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I told ya so! I get frustrated when people say cops are basically pro gun

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I think some of you need to remember that Northern Virginia basically is and wants to be their own little State of Virginia. If you put 25 cops in a room, and give me 10 minutes to chat with each one individually, I can tell you which reign from the Northern State of Virginia and which reign from the regular State of Virginia.

I have only had one legal matter with the Northern State of Virginia in my life. And it honestly left me with the impression that the cops I was dealing with all had an IQ of 75 or less. This one legal matter paid me quite well, so I am not complaining as much as you might think.
 
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Sheriff said:
I think some of you need to remember that Northern Virginia basically is and wants to be their own little State of Virginia. If you put 25 cops in a room, and give me 10 minutes to chat with each one individually, I can tell you which reign from the Northern State of Virginia and which reign from the regular State of Virginia.

I have only had one legal matter with the Northern State of Virginia in my life. And it honestly left me with the impression that the cops I was dealing with all had an IQ of 75 or less. This one legal matter paid me quite well, so I am not complaining as much as you might think.
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Problem with Northern Virginians is:

Almost everybody in Northern Virginia thinks they are somebody special. Always need to be first on 66 even though cutting me off isn't going to get you to work any faster, or cut in line at the Mc Donalds.
 
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SEGRO said:
Problem with Northern Virginians is:

Almost everybody in Northern Virginia thinks they are somebody special. Always need to be first on 66 even though cutting me off isn't going to get you to work any faster, or cut in line at the Mc Donalds.
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Oh I'd say there's a touch more to it than that.
 
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Repeater said:
Here is a simple test: Do you support repeal of Virginia's radar detector ban?

1) Yes
2) No
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Off topic, but I always wondered how Virginia got away with this, as I understood Federal law prohibited anyone from making it illegal to receive or use radio signals however they wanted as long as it didn't interfere with anyone else.

Did they write an exception for radar detectors, or is Virginia just defying the feds? I know they made exceptions for cell phone signals, but that's a moot point now that everything is digital.

TFred

P.S. And by the way... it ought to scare the shorts off every legislator to know that in this one area, Virginia and DC are the only two jurisdictions that make them illegal. That fact alone should be enough to repeal it.
 
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OK, but then what did you mean with this non-sequitur?
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Not at all, but I guess I have to explain my post in other words.

Paragraph 1: I thought Federal law prohibited any state from making it illegal to receive and use radio transmissions. Sort of a "listening to the radio preemption", if you will. (The Wiki article I linked did confirm that, by the way.)

Paragraph 2 (second sentence): I noted that I thought there were exceptions to the Federal law mentioned in Paragraph 1 for cell phones, meaning that the Feds carved out specific frequencies that you may not eavesdrop because they usually carry cell phone traffic. But then I noted that the point is now moot because virtually all cell phone transmissions are digital, and thus very difficult (expensive) to intercept anyway.

A fairly logical sequence of thoughts, even if I do say so myself.

The reason your post was a non sequitur is that it restated the very same thought I had just stated in the last sentence of my second paragraph:

Me: "I know they made exceptions for cell phone signals, but that's a moot point now that everything is digital."

You: "There are certainly digitally-encoded radio signals. Cell phones come to mind."

What was the point of your post? All it did was restate a part of what I had just said.

I think the horse is dead, this is all OT anyway... but that is why I was confused.

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TFred said:
P.S. And by the way... it ought to scare the shorts off every legislator to know that in this one area, Virginia and DC are the only two jurisdictions that make them illegal. That fact alone should be enough to repeal it.
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That is what is so embarrassing.

Repeal has been attempted over the years. Always a failure.

The last attempt was last year by Delegate Joe (GPS tracker) May with HB674. See how close the first vote was:

YEAS--Abbitt, Abbott, Alexander, Anderson, Brink, Byron, Carr, Cleaveland, Comstock, Ebbin, Englin, Garrett, Gear, Griffith, Hope, Howell, A.T., Hugo, Ingram, James, Janis, Joannou, Keam, Kilgore, Knight, Kory, Marshall, D.W., May, McClellan, McQuinn, Morrissey, O'Bannon, Orrock, Peace, Phillips, Plum, Poindexter, Putney, Scott, J.M., Sherwood, Sickles, Spruill, Surovell, Tata, Torian, Toscano, Ware, O., Ware, R.L.--47.

NAYS--Albo, Armstrong, Athey, BaCote, Barlow, Bell, Richard P., Bell, Robert B., Bulova, Carrico, Cline, Cole, Cosgrove, Cox, J.A., Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Edmunds, Gilbert, Greason, Herring, Iaquinto, Johnson, Jones, Landes, LeMunyon, Lewis, Lingamfelter, Lohr, Loupassi, Marshall, R.G., Massie, Merricks, Miller, J.H., Miller, P.J., Morefield, Morgan, Nixon, Nutter, Oder, Pogge, Pollard, Purkey, Rust, Scott, E.T., Stolle, Tyler, Villanueva, Ward, Watts, Wright, Mr. Speaker--51.

ABSTENTIONS--0.

NOT VOTING--Shuler--1.
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You can clearly see many, many Republicans voted against repeal. This is because all the cops are against repeal, including of course the VSP.

God forbid any law-and-order GOPer goes against the wishes of the cop lobby. Would lose the endorsement of the F.O.P. for sure.
 
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Grapeshot said:
I fix it - better?
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Indeed. :p

I just want the LEO's who are reading this stuff to understand it is not each and every law enforcement officer that we label as "Anti-2A".

It is merely the extreme irritation we have in dealing with the ones that do, that is taken as a direct assault on all LEO because of the vigor in our posts, and the true of our resolve.
 
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TFred said:
SNIP The reason [it] was a non sequitur is that it restated the very same thought I had just stated...
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Hey! I've never thought of that before--a restating being non-sequitur. But, it obviously must be since whatever is restated literally "does not follow."

Cool. Learned something. Heh, heh, heh. Now I just gotta wait my chance to pull that one on my boss. :)
 
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