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I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Cop Amber Guyger Is One Reason We Need Private Gun Ownership:
https://mises.org/power-market/cop-amber-guyger-one-reason-we-need-private-gun-ownership

(Ryan McMaken) When advocates of gun confiscation complain about “guns” and say “no one needs a gun for x” all they are really saying — whether they understand it or not — is “I want only cops and soldiers to have guns.”

While gun control advocates often claim to be suspicious of police power, logic dictates that the gun-confiscation position is simply the position that only government employees should have guns. Similarly, more mild gun-regulation positions are designed to increase the coercive power of government over the taxpaying citizenry, and to lessen access to private sources of self-defense — thus increasing private-sector dependence on government police for “protection.”  The gun-regulation position is premised on the idea that only the police can really be trusted with gun ownership.

And what a terrible position that is.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Only a mindless drone would push for State-run gun control in this climate of murderous Blue Privilege…