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NRA is not amused with CA libtard Assistant U.S. Attorney's hot take:
https://x.com/NRA/status/2015227627464728661




This has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment. You have every right to keep and bear arms but the decision to bear arms in public means if you commit a crime while in possession of said firearm the penalty is elevated and your conduct becomes subject to a second set of standards in that by going armed you publicly demonstrate your capacity to use deadly force. This is a serious personal decision -- it is one you have every right to make but you are responsible for the consequences. Further and in all cases intent matters; Minnesota State Law requires a CWP holder to carry identification while in possession of said weapon in public and this individual deliberately did not do so. That speaks directly to his intent to commit an unlawful act while armed.
The standard for getting shot by law enforcement is that you present to them a reasonable belief (on their part, in the instant of the circumstances, not on a frame-by-frame slowed video analysis afterward) that you will inflict upon any of them or any other person in the area great bodily harm or death. If that standard is met they are authorized to terminate said threat by whatever means are available and necessary. Whether that standard has been met is the only issue on the table here and it is not entirely clear from what I've seen thus far which way that decision does or should fall. But what is very clear and in fact unquestioned is that the individual who was shot decided of his own free will to interfere with an arrest as a deliberate act while carrying a firearm in public and that act of interference is clearly shown and without reasonable question as to whether it was committed.
In every case actively interfering with an arrest by law enforcement is a felony and makes you an accessory to the original crime the person sought committed originally. If you go to a protest and exercise your First Amendment right to speak while armed there is not only no problem you are entirely within your rights. After all some random thug might****ault you unprovoked and you have the right to exercise self-defense in that instance.
just label someone a 'domestic terrorist,' then you can murder them!
Unsurprisingly, the weekend’s loudest story splashed onto the front pages again this morning, about the peaceful Minneapolis nurse who was minding his own business and innocently playing with his bear horn and practicing his wrestling techniques when he was suddenly and unexpectedly murdered by ICE agents for no reason. The New York Times ran this morning’s top-of-page story under the headline, “How the Trump Administration Rushed to Judgment in Minneapolis Shooting.”
To be clear, the Times’s story was not referring to the Athens, Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley, who was abducted by an illegal immigrant while she was jogging and then raped, murdered, and stuffed in the bushes. The Times isn’t concerned about that nurse, nor did it run days of multi-story coverage about her. Don’t be silly.
No, it was a completely different nurse who was, in an ironic twist on Laken’s story, shot while defending illegal alien criminals from federal agents. Even more ironically, Mr. Pretti used a very different standard for avoiding risks during covid:
Had he followed his own ‘safety-first’ covid advice, he might still be here today to help agonize over all the different video angles of the incident that the media has been obsessing over.
This is already a widely discussed story, so I won’t dwell on the details. Plus, I wasn’t there. I wasn’t there when Pretti was shot while federal agents were dealing with his “peaceful arrest-resisting.” It seems self-evident that going to violent, chaotic protests, shouting obscenities, blowing bear horns in agents’ faces, interfering when they tried to subdue another protester, carrying a semi-auto with extra magazines, and wrestling with officers in a high-adrenaline encounter carries known risks of an unfortunate misunderstanding and tragic outcome.
Nurse Pretti stayed home to avoid the risk of a mild viral infection, but he practically sprinted to a tumultuous street protest, armed, and grappled with law enforcement. Make it make sense.
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