Today we have an extraordinary story, and I don’t say extraordinary in any kind of good way.
It’s actually very shocking. Shocking in what was said, and shocking in the response that has come in reply to what was said.
Let’s jump right into the situation. The BlazeTV Staff give us the details:
Shocking texts have sent the Virginia Attorney General election into chaos, after it was revealed that candidate Jay Jones wished harm on rival Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R).
“Three people, two bullets,” Jones wrote in a text to House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R).
“Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot,” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”
“Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” he added.
The article continues:
And in a follow-up conversation with Coyner, she claimed that Jones suggested that if only Gilbert’s wife would be faced with her children dying, her husband might change his political views on gun violence.
Now, plenty of people have made tasteless jokes about doing harm to other people (listen to teenagers chatting among friends to see what I mean) without actually meaning any of it.
The problem here is that Jones doubled-down on his desire to see harm come to another legislator and that legislator’s family, including wishing that children would be killed.
That’s beyond the pale. Completely unacceptable.
It should probably come as no surprise that Jones is from the anti-2A political party here in the U.S. and that none of the other Democrats running in Virginia have called for him to drop out of the race for saying such horrible things.
In fact, they are saying that they fully support him and that he has shown “compassion” which helps to qualify him for the job as Attorney General.
Obviously, that compassion doesn’t apply to people who disagree with his politics.
If you want an even deeper review of what is going on with this controversy, you can watch the two videos below from Nick Freitas, who served in the Virginia legislature with both Jay Jones and Todd Gilbert.
In a nutshell, the Democrats’ position in this situation is that horrible things don’t matter if they do them, only if someone that they disagree with does them.
But there should be absolutely no support for anyone who really wishes violence on other people. Those are exactly the kinds of people that you don’t want in public office, especially as Attorney General.
