Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones isn't having the best week ever. As Cam noted on Monday, Jones apparently wanted to shoot a political rival. Virginia Democrats are sticking with Jones, of course.
However, Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert wasn't the only one Jones wanted dead. In addition to Gilbert's children, apparently, he also wanted to see a lot of police officers die.
Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones, who sent text messages to a state lawmaker in 2022 about shooting a GOP colleague, also told the lawmaker that police might "move on" and "stop shooting people" if "a few of them died," according to a Virginia Scope report.
Virginia house Rep. Carrie Coyner (R.) told Virginia Scope that during a "heated" phone call about qualified immunity for police officers, Jones said, "Well, maybe if a few of them died, that they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people." Coyner argued that qualified immunity—which shields officers from personal liability in their line of duty—protects the public by allowing police to make split-second decisions. Jones, she said, believed that ending the protection would force officers to "act differently" and reduce the number of people killed by police.
Jones on Monday denied Coyner’s claim, telling Virginia Scope in a statement, "I did not say this. I have never believed and do not believe that any harm should come to law enforcement, period."
Coyner made the revelation when Virginia Scope asked her what Jones meant in a 2022 text message that read, "Yes, I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy," after talking about shooting his Republican colleague, Todd Gilbert, and wishing for the death of Gilbert's children.
Now, this happened in a voice conversation, so there's no way to prove it one way or another, but considering the fact that Coyner's text back to Jones suggests his desire to shoot Gilbert suggests, at least to me, that he had a habit of making such comments, it's not difficult to believe he did this.
And this is who Everytown is backing.
Everytown claims it's not a gun control group but a gun safety organization. They claim that the measures they support are just about public safety and that they aren't interested in taking away our Second Amendment rights.
But if that's true, then they need to do something about their endorsement of Jones, because their silence as of this writing makes it pretty damn clear to anyone who cares to look that they don't really care all that much about safety of any kind.
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— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) October 7, 2025
Jones is on the hook for expressing his preference for killing a state political rival over Pol Pot and Hitler. Think about that for a moment. I may not like some of the people on the other side of the aisle all that much, but not only do I not want to see them dead, but even if I did, there's no way I'd put them as somehow more important to shoot that Adolph Freaking Hitler.
He's allegedly said he wanted to see police officers killed in the line of duty to make them too afraid to shoot criminals, that the left would eventually lionize as folk heroes somehow.
And Everytown's silence up until now suggests at least tacit agreement with his comments.
He's admitted that he sent the texts about Gilbert. That alone should be enough for them to part ways. The allegations about the police--the people who would be enforcing anything Everytown wants should it become law--deserve to be killed because of the actions of a few.
This is who will be mentioned every time Everytown opens its mouth going forward about literally anything. I, personally, intend to hit them with Jones whenever they attack a pro-gun lawmaker over anything. They want to make out like Second Amendment legislators are bought and paid for, but they can't even distance themselves from someone who allegedly wanted to see cops killed and openly hoped for the death of a guy who just disagreed with him on politics.
They cannot defend this.
Their only hope is to part ways, revoke their endorsement, and pray that everyone forgets it before long.
The question is whether anyone there is smart enough to see that.
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