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The owner of a local tree care business in Roanoke, Virginia, who was severely injured on the job, is getting a little bit of help from some members of his community — including his competitors.

The Second Amendment Sanctuary movement is picking up steam once again as counties in North Carolina declare they have no intention of enforcing new controls that infringe on gun rights.

Abortion giants Planned Parenthood and NARAL expressed pride and gratitude to the new Democrat majority in Virginia who approved bills in the House and Senate to roll back abortion restrictions this week.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) praised the passage of seven gun control bills in Virginia’s House of Delegates on Thursday.

Virginia State Sen. Lynwood Lewis (D) is taking a path that differs from that of Governor Ralph Northam (D) by vowing no support for gun or magazine bans.

Governor Jim Justice (R) on Tuesday invited Virginia counties weighed down by Democrat gun control to secede from the Old Dominion and become part of West Virginia.

During his January 28, 2020, rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, President Donald Trump referenced the Democrat gun control push in Virginia and made clear that gun confiscation is not happening on his watch.

The Southern States Police Benevolent Group, Inc., released a January 24, statement opposing Governor Ralph Northam’s (D) gun grab.

Arizona State Reps. Leo Biasiucci (R-5), Walt Blackman (R-6), and Frank Carroll (R-22) are pushing legislation to nullify any gun control that infringes on the Second Amendment.

Virginia Delegate Mark Levine (D) is pushing a ban on “assault weapons” but cannot define what such a weapon actually is.

The House of Delegates’ Public Safety Committee on Friday passed a firearm store law and a bill limiting the number of handguns Virginians can purchase, among other gun controls.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that after the Virginia gun rally ended peacefully, “you could see how disappointed the media was that the Civil War didn’t break out.” After former FNC and NBC host

A police officer died after she was dragged by a suspect’s car following a traffic stop in Newport News, Virginia, on Thursday. 

Ammunition sales are surging as Virginians seek to stock up ahead of a slew of Democrat-mandated gun controls for the state.

Restaurant owner and Virginia Second Amendment rally attendee Lauren Boebert made clear, “Gun right are absolutely women’s rights.”

A day after thousands attended Virginia’s Second Amendment rally State Sen. Scott Surovell (D-Fairfax) was quoted saying, “We are in charge now” and signaling full speed ahead for gun control.

Virginia Democrat lawmakers are pushing ahead with Red Flag Law legislation just days after thousands of gun owners rallied for the Second Amendment.

Following Governor Ralph Northam’s (D) temporary ban against gun possession on Virginia Capitol grounds the state’s Democrat lawmakers are ready to take up a permanent ban on guns in Capitol Square as early as today.

In a sit-down interview with Maria Bartiromo which aired Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” President Donald Trump said Virginia is “in play” for him to win in 2020.

Black Guns Matter founder Maj Tour told Breitbart News that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s gun control proposals are “tyrannical” and “racist.”

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden responded to the diverse thousands of Virginia Second Amendment supporters by endorsing the view of 13 activists labeling Virginia attendees “white supremacists.”

Gun control activist David Hogg continued “white supremacy” allegations against Second Amendment rally attendees hours after the rally ended without incident. 

Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam suggested that the security decisions made regarding the Virginia Capitol grounds “de-escalated” a situation, even though no escalation preceded it.

New York state feels like occupied territory if you support gun rights, a pro-gun activist said during the Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday.

The mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer criticized some of the gun controls being pushed by Virginia Democrats as “extreme measures.”

A pro-Second Amendment protester, when asked if he had an opportunity to speak to Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, said that he would ask him how he would not know that “blackface was not okay.”

A travel nurse attending the peaceful pro-Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday blasted lawmakers who want to impose intrusive gun laws, telling Breitbart News that she does not want her state to become a place where women “have to be disarmed when they’re driving by themselves.”

On the very day that Virginians rallied in support of gun rights, President Trump tweeted that he will never leave the Second Amendment “unprotected.”

“It’s the safest restaurant in the country,” said restaurant owner Lauren Boebert of Shooters Grill, where all waitresses open carry guns.

Left-wing actress Patricia Arquette has claimed that Monday’s assembly of Second Amendment supporters in Richmond, Virginia, descended into “anarchy,” despite reports that there was no violence at the event.

An activist attending the pro-Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday said that Gov. Ralph Northam cannot compare the rally — filled with “peaceful people” — to Charlottesville.

An attendee of Monday’s Second Amendment rally in Virginia slammed NBC News’s Ben Collins for originally smearing the event as a “white nationalist rally,” blasting those on the left for attempting to paint Trump supporters as “neo-Nazis and white supremacists” and adding that they “want another Charlottesville.”

Stephen Willeford, the hero who ended the November 5, 2017, Texas church shooting with an AR-15, spoke at the January 20, 2020, Virginia 2A rally in opposition to an AR-15 ban.

NBC News reporter Ben Collins deleted a January 19 tweet in which he referred to the then-pending Virginia 2A event as a “white nationalist rally.”

“Every news piece you’ve seen on this… have brought up the issue of race as though it’s nothing but white rednecks and hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment,” said a Second Amendment activist, who was standing outdoors in 26 degrees Fahrenheit temperature Monday morning in Richmond, Virginia, to protest against Governor Ralph Northam and the state Democrats’ push for comprehensive gun control.

Thousands of Virginians, as well as other Americans, will be in Richmond Monday for the Virginia Citizens Defense League’s (VCDL) pro-Second Amendment rally.