Despite a gathering of over 20,000 people in Richmond, Virginia to oppose 2nd Amendment restrictions, Virginia Democrats pushed forward with the controversial proposals this week.

“The day after a massive gathering of gun-rights activists at the Virginia Capitol, the state Senate on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow authorities to take guns away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others,” the Associated Press reported.

The AP also noted that several Republican sponsored bills protecting the 2nd Amendment were also defeated by Virginia Democrats, including “a bill to allow people to carry concealed handguns without a permit and to repeal a limit on carrying weapons in churches and other places of worship.”

“The grassroots resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda has exploded as nearly 90% of the counties in the state have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities in response to the Democrats’ anti-freedom agenda,” The Daily Wire reported in November. “More than 100 cities, towns, and counties have passed resolutions in preparation for Democrats taking over the state who had indicated a desire to confiscate semi-automatic firearms from law-abiding citizens.”

Not since slavery has a movement in the United States sparked serious talk of secession, except this time not from the US as whole but from one specific State. The Washington Examiner reported on Tuesday that lawmakers in West Virginia are now considering accepting counties that want to leave Virginia. The State Government of West Virginia is advancing bills offering to absorb Virginia counties who wish to preserve their 2nd Amendment rights.

West Virginia Del. Gary Howell told The Examiner that the idea initially started out as a long shot but “has turned into a real thing.”

Howell introduced HCR 8 to the West Virginia legislature, which states in part:

These tensions have been compounded by a perception of contempt on the part of the government at Richmond for the differences in certain fundamental political and societal principles which prevail between the varied counties and cities of that Commonwealth. In the latest, and most evident, in this string of grievances, the government at Richmond now seeks to place intolerable restraints upon the rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution to the citizens of that Commonwealth In a spirit of conciliation, the legislature of West Virginia hereby extends an invitation to our fellow Virginians who wish to do so, to join us in our noble experiment of 156 years of separation from the government at Richmond; and, we extend an invitation to any constituent county or city of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be admitted to the body politic of the state of West Virginia.

After massive spending since 2013 by Democratic Billionaires Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer and George Soros to elected progressive local officials in Virginia and the former Red State’s massive demographic changes, the government of Virginia was completely taken over by Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.