Virginia Dems Want More Rapists And Murderers On The Streets

In a move that is not a shock to anyone except for those who were psyopped into believing Gov. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., was a “moderate,” Democrats are poised to make life a little easier for rapists and murderers.

Spanberger was sworn into office on Saturday, and radical Democrats control both houses of Virginia’s General Assembly. Legislative proposals have been streaming in, many of which aim to ban guns, rig elections, disenfranchise Virginians, kill unborn babies, and tax just about everything under the sun.

But one proposal, championed by Democrat Delegate Rae Cousins, would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for rape, manslaughter, assaulting law enforcement, the possession and distribution of child pornography, and repeat violent felonies. Democrat support for rapists, murderers, pedophiles, and those who assault law enforcement is nothing new, but it is usually reserved for states like California, Washington, and Oregon.

Cousins’ bill would remove the 5-year mandatory minimum prison sentence for those caught producing, publishing, selling, financing, and otherwise creating or helping to create child pornography of those under the age of 15, as well as the 15-year mandatory minimum for a second offense. It also eliminates language that would require that sentence to be served consecutively, as opposed to concurrently, with sentences for other offenses.

Cousins would also remove the mandatory minimum of 25 years for rape, as well as the requirement that those years be served consecutively with other offenses.

Anyone who brandishes or uses a firearm in the commission of murder, rape, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animate object sexual penetration, robbery, carjacking, burglary, malicious wounding, malicious bodily injury to a law-enforcement officer, aggravated malicious wounding, malicious wounding by mob, or abduction will not only have the mandatory minimum of three years in prison given for his crime, but actually have the offense reduced to between one and three years or a combination of jail time of a year or less and a fine.

Coupled with gun restrictions — which Cousins also apparently supports — these legislative changes seemingly indicate Democrats would prefer to make it easier for a citizen to get raped or murdered and have the rapist or murderer be handed a light sentence for his crime.

It could be a perfect storm, as Democrats also want to get rid of all electronic recording devices in district and circuit courtrooms, which would give far-left judges who love to let violent criminals off the hook the ability to do so without public scrutiny.

Add to that the violent tendencies of Attorney General Jay Jones, D-Va., the state’s chief law enforcement officer, who fantasized about murdering his Republican colleagues and their children, and Virginia is going to get a lot more dangerous.

If the measure passes the legislature, it will be up to Spanberger to veto the bill. But Spanberger’s blatant radicalism makes a veto extremely unlikely.

Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.