Let Virginia be the warning to every gun owner in America. If democrats get control again the second amendment will be under the worst threat in our nation's history.
The same people that use violence, intimidation, open borders, lawlessness, needle exchanges are coming for your guns next.
But who are they [totalitarian Democrats] going to send to confiscate them?
There are not enough police and vast majority (all of them) of police men and women want to go home to their families at the end of the day.
Probably most of them would not be very enthusiastic about trying to strip their fellow citizens of their constitutional rights and have to engage in firefights with them to do so. Is their paycheck really worth that in the end - as well as being viewed as the very worst kind of traitor by their fellow citizenry? Most police (except those in the most corrupt blue cities) are not likely to even follow through on such orders - why not just quit and go look for employment in a better place?
The Democrats in Virginia think that the National Guard is going to do their bidding. That's even way more problematic (for them) than mobilizing the police to do their bidding.
Military personnel all swear an oath to defend the constitution from both foreign and domestic enemies. In this case it's crystal clear that the enemy to the constitution is a domestic one - those that are out to take away constitutional rights of citizens.
Many (probably most) NG are going to be some of the very citizens that these tyrannical Democrats are out to target to strip constitutional rights from. (Yeah, sure, mobilize the National Guard and issue them all M-16s. Heeh, heeh...)
So really, if they try to get the Virginia state National Guard to turn on fellow citizens, what is more likely to happen is that the rank and file (and probably even the top level command) will side with the citizenry at large. Sure, arm them all up with M-16s - that would be great!
In fact, I suspect that top level command structure of the National Guard would go to Pres. Trump and ask him to intervene by nationalizing the Virginia National Guard and thereby preempting the governor's authority over them. That would be the logical thing to try and contain things from getting messy, so to speak. They would be rational and understand that carrying out these confiscation orders is shear insanity. The Democrats, being died-in-the-wool communist ideologues, are very short on having any actual sanity. They are basically sociopaths mentally disconnected from the real world.
So their [totalitarian Democrats] only plausible option is to bring in foreign military to do their bidding. That would so not be a very smart thing for them to try and do. (Massive understatement!) That would galvanize a vast swath of the American people completely against them instantly. Plus would give Pres. Trump a pretext to use the US military to go in and arrest them all.
Even non gun owners would have a problem with this. Imagine having armed military personnel in armored vehicles patrolling your neighborhood looking to get into shootouts with your neighbors. That wouldn't play over well at all.
Okay, but who's going to volunteer to be in the shootout with cops? Almost nobody.
Trump needs to disarm the Virginia National Guard. The message their Commander put out was not encouraging for citizens' rights (see Breitbart). It is also posted on Twitter. The SCOTUS will have to rule on this, and stop states from taking away citizens' rights.