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J Shayne Snavely The man who cast the deciding vote to pass Virginia’s red flag law shot and killed his wife last night — then turned the gun on himself. His name is the reason the law exists. His story is the reason it doesn’t work. THE FACTS — CONFIRMED BY FCPD CHIEF KEVIN DAVIS Justin Fairfax. 47. Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor 2018–2022. Democrat. This morning in Annandale, Fairfax shot Dr. Cerina W. Fairfax multiple times in their basement, ran upstairs, and shot himself with the same firearm. Their teenage son called 911. Both parents pronounced dead at the scene. HIS RECORD In January 2020, Virginia’s Senate deadlocked 20-20 on the red flag bill. Fairfax broke the tie. It became law. He also championed universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and magazine restrictions — every gun control measure Virginia Democrats pushed from 2018 to 2022 passed with his vote. He stood outside the Capitol that January and personally debated gun owners who’d driven to Richmond to fight it. His argument, like every Democrat’s argument, was simple: these laws protect people. Especially women. Especially in domestic situations. WHAT THE LAW HE PASSED ACTUALLY SAYS Virginia’s Emergency Substantial Risk Order allows police or prosecutors — no family member required — to petition a court to temporarily seize firearms from someone who poses a substantial risk of harm. The legal standard is probable cause. Not a conviction. Not an arrest. Probable cause that a person is dangerous. Johns Hopkins research confirms domestic violence protective orders with firearm restrictions are associated with a 12% reduction in intimate partner homicide. That is the promise behind every vote these Democrats cast. THIS IS YOUR STORY. REGARDLESS OF YOUR STATE. Twenty-one states and Washington D.C. have passed red flag laws. Every single one was pushed by Democrats using the same argument Fairfax used when he broke that tie: we need this to protect women from domestic violence. Same promise. Twenty-one states. One man who built that promise killed his wife with a gun in a documented domestic dispute while the law sat unused. YOUR RIGHTS WERE STRIPPED ON THIS PROMISE. Your rifle was banned in Virginia using domestic violence statistics. Your carry permit was gutted using domestic violence statistics. Your home storage was mandated using domestic violence statistics. And in the same session they killed mandatory minimums for violent repeat gun criminals — the actual people committing the actual gun violence they pointed at to justify taking yours. They don’t want criminals off the street. They want you disarmed. The man who helped build that argument killed his wife with a firearm while the law he championed sat unused in the jurisdiction that uses it more than anywhere else in Virginia. Somewhere Scott Surovell — the Senate Majority Leader who “Googled, Geminied, and AI’d” his way into banning your rifle and called it “a big big pistol with a telescope” — is opening a browser tab right now to figure out what kind of gun Justin Fairfax used. Give him a few minutes. Knowing his research skills, he’ll be back on the Senate floor wanting to ban “a really big, big pistol with a staircase on it.” THE DEMAND Every gun owner who had their rights restricted on the promise that red flag laws protect women from domestic violence is owed an answer. Not from Justin Fairfax. He is dead. From every politician still alive who made that promise and is still in office. In Virginia. In all 21 states. Every single one. If you are in a dangerous situation right now — National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233. 24 hours. Free. Confidential. IF YOU ARE JUST FINDING THIS PAGE Multiple gun bills passed in one Virginia session. The senator who wrote the assault weapons ban sitting on $553,615 in donor money. The Senate Majority Leader who called your rifle “a big big pistol with a telescope.” The governor who walked through a DOJ lawsuit warning to keep your rifle ban intact. The April 21 redistricting vote designed to lock these same people in power permanently before you can respond at the ballot box in November. Every receipt is here. Every post sourced. Every claim pinned. Follow this page. This story is not finished. THE QUESTION EVERY POLITICIAN IN 21 STATES MUST ANSWER Virginia Democrats built a law they said would protect women from gun violence in domestic situations. The man who cast the deciding vote to pass it shot his wife with a gun in a documented domestic situation and the law was never applied. How many politicians in your state voted for the same law using the same argument? Comment below. 🕯️ Dr. Cerina W. Fairfax. Rest in peace. #JustinFairfax #RedFlag #DomesticViolence #Virginia #2A #VirginiaPolitics

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