In the wake of Alex Pretti being shot by ICE, there have been a lot of troubling comments from the Trump administration, as well as a few people who are generally pro-gun. They argued things that, frankly, aren't quite true. They also made comments that sounded like they came from Shannon Watts or David Hogg.
But most others stepped up and called the administration out, not that it matters to a leftist trying to make a point.
Columnist Cassie McClure penned a column for Creator Syndicate, which means it popped up in newspapers and websites throughout the nation, where she took issue with gun rights advocates. Why?
She says because no one spoke out over Pretti.
We have been told, for decades now, that dead children are the price of freedom. School shootings are tragic, yes, but unavoidable. The Second Amendment is sacred, and any attempt to regulate guns is tyranny.
So when a man was shot and killed in Minnesota while legally carrying a firearm, not threatening anyone, not firing, not even holding it, you would expect the self-appointed guardians of the Second Amendment to erupt.
Instead, there is silence.
Not a peep from the militia cosplayers. No righteous fury from the open-carry crowd. No thunderous defense of a man who was doing exactly what they claim every American has the right to do.
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If carrying a gun is enough to justify death, then the Second Amendment is no longer a right.
And yet, the people who scream the loudest about government tyranny have nothing to say. The same people who fantasize about standing up to federal overreach have vanished at the precise moment federal power killed a citizen exercising a constitutional right.
Except that's literally not what happened.
While the Trump administration made some...unfortunate comments about Pretti carrying a gun, arguing that he couldn't lawfully do what he was doing, literally every gun rights group stepped up and defended Pretti's right to keep and bear arms at that protest. No, they're not attacking ICE and taking up arms to overthrow the federal government, but literally no organization has stepped aside and pretended Pretti was somehow overstepping his rights in any way.
But McClure would rather ignore that simply because it's convenient.
No, they're not denouncing the shooting in and of itself, but that's because the video itself might suggest what happened, but things are confused enough that no one is going to outright condemn the shooting until or unless it's shown to be a bad shoot. Pretti didn't help his case by putting a hand on a federal agent or resisting arrest, after all, and depending on what all everyone was seeing at the time, and what they're hearing, it might be anything from a clearly justifiable shoot--probably of the "lawful but awful" variety--or a clearly bad shoot resulting in charges for the ICE agents involved.
But the truth is that Pretti wasn't killed just because he was carrying a gun. That's a myth people like McClure engage in because it makes them feel righteous, just like she constructed a myth that no one said a thing in defense of Pretti carrying a firearm.
Another day, another leftist nutjob trying to tell gun rights supporters what they tolerate while advocating the right be stripped from everyone else.
