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Tenure

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On January 15, 2020, Northam declared a state of emergency before a peaceful assembly of Second Amendment activists protesting the Governor's prospective gun control measures.

The preceding November, Northam announced the introduction of eight gun control bills, including universal background checks and an assault weapons ban, among other measures. More than municipalities in Virginia declared themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries” in response. In subsequent reports, Northam said localities would face repercussions if law enforcement officers don’t enforce gun control laws. “If we have constitutional laws on the books and law enforcement officers are not enforcing those laws on the books, then there are going to be consequences,” Northam said.

Northam's executive order forbids the presence of any weapons on the capitol grounds during the proposed assembly.

108.26.183.108 (talk) 04:24, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. It's not clear what changes you want to make. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 05:34, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please append the text below to the "Tenure" section of the page: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.26.183.108 (talk) 07:44, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Please provide reliable sources for any information you wish to add. On a side note, I've combined both edit requests since they were essentially identical (hence the confusing "below" instead of "above"). You can reopen an answered request if there's reason to do so. At the very least, putting the edit request template inside a section header is very broken. If you really do need to make a brand new request, please just let the system fill that stuff out (you can click the view source tab and then the edit request button, and follow the instructions that appear). –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 13:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a NPR article link for some recent legislation occurring in Virginia dealing with some of the gun ban bills stated in the opening paragraph of this thread, I do think the Gun section under Northam's tenure header should be expanded upon, was pretty big national news and with the rally it should be recorded as it happened in the online encyclopedia. I might make another thread discussing this if we don't get any traction here. -- EliteArcher88 (talk) 01:56, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the more should be said in this article about the subject of guns, although I'm not sure that I support the proposed phrasing contained in the above-paragraphs. I would want to see much more context and detail added. --Jpcase (talk) 03:09, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Source for freed slave's Civil War service?

That Ralph Northam's slave-owning ancestor freed one of them to serve in the Civil War sounds a little too politically convenient. Is there a source for this? Any way of demonstrating that was his motive? DanMarshCTR (talk) 19:47, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - welcome to Wikipedia! Based on your editing history, it looks like you're new. Everything in that section of the article has been sourced, so if you just click on the small bracketed number that appears at the end of any given statement, then you'll see the relevant source. In this case, the source is a 2017 Richmond Times-Dispatch news article, which you can read by clicking here. The news article explains where the information comes from. Hope this helps! --Jpcase (talk) 20:49, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article is uncomfortably long

I'd never expect that a one-term governor of a mid-size state with a mid-size population would have perhaps have a longer article than the average POTUS does. There is so much junk here that does not need to be included and I believe that this page should be short and sweet. Same thing with Charlie Baker. Ak-eater06 (talk) 22:51, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that the information currently contained in this article is relevant to Northam's term in office, but I'd be perfectly fine with someone creating a separate Governorship of Ralph Northam article and moving much of the information currently contained in this article over to there. --Jpcase (talk) 01:47, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and it's time to start trimming. Viriditas (talk) 23:58, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Section on abortion

This section is excessively focused on a niche issue that the majority of Americans accept as a safe and legal medical procedure. 200 words about his position on abortion is undue, and shows the influence of minority religious political extremists at work. Viriditas (talk) 23:57, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

I wonder. How many 'bleeping' times are we going to have to hide Northam's successor, between now & inauguration day. GoodDay (talk) 04:49, 3 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]