Last May, I wrote a lengthy column focusing on an organization of slightly lunatic gun-worshippers in Virginia who go by the muscular-sounding name "The Virginia Citizen's Defense League" (because you never know when you might need to repel an invasion by Maryland)(Automatics for the People/5.18.07).
At the time, the group was holding an entirely ill-advised gun giveaway, which, to the untrained eye, looked like little more than a surreal, heavily-armed frat party. Thing is, they did this just one month after the Virginia Tech Shooting -- while many of the victims' family-members protested quietly outside.
After publishing my little diatribe, I was contacted by the Grand Poobah of the Virginia Citizen's Defense League -- a guy named Phillip Van Cleave -- which of course led me to write yet another column (Blow Back/6.21.07).
I bring all of this up because yesterday an almost laughably sensible gun-control bill was signed into law in the wake of the V-Tech massacre -- and Virginia's governor is finally proposing that background checks be made mandatory for those buying weapons at gun shows.
Bottom line: My new best friends at the VCDL aren't going to be happy.
Tough shit, boys.
(Newsday.com: Bush Signs Long-Stalled Gun Control Legislation/1.9.08)
(AP: Virginia Governor Proposes Gun Show Sales Checks/1.8.08)
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