shenandoah county, VA doesn't need to be designated a sanctuary county--it already is one.
65 of virginia's 94 counties have gun regulations. Local Firearms Ordinances
shenandoah county is the 26th most populated county in virginia. Virginia Counties by Population despite being ranked 26th in population, shenandoah county is one of the 29 counties in virginia without county gun regulations. that's why there's target practice at night and a man firing a shotgun while in a boat in the shenandoah river next to strasburg town park. *
neighboring warren county, ranked 28th in population in virginia, is one of the 65 counties in virginia with gun regulations. Front Royal, warren county seat, was once called "helltown". what does that make strasburg?
* details:
I walk riverwalk almost every day. mid-morning one day in early January, I was about halfway back from the high school to the parking lot when I heard a blast from a shotgun--loud and close. it came from towards the river (about 100 yards away). at that point on riverwalk, there's an open field between riverwalk and the river. I couldn't see the river, but I could clearly see the trees along its bank. I walked a little farther to the town run crossing (there are trees between the town run crossing and the river) and called 911. about 10 to 15 minutes later I reached the parking lot where town police were talking to a man at the boat ramp. a row boat with a shotgun had been pulled onto the ramp.
the police blotter for January published in the northern virginia daily didn't include the incident. I guess that the police told the man with the shotgun to have a nice day rather than charge him with discharging a shotgun in a boat on the shenandoah river next to town park. I often see preschool children with their adult supervisors playing next to the river.
the other incident occurred a couple weeks ago between 10 and 11 o'clock at night. for more than a half hour Jenny & I heard handgun or small caliber rifle gunshots--pow, pow, a brief pause, pow, pow... target practice. at night. inside town limits.
business-as-usual in strasburg and "no-gun-regulations" shenandoah county, va.
image by ms. neaux neaux
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