WTVR: LIVE UPDATES: Thousands expected at gun-rights rally in Richmond

[Mike 03]

This local news website will be live updating throughout the day.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond is bracing for the expected arrival of thousands of gun-rights activists and other groups that have vowed to descend on Richmond to protest Democrats’ plans to pass gun-control legislation. Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary state of emergency days ahead of the rally, banning all weapons including guns from Capitol Square, where the event was set to be held. Scroll down for live updates.

Link: https://wtvr.com/2020/01/20/gun-rights-rally-richmond-virginia/

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I sincerely hope this situation remains peaceful.

[dewsgirl]

1. Me too, I worry about the organized nature of this.

I have seen many terrifying comments about plans they have, I am praying those are trolls and bots.

[pwb]

2. One big guy and many tiny tiny dicks. Nothing to fear here.

Little fake brave man.

[OKNancy]

3. Scary

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[C_U_L8R]

4. Rootin. Tootin. And armed to the teeth.

What could go wrong. That place is one truck backfire away from all out mayhem.

[demmiblue]

5. JJ MacNab: I've started a Twitter list for Monday's gun rally in Richmond. Anyone can subscribe...

I've started a Twitter list for Monday's gun rally in Richmond. Anyone can subscribe to watch the events live. https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/lists

For those unfamiliar with my lists, I try to find 15-25 Twitter accounts of journalists/attendees/participants who are on scene and who are actively posting pictures, videos, and commentary about what they see.

If you watch the list posts, you'll get a kind of cool, unedited mosaic of the events taking place.

There are a few reporters already in Richmond posting pics and such. https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/lists

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[Mike 03]

6. Valuable.

I wanted to follow this on twitter but don't want to see the extreme rhetoric that's in so many posts. This is a good place to go.

[Mike 03]

8. Are we automatically subscribed when we log in, or is there something we have to do?

Oh, I get it. You have to click on her post and then you see the tweets.

This is excellent, fast moving.

[blaze]

12. Great link demmiblue! Thanks! nt

[malaise]

7. Why don't they have the balls to call it what it is -

a we hate Martin Luther King and all African-Americans rally

[Mike 03]

9. THIS

Unfortunately, I don't see any other way to interpret this, despite all their excuses and rationalizations.

[malaise]

10. Fugging cowards

[Iliyah]

11. agreed . . .

[Docreed2003]

14. So fucking true!

[Mike 03]

13. Local scanner channels

Source: Broadcastify

Richmond City Fire Dispatch: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/24242

Primary VHF Frequency for Lobby Day (Amateur Radio): https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/31932

This second channel, although currently the most-listened to frequency on Broadcastify, has had no discernible audio traffic as long as I've been listening. Not sure of its value.

[Docreed2003]

15. My best friend had to go through this crap to get to work today

He's a physician. He said it's nuts in Richmond right now, so much so he packed tourniquets just in case. This shit is just insane.

[Mike 03]

16. Still early, but here's the low point so far in terms of protestors:

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Or maybe this is an anti-Trump protester. Sometimes it's hard to tell!

[Mike 03]

17. Dirtbag Alex Jones is here.

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[demmiblue]

22. Oh glorious day I found the infowars "tank"

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[Bettie]

18. Now all the right wingers are saying

that "it's all Antifa, they're wearing MAGA hats and carrying gunz to make us look bad".

Remember when being against Fascists was the default setting?

[Cosmocat]

20. Just saw a meme on Facebook

bizarre "I live in Richmond and from a VERY reliable source heard that there are 7 buses of Antifa people dressed in Maga and NRA gear coming in at the same time that there are going to be hundreds of liberal counter protesters, the Antifa are going to attack and beat up the counter protesters to cast blame on us!. Be careful out there!"

I mean ... You gotta revel in the stupid to hop on board with this shit.

[UniteFightBack]

19. I hope everybody there gets along! Men, tempers, guns...no problems! nt

[demmiblue]

21. It's like being back in Iraq, only no one knows how to use the weapons!

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[maryellen99]

23. Why aren't they working?

Let me guess they are committing SSDI fraud.

[smirkymonkey]

24. +1000

That would explain the masks.

[jmg257]

25. Holiday today? Many people have off, i think. nt

[Newest Reality]

26. It is not often that you see...

It is not often that you get to see a Potential Domestic Terrorists Convention. We usually have to tune into the Middle-East for those kinds of rallies.

There is nothing like a huge heard of promiscuous gun toters, (as per the head of the NRA in the early 20th-century) with automatic weapons to kill the luster and subvert the meaning of an an amendment in our Constitution. Well, they shoot themselves in the foot literally and figuratively sometimes. This is not the way to promote their cause, IMHO. I think, nationally, it has quite the opposite effect.

[jmg257]

28. So far it seems like just a whole lot of people milling around, wearing stickers,

and taking selfies.

[handmade34]

27. I hope

lots of Darwin awards passed out today!!

oh my, I didn't really say that

[C_U_L8R]

29. Live weapon cosplay

These dorks do love to play dress-up. Can't wait 'til they take their incel poutrage back to their mama's basement.