Over the years, I’ve heard — and made the comment myself — that lawful gun owners are treated like second class citizens: pay for permission to own or carry a gun, banned from stores when carrying, slandered, and subject Jim Crow-style laws telling us to even stay out of parks.

Lately, ex parte protection orders are all the rage, which allow gun owners to be stripped of rights — and guns — without any due process. All it takes is one anonymous complaint that someone feelz someone else might potentially do something in the nebulous future. Maybe.

I stand corrected. We should be so lucky to be second class citizens.

Congolese Migrants Monitored for Ebola Along Texas Border, Says Official
A public health official in Laredo, Texas, said 20 Congolese migrants were monitored for Ebola and other diseases in shelters in his city and across the Mexican border in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Shortly after his announcement during a Laredo City Council meeting, the World Health Organization (WHO) considered declaring a “global emergency” in response to a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

To make this clear, illegal aliens from a country experiencing an uncontrolled ebola outbreak are merely being observed in shelters, instead of being quarantined. A person who has been exposed to ebola can go weeks without showing symptoms, yet still infect others.

Victim disarmers will segregate gun owners from parks and public buildings, but these noncitizens, in the country illegally, who we know came from an area experiencing one of the worst ebola outbreaks in history (not the worst… yet), are not segregated from others.

And given the usual catch & release procedures, they’ll soon be wandering amongst the general American population. Be a damned shame if they go symptomatic the next day, after having infected everyone else — “migrants” and workers alike — in the shelters… who will also be on the loose, asymptomatic, but spreading the disease.

Let’s be clear on this, too. By the official numbers, this ebola outbreak has a 63% fatality rate, and that’s with the vaccine.

But that’s cool, because at least they aren’t evil, law-abiding gun owners. They have rights.

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