{"id":174933,"date":"2025-10-09T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=174933"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T21:18:46","slug":"unsurprising-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=174933","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprising donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151963 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gun-girl-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gun-girl-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gun-girl-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/gun-girl.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jay Jones, a Democrat running to be Attorney General of the state of Virginia, has been in the news lately.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virginia\u2019s Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones chillingly suggested that if more cops got killed after being stripped of legal protection, they would shoot fewer people, according new claims from an ex-colleague in the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, a former Democrat representative in Virginia\u2019s House of Delegates, is already facing calls to drop out after Republican Del. Carrie Coyner revealed 2022 text exchanges between them in which he suggested he would shoot then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert over Adolf Hitler, and said Gilbert and his wife should have to watch his \u201cfascist\u201d children die.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/06\/us-news\/virginia-ag-candidate-jay-jones-said-if-more-cops-got-killed-they-wouldnt-shoot-so-many-people-lawmaker-claims\/\">NY Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-174935 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2XDjNBWgAADzpN_3631d8-240x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2XDjNBWgAADzpN_3631d8-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2XDjNBWgAADzpN_3631d8-266x333.webp 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G2XDjNBWgAADzpN_3631d8.webp 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s the kind of candidate we want. No doubt sounds like a reactionary whacko Republican to Democrats, especially to the special breed of Democrats who support <del datetime=\"2025-10-07T20:57:35+00:00\">totalitarian people<\/del> gun control. Shoot people in the head, shoot their children &#8211; must be the guns&#8217; fault somehow?<\/p>\n<p>Well, turns out there&#8217;s a hundred thousand reasons you&#8217;re wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, running alongside gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, received $200,000 from Everytown for Gun Safety in August, campaign finance records reviewed by Fox News Digital show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Ghazala Hashmi and Jay Jones are committed gun sense champions, and we\u2019re proud to endorse them today,&#8221; John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said in a press release at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Preventing gun violence is a winning issue in Virginia, and Everytown will go all out to make sure voters know which candidates are making public safety a top priority.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/gun-control-group-gave-six-figure-donation-dem-candidate-who-fantasized-about-shooting-gop-lawmaker\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Gun sense&#8221; &#8211; seems to mean &#8216;as long as you shoot people with whom we disagree&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Despite calls to drop out from the race, Jones remains a candidate. Everytown did not return calls for comment. However, at least one report says that Everytown&#8217;s endorsement has been quietly scrubbed from their web site. <a href=\"https:\/\/ussanews.com\/2025\/10\/07\/sayonara-everytown-for-gun-safety-quietly-scrubs-endorsement-of-va-ag-candidate-jay-jones\/\">USSANews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all know I don&#8217;t mean to post these pictures, but when I do a search in TAH&#8217;s photo archives for &#8216;gun&#8217; this is the kind of result I see. There may be others, but I don&#8217;t see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jay Jones, a Democrat running to be Attorney General of the state of Virginia, has &hellip; <a title=\"Unsurprising donation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=174933\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unsurprising donation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,720,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-2026-elections","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}