Senator Angus King (I-ME) dropped a bombshell on CBS’s Face the Nation this Sunday, declaring he won’t support any bill that funds ICE because the agency is supposedly intimidating the American people. King’s beef? ICE’s enforcement of immigration laws, which he frames as some authoritarian overreach scaring everyday folks. But let’s peel back the layers: this isn’t just about borders—it’s a masterclass in selective outrage from a politician who’s never met a spending bill he didn’t like, except when it enforces laws that clash with open-borders ideology.

Dig deeper, and King’s stance reeks of hypocrisy in a town obsessed with control. ICE agents, much like ATF bureaucrats, wield federal power to raid homes, seize property, and instill fear—yet King only cries foul when it’s about deporting illegals, not when it’s gun owners facing dawn raids over a short-barrel shotgun or a pistol brace. Remember Ruby Ridge or Waco? Those were alphabet soup agencies intimidating Americans over firearms regs, and crickets from the likes of King. This selective pearl-clutching exposes the real agenda: defund enforcement that protects sovereignty while greenlighting the machinery that chips away at the Second Amendment. If ICE is too scary for funding, why not gut the ATF next?

For the 2A community, this is a flashing red light. King’s logic is a blueprint for anti-gun politicians: paint law enforcement as intimidators to starve them of funds, then cry helplessness when criminals run rampant or feds overreach on rifles. It normalizes defunding protectors while bolstering disarmers—implications that could embolden assaults on border security (hello, cartel guns flooding in) and NRA-backed sheriffs who refuse unconstitutional orders. 2A patriots, take note: support bills that fund ICE alongside pro-gun reforms, or watch the dominoes fall on your rights. King’s vote? Just another vote against ordered liberty.