Imagine going 116 mph and being pulled over by a Va State Trooper while you’re a member of the House of Delegates at 1am after a party, avoiding mandatory jail time, then turning in 500 hours of “community service” for your own political action committee before tweeting “nobody is above accountability.”
Since the establishment is already mad at me, here’s another truth…Virginia Democrats are completely wrong on the Second Amendment.
After facing a personal safety issue, I got a gun.
It made me realize how extreme our party’s stance has become. Dan Helmer’s (loser) July 1st ban literally classifies regular handguns as “assault firearms” so the government can take them away.
The founders wrote the 2A to protect us from tyranny…whether that tyranny comes from Donald Trump or a state legislature trying to disarm you.
Our right to protect ourselves shall not be infringed
@mpenzo82@majtoure@scrowder A rebarreled Mauser with unknown tightness to start, couple in possible years of corrosive ammo usage. Leaves you with the equivalent of a mosin nagant.
@majtoure@ajdh719@LibertyLockPod It’s gotta be a high miss off the plate carrier. Shooter inexperienced and aimed for center mass, not knowing plate was there. + anticipated recoil (heeling in pistol terms) and/or combo of lifting head to see impact pushed the firearm down, lifting the POI.
It was your “honor” to deliver a personal message, Congressman. Now it’s my duty to deliver one in return. Just as personal, but far more grave. Not for show. Not for spectacle. But to dissuade you, and anyone watching, from the dangerous theater you’ve just made public. Harken to me.
There was a time in our nation’s history when citizens rode out with picnic baskets to watch the First Battle of Bull Run. They thought it would be quick. Clean. Dignified, even. They came to watch war as spectacle. By sundown, they were running for their lives, caught in a rout they didn’t understand.
Congressman Fitzpatrick, you were in Iraq the same time I was. During the surge (07-09 tour). You may not have worn a uniform, but you were there as an FBI agent. You saw the smoke. The blood. The broken young men who never came home whole.
You should know better.
Instead, we see you in Ukraine, personally firing a munition. The world was made to believe it was in combat. Yet your vague disclaimer suggests it was likely a range. A stunt. A desperate ploy to score political points while wearing the mask of wartime heroism. And that… is worse.
Because history is replete with wars born from misunderstandings. One spark. One shot. One performative gesture too far, and the world tips into the abyss. Sarajevo, 1914. A single shot and the lights went out across Europe. Troy, over a woman. The Gulf of Tonkin, where a misread radar signature allegedly helped pave the way for thousands of American body bags.
All it takes is a spark. And if you dress the spark in the flag and call it courage, the fire burns hotter. But this isn’t just about one congressman. This is about what we’ve become.
America forgets. We forget the cost. We forget the graves we’ve already dug. That’s why the same spirit that drives a politician to fire a weapon for the camera is the same spirit that says, “We don’t need to train with bayonets anymore.” It’s the spirit that says, “War is clean now, clinical. Waged by drones and speeches and hashtags."
But war is never clean. Ask the amputee in a VA hospital who still hears the mortars in his sleep. Ask the parents whose son was in a convoy that didn’t make it back.
We have fewer veterans in Congress now than at any point in modern history. The result? A civilian class of leaders who’ve never tasted war, now playing at it like children with matches. But what makes this especially damning is you, Congressman. You have tasted it. You were in the fire once. You should be the one warning others not to touch the flame. And yet here you are… stoking it. There is still time to turn back. But know this:
The abyss does not care about your intentions. Once the shell leaves the tube, there is no edit button. Once the domino falls, history does what it always does. It devours the naïve and buries the proud.
If you wanted to send a message, Congressman, you have. And so will I:
Do not romanticize war. Do not mimic what you have not mastered. And do not dare unleash fire and blood if you are not ready to be consumed by it.
not to trauma dump or anything but during the boston tea party, i was actually thrown into the boston harbor because they thought my body was tea. it was really scary. i almost drowned.
@Mkeg54@CSonofhutch@RobProvince Be careful switching homeowners unless you have a newer roof. Lots of companies are requiring shingles under 15 years old to start a new policy