2020 HB373 pre-filed. To repeal §18.2-283 prohibiting gun carry in houses of worship.

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Virginia HB373 | 2020 | Regular Session

Bill Text (2020-02-11) Place of religious worship; carrying dangerous weapon. [Left in Public Safety]

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[ChristCrusader]

wow - gun rights bills are so much simpler and shorter in their wording than the legaleze and back flips required to restrict liberty..
"...§ 18.2-283 of the Code of Virginia is repealed. "

 

[color of law]

§ 18.2-283. Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship.

If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason, to a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place he shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

There is no case-law addressing this statute probably because of the phrase "good and sufficient reason." What does "good and sufficient reason" mean? Well there is only one case that addresses "good and sufficient reason," Day v. Grove, 142 Va. 550 - Va: Supreme Court 1925.

We cannot say the trial court erred. Its judgment is not shown to be incorrect. Every presumption is that the court had good and sufficient reason for its decision.

In the case of Harman City of Lynchburg, 35 Gratt. (74 Va.) 43, Judge Burks, speaking for the court, said: "The judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is always presumed to be right until the contrary is shown, and a party in an appellate court, alleging error in the court below, must show it in the regular way, or the presumption in favor of its correctness must prevail."

Article I Section 1:

That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

Article I Section:

That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

The preservation of life is an inalienable right and for a good and sufficient reason a prudent man would carry protection for his preservation of life.

A high bar for a prosecutor to overcome.