For decades, most churches operated on a simple assumption: A house of worship is sacred ground. A place of peace. A place of refuge. A place to freely worship. Sadly, that assumption has to change.

It's "game on" as the first spring turkey seasons of 2026 opened in the southern half of Florida March 7.

California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Colorado—all states where Second Amendment freedoms have unceremoniously died or are withering. You can now add Virginia to that list. That’s right, the state of Virginia—once a firewall for the Second Amendment—is about to become a case study in what happens when gun owners sit out elections. With Democrats now controlling both of the state’s legislative chambers and the governor’s office, the Old Dominion has become ground zero for an aggressive gun-control agenda.