As Congressman Cline surely knows, none of the bills introduced in the Virginia General Assembly would require the confiscation of anyone’s guns. But here he is enabling Donald Trump’s scaremongering shortly before what is sure to be a tense day in Richmond on Monday.
A more responsible statement came from House of Delegates Republican leader Todd Gilbert.
Cline could have said something like that. But he seems only interested in pandering to what he imagines is his base.