01/29/2026
The Trump administration is using the fact that Alex Pretti had a gun (legally with a permit to carry in Minnesota) as a justification for his killing, even though the traditional conservative movement’s position is that the Second Amendment exists as a safeguard against tyranny.
“Well, masked agents of the state beating and even killing Americans on the streets of a major city looks an awful lot like tyranny to many Americans,” Vox senior correspondent Zack Beauchamp writes.
“To cite Pretti’s decision to carry as a justification for his killing is to directly betray the entire premise of the conservative movement’s pro-gun stance. And no, it doesn’t make a difference for this point that Pretti supposedly ‘interfered’ with ICE by aiding a woman their officers had attacked. He was, in his judgment, standing up to tyranny — without ever drawing his weapon or threatening an agent.”
Read more about the unbearable hypocrisy of pro-gun conservatives defending the Minneapolis killing: https://www.vox.com/politics/476515/alex-pretti-minneapolis-ice-cbp-gun-second-amendment?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fvoxdotcom%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F634244058
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