Virginia’s central argument is that Article I, Section 13 of the Virginia Constitution is not an individual Second Amendment-style right at all. According to the Commonwealth, Section 13 is a “collective, militia-tethered right,” meaning the right to keep and bear arms is tied to militia service rather than individual self-defense. [More]
There is no new thing under the sun.
And Opposite Day “progressives” keep coming back with the same tired, old, debunked revisionist lies.
The fact that the “Virginia Declaration of Rights” of 1776’s Section 13 language, which Spanberger’s administration has the guts to quote in full in their brief, is the prototype for the Bill of Rights’ of 1789, and for all of the similar language in just about every colony’s or state’s founding documents in between, doesn’t escape them.
They know damn well what the founders meant, they just fundamentally disagree with them.
It’s called willful ignorance.
They’re pretty sure they can get away with all of that because they’re pretty sure we will let them.
So the question becomes: “Will we?”.
The only ignorance is on the part of the voters.