Local officials vow to shield the public from Virginia’s authoritarian new gun laws

Local officials vow to shield the public from Virginia’s authoritarian new gun laws

Everybody loves local control when they run towns and counties and their opponents hold federal or state offices. It works in reverse, too, with presidents and governors denouncing rebellious officials who won't follow dictates from the state or federal capital. So it is in Virginia, where Democrats who dominate the state government are upset that local prosecutors and police decline to enforce new restrictive gun laws they justifiably view as u…