Ex Parte | The Zelman Partisans

Consider this report.

Remarks against Antifa prompt FBI seizure of former Marine’s weapons under Oregon’s ‘red flag’ law: reports
A former Marine who said at a protest that he would “slaughter” Antifa members in self-defense, if attacked, recently had his five weapons confiscated by the FBI, according to reports.
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Based on the court order, Kohfield – who served two tours of duty in Iraq — was committed to a veterans hospital for 20 days and was barred from participating in subsequent protests in Portland.

What was the horrible “threat” Kohfield made, that got his firearms stolen and him involuntarily committed to a psych hospital by judicial order (the latter part means he may never get his firearms back, nor replace them)?

“If Antifa gets to the point where they start killing us, I’m going to kill them next,” Kohfield told a crowd, according to the Oregonian. “I’d slaughter them, and I have a detailed plan on how I would wipe out Antifa.”

Consider:

“If” A conditional
“they start killing us” If someone else initiates deadly force against him
“going to kill them next” A potential response of deadly force against deadly force
“I have a detailed plan” A considered course of defensive action

Do you, like 17.25 million other people, have a concealed carry license?

If you carry a firearm for defensive purposes, you are prepared to exercise deadly force in defense to counter initiated deadly force.

By obtaining a license, you have documented that you have planned for the conditional possibility.

You probably go to the range and practice your plan. Your defensive plan.

This is what Dim-ocrats and Repugnant-cans alike want to inflict upon you.

Think you’re safe because you aren’t licensed and don’t carry? Think again. Maybe you know someone who does.

Vermont used an ex parte “red flag” order to steal firearms from someone because of the possibility that another person thought to be a threat might get into the other person’s house and steal them.

Florida “red flagged” an innocent man because he had a name similar to someone else.

California took the lawfully owned and securely stored (in a safe) firearm from a woman because someone else in the home was “red flagged.”

The Oregon precedent can be used against any CCW licensee. The Vermont/Florida/California (and other places where I’ve seen the same thing reported) can be used against anyone who happens to know, be related to, or lives near someone who has been “red flagged”… for a willingness to defend himself.

And being an ex parte action, the first you’ll know about it is when the cops show up in the wee hours to steal your guns, and maybe kill you in the process. If you do survive, you may have to wait weeks for a hearing (at your expense) in which you have to prove your innocence of something someone else hasn’t done.

Lindsay Graham calls that “due process.”

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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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