Welcome to AmeriTrump 2016.
Coward.
"I was informed that my opponent was physically assaulted and injured at a political function today. I do not now, nor have I ever, condoned violence. It has no place in our political campaigns or in our communities,” Kirkendoll said.
OK Art, however you did vote yes on SB347 (ultimately vetoed by the Governor). How many people would have been killed or injured because you enabled nearly anyone to carry a concealed gun, with no background check, no safety training, essentially no rules or restrictions, including high school students 18 or older? A brass knuckle beatdown is preferable to some idiot dropping his loaded and cocked, safety off, Glock to the floor in a McDonald's, discharging and taking off your Little Amy's head at the shoulders.
“You know, we were very disappointed that the governor decided to veto the bill," said Art Thomm, Vice President and lobbyist for the West Virginia Citizen’s Defense League.
Thomm noted that the bill saw overwhelming support in the West Virginia legislature, passing each vote in both the House and Senate with a majority vote.
Despite the support in the state’s legislature, many still felt that the bill was not in the public’s best interest. The bill would have eliminated the requirement to get a concealed carry permit in order for a legal gun owner to carry a concealed firearm in West Virginia.
This would have done away with the required safety courses and background checks that are requisite to getting the permit, and certify that the permit holder has reached acceptable benchmarks in training and criminal history.
For Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, losing these safety measures posed too many doubts for the well-being of his constituents.
"Without any training, without any background checks, that means basically that any and everyone can carry a gun in West Virginia, no matter what their past had been or what kind of record they may have,"Governor Tomblin said.
“Letting people all over the state just have concealed guns- it’s just not right,” said Kenny Lemaster, Sheriff in Berkeley County. “Not for the people that’s carrying them, and definitely not for the people that may be on the receiving end of an accidental discharge of a weapon.”
West Virginia.
Yep. We’re now definitely in Trump’s world. Ugh.
As I understand it, Richard Ojeda is running against a corporate-backed candidate and theatens certain coal interests in the state.
So this could be atavistic behavior, throwing us back to the turn of the last century.
Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Are we having fun yet?
Consequences of the gop/bagger mentality!
Come on folks in WV, back in the day, you broke away from Virginia because you didn’t condone slavery.
Let’s teach these trump-scums a lesson, get out an elect Ojeda to your state senate.
I read Kirkendoll’s entire statement. He didn’t even have the minimum decency to refer to Ojeda by his name.
Evil.
We’re bound to see push comes to shove for survival when we try to turn to environmentally sustainable life compared to the culture we now have: rape the planet till she and we all die. The problem is we are all tied into survival depending on rape of our Great Mother. The confrontation requires a totally new Welthanchauung not related to material accumulation in our lives, the only life we all know and live within. To move to a spiritually based, sustainably based lifestyle and culture is highly unlikely to be peaceful, considering this incident, and the millions more acts of such violence to come. Trying to survive in an industry that is increasingly vilified and demonized, rightly so, is not simple or easy. Coal is on the way out. West VA depends on coal mining. I see this type of violence arising in every such industry where those employed now have their livelihoods threatened. It was bound to come to this, not only locally, but worldwide.
Wow. Disgusting but I am afraid this is the world of Donald Trump
Can’ t the charge be elevated to premeditated attempted murder??..
The “help me with my bumper sticker” is the new “atomic wedgie” 
Just a little taste of The United States of Trumpalooza’!
Need more information on the attacker-his ideology… Hope media is working on this.
Does not matter, I have a neighbor who is a police gun safety instructor who walks to his mailbox with a rifle, shotgun and pistol every day, stating that doing so makes him feel safe. More than once we approached at same time and I observed my neighbor struggle trying to hold the weapons as he opened the box dropping one in the process. I have caught the pistol before it hit the ground and found round in chamber and ready to fire with safety off.
This is chilling. If this is suspected to be election-related on any level, I hope the DOJ looks into this.
This is not uncommon in coal country. It’s nearly 100 years in the making. Coal companies never took care of the people who literally slaved in the mines. Mining companies literally built towns, if you worked in the mines, the companies built the homes, the schools and grocery stores, even the banking. Nearly every penny you made went back to the company because they owned everything. No escape unless you moved.
The land is poisoned, the water is poisoned, the air is poisoned. Poverty runs deep. These people believe that the coal jobs are the only thing there is and don’t like anything new. Education is abysmal. They don’t trust the outside world.
I saw a story once where a man in WV who would not sell his land to the coal company who wanted it as it was one of the few in the area not yet exploited for coal. He had family picnic and neighbors actually came by and threatened him and his family to sell the land so it could be raped for coal all in the names of coal jobs. It’s incredibly sad. They just don’t care about the land as they’ve been told for generations that coal is their only hope, the land be damned, the EPA is evil and threatens them.
This has been going on for generations. It won’t go away overnight. Coal has permeated the culture, the health, the very lives of these people. It’s a national tragedy.
Johnny Cash explains via song: 16 Tons
Just one of Trump’s supporter making MuriKKKa great again:
