We hoped that last night--which many argued would be a preview of the midterms--would yield some positive results for pro-gun candidates in Virginia and New Jersey.
Among other matters, that is.
Unfortunately, what we've seen is something very, very different.
In Virginia, anti-gun Democrats ran the table, with Abigail Spanberger taking the governor's race over pro-gun Winsome Earle-Sears, Ghazala Hashmi winning the lieutenant governor's race, and even Jay Jones becoming the next attorney general even after texts emerged showing him wishing death on a lawmaker and wondering if the murders of the legislator's children would get him to support gun control..
It seems that Virginia voters didn't really care all that much about Jones fantasizing about the death of his rivals and their children and being really flippant about it.
All three candidates are pretty anti-gun, and none of them won by slim margins, either. Jones had the closest race, and he still won with a more than six-point margin of victory.
In New Jersey, anti-gun Democrat Mikie Sherrill beat pro-gun Jack Ciattarelli. In fact, Ciattarelli seems to have fared worse against Sherrill than he did against outgoing Gov. Phil Murphy.
Of course, we also have to note that New York City elected Zohran Mamdani, who has previously called for a total ban on all firearms, which isn't exactly something designed to make anyone feel warm and tingly inside, either. You know, the guy who wants to abolish prisons, to let criminals walk free, and to make sure no one has any means with which to defend themselves from those criminals.
So what gives? Is gun control the wave of the future here? Across the nation, pro-gun candidates seemed to lose. The pro-Second Amendment position didn't do well at all anywhere, it seems. Is this where we're going?
Maybe, but maybe not.
Yes, all of these losses are less than great. To be frank, they're terrible for gun rights in their respective states. That won't make a big difference in New Jersey--they were mostly hoping to get out from under the insanity of the last eight years--but it's still not an ideal solution either way you cut it, and Virginia's are outright bad for people who live there. (Sorry, Cam.)
Gov. Glenn Youngkin was pretty quiet about gun rights issues when he ran for office four years ago, but he's been pretty solid on the Second Amendment while in the governor's mansion. He's held the line as best he could and done a decent job. Unfortunately, now Spanberger is coming in, and she's made no bones about her agenda on gun rights.
New Jersey will be more of the same.
And the result will be the taxpayers having to pay for endless lawsuits as officials try to curtail the right to keep and bear arms, and gun rights organizations are forced to step up and challenge them in order to preserve our civil liberties.
Because even if you don't live in these states, the fact that you might someday travel through them means they impact you, to say nothing of your state's own homegrown anti-gun jihadists deciding to follow the lead of these states.
It's going to be a very long four years for folks in Virginia; the nightmare continues in New Jersey; and New York City is likely to go further down the drain.
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