Cut and Paste from another post:

When the government is a criminal organization those who run it give orders that must be obeyed without question by those out of government. Those in government say so.

Why is this hard to see?

The Bill of Rights was never enforced as written, and demonstrated even before the amendments were added to the criminal Constitution of 1789. Look into the Judiciary Act of 1789, which was enforced before amending the criminal Constitution of 1789 with the Bill of Rights.

I think it is hard to see the fact that the government from the top down has been taken over by criminals because people think in terms of legal fiction dogma, rather than people thinking in terms of lawful due process.
"Does Virginia really believe that their nonsense will “stand”?"

One of the first times people fought back (taking a stand) against criminal actions perpetrated by criminals in government was Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts in 1787 while the Federation was a Federation of Independent States; before the Federation was restructured into a Profitable Monopoly Nation-State Legal Fiction in 1789. The people went to reclaim their guns at the Armory, and an illegal private army of corporate mercenaries cut them off and drove them away: crushing the spirit of liberty in Massachusetts with an Iron Despotic Hand.

Some of the patriots were able to escape to a nearby Republic for sanctuary.

That was the first test of the right to bear arms in America after the British criminals were driven off by the defenders. Since it was still a federation then, the despotic turning States, like Massachusetts, could sink or swim as it either consented to provide lawful government, grew and prospered as a result, or it failed as a State, turning despotic, and the people ran like slaves to the other States that remained republican in nature.
Individuals, not legal fictions, stand on principle. Legal fictions merely cover up the fact that the government is infiltrated with criminals, and once in power, they shut down the law, turning the law into their exclusive power to punish the disobedient.

If it were a lawful government, at any level, from the individual, to the family, to the town, city, county, State, or Federation, then individual private prosecutors (non-government regular people) could accuse anyone in office of a crime. The accusation then moves to the next step in lawful due process. The accusation is handed to an individual member of the pool from which a grand jury is formed, a non-government magistrate, or justice of the peace, and that individual then forms an independent grand jury for cause, especially when the accusation involves treason at the highest level of power in government. The next step is for the formed independent grand jury to investigate the accusation on behalf of the accuser in a private matter, or on behalf of The People as a whole in a criminal matter. The non-government independent grand jurors command jurisdiction civil and criminal, and that includes the power of subpoena. If the grand jurors arrive at probable cause to put the accused before The People in a trial by the country, which is trial by jury according to the common law, then a report, presentment, or indictment is written, the jury hires a constable, and if needed the constable forms a posse, which can include any group of men, including any military units, to serve the accused with the court date.