Virginia’s only socialist state legislator said he has been the target of multiple death threats over a bill that pro-gun activists misinterpreted as a potential threat to their rights. But some gun rights activists wrongly interpreted it as an attempt to fire law enforcement officials who might refuse to comply with gun control laws introduced by Virginia’s new Democratic legislative majority. It was designed to repeal current Virginia law, which bars all public employees from striking, a policy that has been on the books since at least the 1950s, he said. But when some gun rights activists read the bill, they claimed it meant something entirely different. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A gun rights activist outside the Virginia state capitol building as the general assembly prepares to convene in Richmond, 8 January 2020.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2020 19:18 UTC