Did Non-Existent Second Amendment Support Doom Virginia AG?

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares had every advantage going into Tuesday’s elections in the Old Dominion State. Not only was he the incumbent, but he was also the one who didn’t have a reckless driving arrest, some sketchy manipulations of his community service requirements, text messages saying he’d shoot a political rival over two genocidal madmen, and wanted that rival to experience his children being murdered.

I mean, that should have been a slam dunk. You should just simply not have to be as awful as the other guy, which wasn’t a difficult bar to clear.

Unfortunately, that’s not how it worked out, as we all know.

So what gives?

Well, there’s likely to be a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on for the next few weeks, and not just in this race, either. However, Gun Owners of America may have an idea of what happened.

As AG, @JasonMiyaresVA defended gun control, ignored gun owners, and expected their votes anyway. But he lost them—and the race.

The 2A drives the GOP base. If the party forgets that, gun owners will remind them at the ballot box.

Republicans don’t win by acting like Dems. pic.twitter.com/gwt5Zgdrbk

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) November 5, 2025

I mean, I don’t think they’re entirely wrong. I’m not sure that accounts for the totality of what took place, but there’s no way that Miyares’ history with gun rights did him any favors.

Let’s be real here. If the guy in the office is going to work to take away your right to keep and bear arms regardless, there’s just not as much reason to care about the race at all.

However, I’m not sure that’s the totality of what happened, either.

As I noted on Wednesday morning, Jones won by the slimmest margin of the three statewide candidates. That would suggest that at least some people voted against him while supporting the other two anti-gun Democrats in the race. If the difference between Jones and Miyares was exclusively because of Second Amendment supporters in the state, one would imagine that the difference would have gone the other way, with a wider margin of victory for Jones.

I’m not disputing that gun rights supporters in Virginia didn’t care for either guy in the AG race. I didn’t care for either of them, myself.

But the truth is that Virginia has bigger problems than just one anti-Second Amendment Republican in the race. The problem is that people in Virginia don’t value their gun rights enough.

Many of the ideas enshrined in the Bill of Rights came from the Virginia state constitution of the time. The people of the state valued those rights and shared them with the rest of the new nation. We have them to thank for that.

The problem is that the Virginia of today and the Virginia of the 1790s aren’t remotely similar, beyond sharing a geographic area. The people of the state don’t care enough about their gun rights.

Miyares is just another example of how that’s the case.

So yeah, his anti-gun work didn’t help his case with gun rights advocates, to say the least, but the truth is that he’s more of a symptom of the problem than the problem itself.

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