.

Virginia is not the only State guilty of the sin of not protecting our preexisting enumerated Rights.  I’m guilty as well and I’m trying to make up for my sins of “not showing up for so long”and not cutting through the media propaganda of gun control. I had no clue until I came across a Louisiana great, Tom Gresham and his Gun Talk Radio™ (GTR) in 2013 after I moved back to North Carolina from Boston.  After living in the great City of Boston, I craved more knowledge about firearms and the Second Amendment. Tom quickly become my “Spiritual Advisor of All Things Second Amendment Related.” The scales quickly fell from my eyes. As you read from Dan Zelenka’s article about the “Gun Rights Policy Conference 2019” (GRPC) by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF.org) it is not only an awakening, it is a great source of “Intellectual Ammo,” fun and will turn you into an effective Diplomat and Warrior to protect our Rights.

Back in Virginia, during the Lobby, I thought about all of the great people introduced to me in my Second Amendment Journey by GTR, GRPC, my own States’ GRNC.org and all the diverse groups tied in with Alan Gottleib’s Second Amendment Foundation.  I also thought about the years I lived and worked in Charlottesville, Culpeper and Orange, Virginia with several visits to Richmond.  In all of those years, Virginia didn’t feel like it was under attack; it was, but I wasn’t “Red Pilled.”  The January 20th, Lobby was certainly a defense put up by Pro-Right Americans under a well-funded Anti-Right Bloomberg attack.

If you do not attend or engage in Pro-Right Second Amendment Events and Lobbies, you should if you want future generations to experience our Freedoms.  If you already engage, please do more. As Tom recommends, spend twenty minutes a day in learning more about Second Amendment News, calling and writing your Representatives, donating a few dollars to your local Gun Right Groups and taking the uninitiated to a Gun Range.  It is the best inoculation to the gun control media’s lies.

If you get a chance to see Richmond and walk the streets of the Lobby, please do.  James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange, VA is not far from Richmond.  Walk the steps of Father of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is an education in why we have the Second Amendment.  Hanging out with people smarter and better than you in that walk will only help you lean in that direction. You will be more effective and helpful just the like the folks who Lobbied in Richmond… Just do it ex ante versus ex post facto.

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Competitive shooter, hunter, fisherman, pilot, vizsla servant, father, son, scientist, and lover of Civil Rights.

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