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The pen is mightier than the sword and the stick is mightier than the gun in Virginia

In the state of Virginia, it's prohibited for visitors to bring American flags and signs attached to sticks to the state legislature, because sticks can be used as weapons. Guns, meanwhile, can be carried into Virginia's state legislature, because, well, you've all heard the phrase, right? "Guns don't kill people; American flags on sticks do." Members of the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America found this out on Martin Luther King Day this past Monday, when they attempted to walk inside the state capitol, but were told they couldn't bring anything attached to the deadliest weapon known to man - a stick. Meanwhile, members of the gun rights group Virginia Citizens Defense League (and other like groups) organized a "Guns Save Lives" day on that same day and had no problem entering the capitol with anything from handguns to assault rifles, because guns are obviously as harmless as a dead fly. With regard to the odd series of event...