Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

Oh anything is possible, but that is not the point. My issue is that the media will only tell it like a verbal confrontation gone bad. This will support their rivers of blood in the streets crap. Regardless of how we all feel about our rights this kind of crap makes it increasingly difficult to defe...

Well here is a beauty. Today in Norfolk two men in a Rite Aid appearently get in an argument and pull out guns and shoot each other. This is just the sort of thing that gets the gun grabbers going. I get outraged when I hear this kind of stuff. This then: The DC shooting, The Louisanna shooting It i...

@tenchcoxe Well this has been a great conversation. I just read the proposed bill that mk4 led me too and that is exactly the kind of legislation I am talking about. It is very clear and quite comprehensive. I would fully support that bill. I do agree with you that codifying common law can go bad if...

@gearup... there is actually more than case law in va pertaining to the castle defense doctrine. it's spelled out in va common law, which as understand it, is incorporated into the statutes of the commonwealth. now, cases have been decided on that common law and are the legal precedent for cases th...

[quote="TenchCoxe The police evidently disagreed with you - the officers charged with enforcing the law determined they did not have probable cause to arrest him because of the stand your ground law. So now he's going to trial so a jury can decide what happened and whether his actions constitut...

I disagree. Case Law, in this case is ALL there is to determine guilt. Judicial OPINIONS from decades of cases from individuals. Since there is no "statute" to govern these cases judges must discern guilt based off precedent. Problem with this is that one individual can set into motion a ...

Florida has statute "stand your ground" law and obviously it isn't helping to clarify anything. [ Post made via Mobile Device ] http://vagunforum.net/images/mobile.png Actually, It explaines it VERY well. Right now we are all looking to the Zimmerman case. As far as I am concerned he is G...

Case law is not used to discern guilt. Case law provides the legal standard - the facts and circumstances of the individual case are used to discern guilt. And yes, when you're dealing with a jury, it's always guilt by opinion - the jury's opinion as to whether they believe your account of the even...

Major contradiction? The overt act could include threatening with a rubber knife or replica gun and still afford one a claim of justifiable homicide. [ Post made via Mobile Device ] http://vagunforum.net/images/mobile.png Yes there really is a very grave contradiction as far as I am concerned. An &...

Very new here, but I hope this sheds SOME light............ VIRGINIA LAW ON SELF-DEFENSE Self-defense in Virginia is an affirmative defense, the absence of which is not an element of murder. In making this plea a defendant implicitly admits the killing was intentional and assumes the burden of intro...

New to the community. Just wanted to say hi and I hope to be able to learn and contribute.