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Some HUGE admission from some serious opponents of guns

Piers Morgan calls the IRS scandal “borderline tyrannical”

Joe Scarborough says his background checks argument “is less persuasive today”

and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) says, when asked if the scandals make people more wary of government demands on gun control,

“Absolutely – I agree 1,000 percent,” Mr. Manchin said on MetroNews’ “Talkline.” “People are saying, ‘Joe, we read your legislation, it makes all the sense in the world and we’re for that legislation – we’re just afraid government won’t stop there.’”

The gun control argument is mostly smoke and mirrors. No one actually cares how many people get killed. The gun haters don’t give a damn about dead kids any more than they care about dead gang-bangers. The gun owners didn’t kill any of these people, so we refuse to be held accountable for the murders.

The gun control argument was never about guns, but always about control.

The firearm, though, is the ultimate emblem of individual sovereignty, so if you’re inclined that direction, protecting “gun rights” is essential. And if you’re by nature a collectivist, the firearm is the abhorrent idol on the enemy’s altar. This is why no amount of bleating about crime statistics ever seems to change anybody’s mind, on either side.

No one gives a crap about the crime rate. If the crime rate was infinite, I’d have a right to keep and bear arms. If it was zero, I’d still have a  right to keep and bear arms. To the gun haters, if the crime rate was infinite, I would need to give up my guns to bring the crime rate down, and if it was zero, well then I wouldn’t need a gun, now would I?

Nope, it’s always been about keeping We The People from ever having the means to resist their collectivism.

The idea that people might own something as dangerous and personally empowering as a firearm without society’s permission is what has always given gun-control advocates the fantods. That’s really what we talk about when we talk about guns: the power of the individual in relation to the collective, and the extent to which each of us needs to live by the permission of the rest. That argument is going nowhere, in all senses of the word.

That’s why I will never hand over my guns. I don’t exist by permission of the collective. I exist whether they like it or not. And if they object, I’ll be perfectly happy to shoot them until they either kill me or they stop objecting. But I won’t kneel to make it easier for them.

HT: Sipsey Street Irregulars

“Hey,” the gun grabbers say, “why do you need a gun? Can’t you just use non-lethal force? Use pepper spray, or just run away!”

A Wake County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a woman early Friday afternoon when she threatened the officer and other deputies with a knife or machete, according to the sheriff’s office.

Note that the story says “officer and other deputies” plural.

“The caller said a white female had broken into her residence and was threatening to kill her with a three-pronged gardening tool,” Stevens said.

When deputies arrived at the home, the woman had already fled. The caller told the deputies the woman had managed to break in to the home next door at 6222 Melbourne Road, Stevens said.

The deputies went next door to try and persuade the woman to come out, but she refused. The deputies also learned that the woman was in violation of a domestic violence restraining order and was not supposed to be on the property at 6232 Melbourne Road, Stevens said.

The deputies forced their way into the home where the woman refused to come out. Once inside, the woman confronted the deputies with a “knife or machete,” Stevens said.

When the woman advanced towards the deputies, at least one of the officers deployed a Taser three times to try to subdue her.“But she continued to advance, and one of the officers fired his weapon,” Stevens said.

So crazy woman with a knife or machete attacks someone, with a “three pronged garden tool,” runs next door and breaks in to a home where she is barred from entering due to her 50B order, gets tasered not once or twice, but three times, and continued to advance on multiple officers, one of whom shot her dead.

But you should count on non-lethal force to protect yourself while you wait for the police to sort things out for you. Never mind that it might not be a woman. Never mind that the attacker might not be alone. Never mind that the attacker might be more interested in harming you than in going next door. Never mind that you might not have time to get the cops on the phone, much less the cops to your home on time.

I’ll keep my guns, thanks.