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Susan G's avatar

God help us all. Sorry to say, I vote that Trump invokes the Insurrection Act. Better a fascist than a taco. And the "sweetest guy" doesn't take a firearm to a peaceful demonstration.

Marius Clore's avatar

Well since Minnesota is a concealed carry state he may well carry a firearm with him at all times. But his actions a behavior led to the shooting. If you are stopped by a cop and you're carrying, whether at. demonstration or simply a minor traffic stop, you make sure that your hands are always visible and nowhere near the weapon and you informed the cop (in this instance ICE) that you're carrying and where the weapon is located. It's really very simple, and everybody should know that one never engages in an altercation with a cop as it always ends badly for the person doing the altercation.

Brian M's avatar

Of course he "may", but that action, though legal, carries a lot of risk when you are going to confront armed ICE agents in physical violence at a protest. Just think of ICE as an ordinary police officer on a traffic stop. If you have a license to conceal and carry but you reach for your gun while sitting stopped with the cop at your window, there is a high likelihood you will be shot. Conceal and Carry must be used very wisely

Gitch's avatar

My thoughts exactly. Gee just follow the law

Marius Clore's avatar

Exactly what I was saying

NWCitizen's avatar

Except he didn't reach for his gun. He was carrying a camera and police disarmed him FIRST then shot him.

Margaret G's avatar

Also his weapon was not typical of a firearm used for self defense, and why carry the extra ammunition? None of it adds up to legal behavior.

Mark W's avatar

As someone who legally conceal carries. Normal firearm, normal to carry a second mag.

What isn't normal is carry without your license in a state that requires it and antagonizing law inforcement.

Margaret G's avatar

Thanks for the clarification. Sounds like it was a very expensive firearm for a nurse to afford, though? Yes the lack of ID was very damning.

Mark W's avatar

I would not read much into the specific firearm or second mag. Its well within affordable range for someone who is serious enough to get a conceal carry license. Normally its recommended to not carry an expensive or sentimental firearm because you should expect to lose it to evidence if you ever have to use it. Its also recommended to carry a reliable firearm that you have practiced with and can competently shoot under stress. This normally means avoiding the cheap options.

NWCitizen's avatar

Antagonizing them with a cell phone.? Is that illegal? How do you know whether he carried his license? I haven't heard anything about that.

Mark W's avatar

Law enforcement is claiming he did not have any ID on him, which would include CCW license.

He wasn't antagonishing the Feds with his cell phone. He was there as part of the resistance group as stated by his parents. We haven't seen the video that leads up to the agent shoving the women away and then Alex jumping in between and shoving the agent. At that point he is interferring and no longer peacefully protesting or observing. If he stayed out of the street and didn't get directly involved the feds would have no reason to touch him, disarm him, or shoot him. Just like the lady in pink who captured the video. She stayed back and just documented. They didn't touch her.

NWCitizen's avatar

Is disarming someone THEN shooting them 10 times an accetable practice? "Videos appear to show a federal officer removing a gun from Pretti and stating, "I got the gun" seconds before shots were fired."

Gitch's avatar

Very bad choices made by him that day. Must have been listening to some bad influences in his life

Gitch's avatar

.380 S&W Body guard. My favorite daily carry. Not a fucking hand cannon that guy had

Tom Potts's avatar

380 is a small caliber compared to many who carry 9mm or 45 AUTO

Some carry 357 magnum in a small frame. Small gun, huge boom boom.

Gitch's avatar

It's the weight thing. I gained more respect for law enforcement as I tried to daily carry full frame semis and 6 in barrel revolvers.

They have to lug those around all the time!

Gitch's avatar

I also carry a hammer less. 38 special, 2 inch barrel. Small, light and fits in the pocket. Anyone else carry daily, like everywhere you go?

Marius Clore's avatar

Indeed. Doesn’t add up really.

Gitch's avatar

This, possibly in a way could be good news. His plan was thwarted with extreme prejudice

Gitch's avatar

Heavy gun to carry everyday, this must have been his special event carry

Gitch's avatar

I have many handguns with a conceal carry permit. When you " do this" you will soon realize that full frame 9s ( with extra full mags) are just heavy and uncomfortable for everyday use. Shoulder holsters are good for these if you must carry this size. I like my .380 bodyguard, light and small fits right in pocket.

But, carrying this weapon in a volatile, police disrupting type atmosphere and participating in the madness reminds me of a saying my son uses." When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes"

Also, if stopped by law enforcement, you better declare you have a weapon and put your hand on the steering wheel or on your head. Don't try to reach for fgs. It's amazing that there hasn't been more shooting in Minnesota they way these AWFLS and the other useful idiots act everyday.

BTW, I've had the CCP for years and never had any problems. I believe everybody should carry.

Would make a do badder think twice

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I feel safer with open carry.

John Sirko's avatar

Not so simple when you've been activated by your Governor to resist.

Tom Potts's avatar

Then arrest the Governor for insurrection.

Ellen's avatar

His hands were visible. He was pulled away and tackled while he was trying to help a woman who was violently shoved. Video here -https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/customs-border-patrol-agent-kills-minneapolis-nurse-video-analysis

NWCitizen's avatar

You honestly think that is going to stop police from shooting a black man?

Texyz's avatar

Yep.

And awwww, didja see that sympathetic post from Aasma Shaukat, MD. She said it was an act of 'senseless carnage' on her sweet former colleague.

Dr. Shaukat got her MD in Pakistan (likely Muslim?) and thus clueless what America is about. Patriotism, huh? Oh but she loves her income and her freedom. The Left and DemParty are absolutely infiltrated with foreigners and first generation citizens, not assimilated.

David White's avatar

Assimilation is against Islam.

More to the point, Islam is the only major religion that regards itself as having sovereignty: the right to have an army and police.

Many years ago, I came to the conclusion that Islam regards itself as "the super-tribe of the faithful". Then I looked up Islam in the still un-PC Encyclopedia Brittanica. It said that Islam regards itself as (get this) "the super-tribe of the faithful".

JJoshua's avatar

My parents came from Italy. He went to school at night and got his citizenship the correct way. He and my mother assimilated. They are very very pro America.

I just can’t understand how liberals allow these people to not assimilate. It’s just amazing.

I understand now that I am older why my dad was angered when I was growing up by this behavior.

David White's avatar

My wife is 1/2 Italian, 3/8 Czech, and 1/8 Irish. (Guess where she was born.) That's one way to achieve assimilation.

Neither here nor there, but perhaps of interest, I am nearly 100% British. Not one of my ancestors came to America after 1750.

Duncan A Turner's avatar

Sometimes it seems that immigrants who assimilate and the children of immigrants who assimilated are truer patriots than the children of many multiple-generation natural born citizens. They get America more than those who are so easily indoctrinated to hate their own country by woke teachers using school textbooks infused with Marxist ideology suggesting America is uniquely bad and the root of all evil in the world.

Bobby Lime's avatar

The First Amendment should be rewritten to ban the practice of Islam. It could be done, simply, and if the Founders had dreamed their descendants would be lunatic enough to allow Muslims into the country, it would have been.

But the voters of this country, especially young women, are such dumbbells it never will happen.

Brian M's avatar

The Marines were created in 1798 to fight the Muslims (pirates of the Barbary Coast based in Tripoli). Today we are fighting the Somali pirates who have infiltrated Minnesota and other states. Nothing ever changes.

Bobby Lime's avatar

Well, Brian, it does change. 228 years ago, they were terrorizing North Africa. Now, with our imbecilic authorization, they're terrorizing us in our homeland. If at the moment I were permitted one free stringing up, courtesy of The Supreme Court, I think it would be that corrupt poser, Walz, though I would be tempted to yank up Frey. I can't decide which one offends me more.

I don't know if you ever watch America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn. It's on YouTube on Monday afternoons at 4:00, although the time varies. And if you subscribe to Taibbi's "Racket News," which I strongly recommend to everyone, you get an extra America This Week embedded in Friday's edition. ( Each video lasts at least two hours. Those guys WORK for their money. )

On Friday's embed they talked about the striking fact that the Right, much like Israel when it was under SCUD attack in 1991( my comparison, and possibly theirs, I don't remember ), doesn't fight back. As Walter Kirn noted with a dry portentousness, if the Right did fight back, there isn't much doubt about which side would win.

BBS's avatar

"Infiltrated?" More like welcomed.

Matt L.'s avatar

Brian, the US Marines were founded in 1775, and fought in the Revolutionary War. Nov 10th is Marine Corps birthday, and every Devil Dog knows it. This branch of our services predates the founding of our country. Everything else you say is spot on 👍🏽

Brian M's avatar

LOL!! Not a Marine, you can tell. I got the date from Wikipedia, but they are apparently talking about the formal creation of the US Navy by an Act of Congress (not the pre-Revolution Continental Marines) and inclusion of the Marines in the Navy in 1798: "In preparation for the Quasi-War with France, Congress created the United States Navy (1798) and the Marine Corps. The Marines' most famous action of this period occurred in the First Barbary War (1801–1805) against the Barbary pirates." " The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established under the "Act for establishing and organizing a Marine Corps", signed on 11 July 1798 by President John Adams"

NWCitizen's avatar

The Marines did nothing about slave ships bring slaves to America in horrific conditions.

rabbidave's avatar

Can’t an amendment be made to the constitution through votes like was tried with the ERA? If I remember my government class in high school it’s something like 2/3rds of the voters in 3/4s of the states? Something like that

Jim M's avatar

Look, I'm just a schmoe; but I think the easiest way for it to happen is to have the IRS declare Islam as a Political Party, not a religion.

BOOM. Soooo many tax advantages vanish.

And more importantly, they lose their shield of fweedom of religion. Let it go to SCOTUS for a decision, and it would take maybe 15 minutes.

Now I say that being absolutely ignorant of law & constitution.

Bobby Lime's avatar

Yes, that's right.

David White's avatar

I would say rather that Islam, due to its "sovereignty", should be declared not a religion in the sense that the Framers intended: Christianity, Judaism, and none or damn near none. The leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR could then be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit insurrection.

As for Judaism, both its assertions of sovereignty, and its membership have never been expansive. Overall, my standard for "religion" in the sense that the Framers intended would not include "expansive sovereignty".

Bobby Lime's avatar

Thoughtful and interesting. I don't know that the Ba'hai and the Sikhs have ever caused any problems. Scientologists worry me more.

David White's avatar

DE-Ideologues worry me even more.

NWCitizen's avatar

Have Christians ever caused any "problems"?

Mike's avatar

The current Democrat fascists worry me more than anyone.

Mike's avatar

I politely disagree. The men that wrote the Bill of Rights were aware of all the religions and knew that freedom of worship was a must. Religion starts too many wars so they wanted to eliminate one of the many causes of war. I'm not big on Islam but I think those American men were among the greatest minds in history. They were also white.... all those moron DEI progressives can choke on that fact.

Bobby Lime's avatar

But they took for granted that Christianity would predominate in the country. The First Amendment exists to protect religious practice from the government, not vice versa.

In the early years of the Republic many of the states had established churches. For example, the official church of Virginia was Protestant Episcopal, as it was called then. But America was always a tolerant country, pre Republic, as well. Massachusetts didn't kill the Baptist, Roger Williams, but they did kick him into New Hampshire.

The oldest synagogue in the United States is in Charleston, South Carolina.

NWCitizen's avatar

Approximately 62% to 69% of U.S. adults identify as Christian, so I would say Christianity still dominates. Islam the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%) after Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). Islam defitintely does NOT predominate.

NWCitizen's avatar

You do know that a white woman was the mastermind of the Somali fraud in MN?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aimee-bock-minnesota-fraud-feeding-our-future-interview/ Aimee Bock, "mastermind" of Minnesota's biggest fraud scheme, says "I wish I could go back and do things differently"

Bobby Lime's avatar

When did I ever imply that I think white people are the world's repository of sanctity? For a quarter century Christianity has been fading in Whiteworld and beginning to thrive in un - Whiteworld.

sibyl gardner's avatar

Islam is not compatible with Western Civilization. Though I'm not sure what that has to do with the latest ICE incident, other than it being a distraction from Somali (Muslim) fraud.

David White's avatar

I was responding to a comment by Texyz.

The latest incident did not involve ICE.

The latest "troubles" came about not by Demos in Minnesota creating "a distraction", but rather from the usual obstruction of ICE operations.

NWCitizen's avatar

You do know that a white woman was the mastermind of the Somali fraud in MN?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aimee-bock-minnesota-fraud-feeding-our-future-interview/ Aimee Bock, "mastermind" of Minnesota's biggest fraud scheme, says "I wish I could go back and do things differently"

JJoshua's avatar

Religion of Pieces(dead pieces)

NWCitizen's avatar

And Trump LOVES those Saudis that make billion dollar deals with him and his sons.

David White's avatar

Trump could be Ted Bundy without that refuting anything he says.

Pam Humphrey's avatar

i am sic to my stomach by this.....but i think you're right. the worst thing to happen would be for ICE to withdraw. walz and his ilk see the rioters as nothing more than cannon fodder

Ol’ Country Gal's avatar

If ice were to withdraw, ALL federal funding should be withdrawn also. Tired of paying for these thieves antics. Let the state of MN handle their own problems and leave the rest of us alone. The guy was just doing what his governor told his people to do. Pull out those phones and record. I say there’s blood on Walz’s hands.

Brian M's avatar

Convenient distraction from the MN politicians' own criminal acts in financial fraud. Cannon fodder to protect their own political skin, though I don't see the FBI and IRS stopping their investigation. It goes beyond disgusting.

Joseph Kaplan's avatar

For goodness sake! Invoking the insurrection act is not fascism! Please learn the definitions of these terms.

Brian M's avatar

Exactly. An Act, by definition, is a Congressional action to create a law. If 550 duly elected legislators pass a law, that is called Democracy

Richard's avatar

15 Presidents have done this

Jay's avatar

Excellent point.

Brian M's avatar

It is not fascistic to exercise a power given to the President by the Congress and reinforced by past Supreme Court rulings. It is an exercise in Democracy no matter what the Lefties say

Tom Potts's avatar

Trump is not the fascist. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey have ordered their fascist AntiFa ‘black shirts” to attack Federal Law Enforcement officers executing their duties, pursuit to laws passed by the US Congress and signed into law by the US President .

SCADA-Guy's avatar

If I go to Minneapolis for any reason, I go armed. But I would not go to that protest in the first place, so

SCADA-Guy's avatar

When I visit Minneapolis — not often — I always want to be armed. But I would not go, armed or not, anywhere near a protest like that because I don’t believe in deliberately putting myself in harms way. Why he thought it a good idea to go to a protest armed, then interfere with law enforcement, we will never know. 😎🇺🇸

Gitch's avatar

He was there to cause problems, period. Or he wouldn't have been there

JJoshua's avatar

Obey federal and state laws - this is completely alien to those on the left.

Kidbuck's avatar

Tim Walz, the ONLY occupation of Minnesota that needs to end is YOU❕️

👇🏼

Bat Man's avatar

"alien" cute choice of words. 😁

JJoshua's avatar

Unintended pun LOL

Burnt taco's avatar

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This wouldn’t escalate if the state cooperated in the first place. Wouldn’t have known ice was there. But then again we have to distract from the Somali mafia fraud and the governors complicity

BBS's avatar

Your succinct comment is the beginning, middle, and end of the entire situation.

The Walrus's avatar

what my wife and I always tell my kids, seems that's how the left needs to be treated

Texyz's avatar

Ha, I've long said liberals, now leftists, are adults that never got disciplined, never spanked as children. As 'adults', they stomp their feet, throw tantrums, and have perfected fast-talking their way past trouble. Essentially no respect for authority, but always 'entitled' to do what they want. Thank you Dr. Benjamin Spock -- we are now several generations into your popular book on child-rearing permissiveness.

Brian M's avatar

If they even had parents. The destruction of the nuclear family is the biggest failure of American society

sibyl gardner's avatar

My mom was into Dr. Spock, and I also got spanked. And I respect authority. I'm a gun owner, but would be an absolute idiot to bring a gun to a protest and then confront law enforcement... and then refuse to cooperate when they tried to arrest me.

Texyz's avatar

....hehe, glad u survived Dr.Spock, SG.

Ebony's avatar

I have thought this soooo many times! Thanks for putting it in words.

t port's avatar

As I recall when Texas tried to rig barbed wire to stop the influx of illegals the liberal media were quick to explain that immigration was a federal matter. Texas had no right to interfere.

Not so today in Minnesota which thinks it can decide what laws it will respect. The liberal media takes the side of the states.

Bat Man's avatar

And the courts are letting the law breaking interferers go.

Brian M's avatar

Liberal judges also feel like their responsibility is to upend the social order. All these media and judges are Millennials, maybe post Vietnam Gen Xers, who hate America

Brian M's avatar

The Lib media takes the side of Libs. Many "anchors" are themselves Marxists. That is what they teach now in journalism school: how to change America versus objective reporting. And that change is not back to the right, but to the Far Left.

Rooster's avatar

Firstly, the local police could have cooperated with the Feds by letting ICE access illegal alien detainees in the Minneapolis jails, as most cities have, expediting their orderly handover. And secondly, they could have reduced friction in the streets by getting in between the protestors and ICE, providing a buffer, thereby significantly reducing the chances of bodily harm. The fact that they were not ordered by the governor or the mayor to do that can only be seen as a dereliction of duty. Two people may very well still be alive today if the MPD had assisted the Feds, and in my view those deaths can be laid at the feet of Walz and Frey and possibly Chief O’Hara who should have had the guts to refute those two and insist on cooperation with the Feds. This whole unlawful sanctuary city nonsense was bound to end in tears.

Roger Beal's avatar

Walz and Frey initiated an armed insurrection against the people and the laws of the US.

Walz and Frey are sending mush-brained leftists into combat situations, where those fools will experience the fog of war.

Brian M's avatar

There is none of this strife in any Red state, even with blue cities who do not claim sanctuary status (Memphis). That status is unConstitutional, even though previous liberal Supreme Courts allowed it. Immigration is a Federal legal issue, not a state's or city's. To allow Sanctuary status puts the city in conflict with the Federal govt. The Supremacy Clause in Article VI is in effect and so it basically forces a fight between the city and Feds. The SCOTUS could solve this with a single vote that ends Sanctuary status

Matt L.'s avatar

Sanctuary Cities are the crux of the matter. I think it was only San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles and Madison, WI with this designation in the 20th century. But here in the 21st century, this unconstitutional status spread to many other metropolitan jurisdictions. Sanctuary Cities status could be part of an overall ‘color revolution’ that’s been underway for some time and those blue voting council members implementing this, may not even realize they are advancing a larger cause.

Michael D.'s avatar

This can't be stated enough.

Jim I's avatar

Who carries a loaded weapon and extra mags to a peaceful protest and then interferes with police conducting an apprehension of a violent foreign criminal?

Hebrides' Eilidh NicDhòmhnaill's avatar

Not evidently the guy that was shot and killed.

Marcos Amine's avatar

Which is it? He had a permit to carry the firearm or he wasn’t carrying one. Leftists are all over the place with this narrative but haven’t settled on one it appears.

Brian M's avatar

They have the gun and clips. He had a conceal and carry license, even Gov Walz acknowledged. This has not been announced, but the gun will show it is licensed to the perp

Jim I's avatar

Did your Facebook feed you that?

Cat C.'s avatar

No, watching videos, the news and other's postings from all over.

BeadleBlog's avatar

Yes, he was interfering with law enforcement while carrying a firearm. I believe that is a felony.

Mark W's avatar

As someone who legally conceal carries. Normal firearm, normal to carry a second mag.

What isn't normal is carry without your license in a state that requires it and antagonizing law enforcement.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

Love the last post where it lists the riots as happening in years when democrats didn’t have their way at the voting both so they went on a rampage undermining and subverting against Trump in all things in every way possible. Obvious, indeed.

JJoshua's avatar

Democrats are violent, hateful people. I’m 51 years old, no one will convince me otherwise wise from what I’ve seen these past 2-3 decades.

Brian M's avatar

Go back to the 60s or even the 30s. It has ever been so.

Oakley's avatar

The sixties all over again. Nothing ever changes. These people have NO self-control.

Tom Potts's avatar

Not yet, but getting there fast.

Brian M's avatar

This is now the playbook. In 1968 the young anti-American Dems rioted against themselves at the Chicago Natl Convention and got Richard Nixon elected. They learned. Now the Dems riot when the GOP is holding office to unseat them and get their own elected. Summer of 2020 taught them how effective that process is

Trapped in IL's avatar

Brian, I feel like you are my brother from another! AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID HERE! So nice to have others who understand what is really happening in our country, and are able to voice our thoughts and opinions here.

Matt L.'s avatar

The very first Sanctuary City was Berkeley, CA in 1971.

Donna C's avatar

All he had to do is remain calm and let the agents do their job. He couldn’t do that.

APriori's avatar

I just want point out, in response to the claim that Trump “can’t win,” that while he can’t win *with the left,* he can certainly win with sane people everywhere by seeing this through. If that means calling in the national guard to put down an actual insurrection, so be it.

Brian M's avatar

Democrats can't win with the far Left. That is why you see Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema attacked and pushed out of office. And Sinema was pretty far left. The crazies, led by AOC and her troops (Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib among them) and now Mamdani, will never find common ground with any GOP or moderate Dems. They are radicals and want to overthrow the American government

APriori's avatar

Unfortunately, they can. They have a visible vocal minority, a compliant press and propaganda machine, a playbook that gleefully exploits numerous human weaknesses, and, after more than a decade of fraudulent and depraved acts and rhetoric framed as civic heroism, nothing to lose. These facts not only allow them to appeal to many voters who can’t discern reality for themselves but provide cover for electoral fraud to make up any difference.

Democrats are now fully in bed with the radical left. Their fates are intertwined. Whatever they may call themselves, there are no actual moderates remaining who still call themselves Democrats.

Democrats cannot walk back the utterly depraved and dishonest tactics and rhetoric they’ve used over the past decade without consigning themselves to the political wilderness for decades. They have nothing more to lose by quadrupling down.

Texyz's avatar

...yes, but with SO many leftists in US, timing is important. Its not a bad idea to let the Left overreach SO bad that it becomes REALLY obvious to the rest of the country that the Insurrection Act is needed. I believe its coming....

Jim I's avatar

Obama deported and removed 3M illegals — half who had no criminal record.

No protests.

NNTX's avatar

And was celebrated by the media for doing so. Note that many of the Obama deportees were those turned back at the border. Totally unlike the chaos that Biden inflicted upon us.

Trapped in IL's avatar

Wondering how many of those Obama deportees are back in the states now because of Biden’s open border?

CharP's avatar

If you are there to peacefully protest why are you carrying a firearm when you know you are going to be interacting with Federal agents who also have guns? 🙄

Dutchmn007's avatar

History lesson: this is what the democrats - the party of the Old South - did in the run up to The War Between The States in 1861; nullifying federal law when it didn’t suit them (unconstitutional) & not recognizing the duly elected president (Lincoln). They kicked him off the ballot in several states. Sound familiar?

Dick Minnis's avatar

Having a concealed carry permit is a serious responsibility. Your not a cop, not a vigilante, but a private citizen authorized to carry a concealed weapon for self-protection if threatened with serious bodily harm. There is no rational sane reason for Alex Pretti to be carrying a weapon while protesting and interfering with ICE agents making an arrest. How in the he'll are they supposed to know what his intentions are when the weapon is exposed. Did he unholster it, or did it discharge when he was being disarmed, and other agents fired for what they perceived as a threat. I don't know, but I do know this with absolute certainty, if he had left his weapon home he would be alive today.

Rules for protesters: bring your whistle, but leave your gun at home and don't point your car at the ICE agents, or better yet, stay home and let the Feds arrest and deport these illegals. Obama deported hundreds of thousands and if you didn't protest Barrack then protesting now isn't about some misguided support for illegals but simply TDS #Resistance which is blatantly pretty transparently stupid.

Dick Minnis

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Karen H's avatar

I agree that if he hadn't brought his gun, he'd still be alive. But I don't feel confident that others who made the quick jump that he was trying to "attack" the agents are correct.

Pat Robinson's avatar

It doesn’t matter if he was trying to attack

He’s very stupid and now very dead.

NWCitizen's avatar

He had a cellphone in his hands recording them. THey hate that!

Pat Robinson's avatar

I would hate it too

We know the game

Be as obnoxious as you can to try and provoke a reaction, so just woke progressives being themselves, so they can film it.

But he brought a loaded gun with a chambered round when your people are filling the internet with “bring guns and kill the Nazis” and then you come on here and pretend to be shocked, SHOCKED!!!!! that something bad happened.

We don’t care about your theater or your fake emotions.

NWCitizen's avatar

I have never seen any web sites telling people to "bring guns and kill the Nazis" but maybe I don't read those web sites. I have seen people on some of S. Stone's articles posting comments about how much they would love killing leftists.

I saved some of the most disgusting ones:

James David: Correct as far as you go. But we outgun them and we will enjoy murdering the lefties in heaps.

Spingerah: I jave no.problem.admiting the fact that I hate leftist scum "democrats" with the heat of six million suns. The prospect of slaughtering every one of them on my ever growing list is what I live for.

Karen H's avatar

It matters if you support the 2nd Amendment.

Tom Potts's avatar

It has absolutely nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment

Marius Clore's avatar

The problem is that the ICE officers have a split second to make a decision of whether to risk their life(ves) or shoot to kill the person carrying the gun, even if that person has aa concealed-carry permit. Further, just because one has a concealed-carry permit doesn't mean one doesn't use common sense in deciding when to carry and when not to carry a gun. In reality, there is, in general, only one reason to carrfy. concealed gun and that's to go to the shooting range.

Tom Potts's avatar

Not quite. The main purpose of a CCL is to pull out the firearm and point it at imminent bodily threats. If the threats increase, then shoot to kill. Using it to go to the range is secondary.

Karen H's avatar

Just curious if you are a 2nd Amendment supporter and if you think the "common sense" standard you just articulated is how you want the courts to decide on when citizens with a permit are allowed to carry their gun?

I haven't seen evidence this guy's gun was out at all when he was around the agents. I only saw a camera in his hand. In the scuffle, I couldn't see a thing about what he was doing with his hands or if the agents had his hands in theirs.

Tom Potts's avatar

At best this person was completely stupid and was trained on where he could carry and how to behave in the presence of law enforcement officers. The fact that he brought a loaded and concealed firearm to a riot and tangled with ICE law officers removed all doubt about his stupidity and he lost his life. I have a CCL and it is crystal clear what he should NOT do. He broke felony federal firearms law by entering a riot and disturbing the officers. He should have stayed home. This man was part of a Signal chat group organized to chase after and harrass ICE officers. TRIPLE STUPID wins the FAFO prize of the day. No sympathy. Pay attention folks.

Marius Clore's avatar

I do support the 2nd A and do have a Utah concealed carry permit but have never made use of it since I live in Maryland and Maryland has its own concealed carry permit which is almost impossible to get. Having said that I know that when I took the course it was emphasized again and again that carrying a concealed gun comes with huge responsibility and should not be taken lightly. The fact is that it is stupid in the extreme to carry a concealed weapon to a demonstration where direct contact with law enforcement is very likely. It’s simply asking for a tragic outcome.

Karen H's avatar

I don't own a gun because I am fully aware that if I were afraid, I might make a stupid and fatal mistake. I carry pepper spray because that is a survivable mistake. That said, I still support the 2nd A (and the 1st A) for all Americans who might exercise those rights in a way that others might say they "should have known was stupid." Kyle Rittenhouse is an example where the Left made the argument, he "should have known" not to bring a gun to a likely riot, and I recall the Right defended him. I am just trying to be consistent, and so far, in the videos I watched, I saw a man who was staying far back to film and avoid direct confrontation with agents. He wasn't yelling or whistling so he wasn't even being obnoxious in lawfully exercising his 1st A rights. It looked to me he wasn't trying to interfere with agents so much as trying to help the woman get to her feet. Perhaps he shouldn't have done that, but it's not a mean reaction. If it turns out that he didn't pull his gun, then he was exercising his 2nd A rights and didn't deserve to die because the sight of his gun scared the agents. Should he have struggled? No. But if that's all he did, he deserves to be in jail, not the morgue.

I ask myself, what if these folks were following and filming feds who were going house to house checking for vaccination status in some future pandemic under a Newsome presidency. Would I feel differently about their "stupidity"? Would I feel differently about how the agents treated them? Police are not always in the right, as many of us feel about the beatings and killings of two J6ers.

Tom Potts's avatar

Carrying pepper spray is a great idea for a lady for protection against assault and rape by criminals, who also be illegal aliens. Never use it on any law enforcement officers unless they are trying to rape you. Look into Bryna, non lethal self protection system.

https://byrna.com/

You can acquire a small one for ladies that is bright orange . Police officers know what they are. Again, never point one, nor shoot them at a law enforcement officer or it might get you killed.

NWCitizen's avatar

Even if he is carrying a cellphone in his hands and they take his guns FIRST? "Videos appear to show a federal officer removing a gun from Pretti and stating, "I got the gun" seconds before shots were fired."

Marius Clore's avatar

I have no idea whether he was trying to attack the agents or not. No way of knowing. But he sure didn’t do exactly as they told him. If he had done so he wouldn’t have been pistol whipped and he’d be alive today. I think the lesson here is never to put oneself in harms way unless absolutely necessary and in this instance it was senseless.

Richard's avatar

No clue what happened on the ground but I do know that the immigration laws being enforced were written by Democrats. Ted Kennedy had a major role.

JJoshua's avatar

ICU nurse carrying quite a hefty firearm? Doesn’t make sense.

frank's avatar

And not a cheap one either, and threaded for a suppressor (which doesn't mean anything, suppressors are legal, but the ATF process is a task and the cost is high.) A person who owns a nice handgun like that is clearly an enthusiast (or just has money and no training.) In any case, carrying it and brandishing it are two different things. Anyone arguing that he was just exercising his 2A freedoms is stupid. I exercise mine every day without harassing or impeding law enforcement. Renee Good probably had a valid driver's license, too. But if anyone remembers the Waukesha Christmas Parade (among other similar heinous crimes) an automobile can become a deadly weapon as soon as the driver decides to make it one. (And I'm not talking about accidents.)

Tom Potts's avatar

Not too hard, just slow. $500 for a stamp, fingerprints, photo, and extra FBI background check. Plus extra for threaded barrel and a gunsmith if your chosen firearm doesn’t have one. And then, ABSOLUTELY every law enforcement agency knows who you are and where you live. Don’t forget to laminate color copies of the ATF stamp and take it whenever the device leaves your safe. Those would be serious felony firearms violations.

Mark W's avatar

As someone who legally conceal carries. Normal firearm, normal to carry a second mag.

What isn't normal is carry without your license in a state that requires it and antagonizing law enforcement.

Casey Jones's avatar

Could have been a nun. And that -- irrelevant -- fact is all that you would hear. That's how it works.

Cat C.'s avatar

And no one ever talks about the people who ICE has been rounding up to be deported. In Minnesota, it's been illegal aliens from Laos, for example, who have robbed, assaulted and some (and from other countries too) who have been convicted of strong-arm sodomizing of little girls and boys. That's who Democrats are driving around and protesting to PROTECT from ICE and from deportation.

Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

I love how Minnesota nice protects child rapists.