cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42161026
A number of pro-gun rights Republicans pushed back on the administration’s argument that Alex Pretti was dangerous because he had a gun. Pretti was legally licensed to carry one.
A war of words over deeply held beliefs erupted on the political right in the hours after a federal agent shot and killed Alex Pretti on a Minneapolis street Saturday, pitting top officials in Donald Trump’s administration against Second Amendment defenders in his electoral base.
At the core of the debate is that Pretti — who was permitted to carry a gun in public in Minnesota — had a concealed firearm on his person that eyewitness videos show federal agents apparently discovering and removing during the altercation that led to his death. Videos do not appear to show Pretti holding the weapon during that confrontation.
Kristi Noem sought to justify the killing by asserting at a news conference that Pretti “attacked those officers, had a weapon on him, and multiple dozens of rounds of ammunition, wishing to inflict harm on these officers coming, brandishing like that and impeding their work that they were doing.” No evidence has been provided to back up this account.
Neither do a lot of liberals.
Liberals aren’t shooting people in the streets, you fucking moron. How stupid do you have to be to make this a whataboutism?
Exactly, they’re being terrorized, assaulted, kidnapped, and in some cases murdered in the streets.
Not to mention that, while these abuses of power may differ in scale, law enforcement and detainment centers have been abusing and denying rights to citizens for decades under either party’s watch.
I’m not equating both sides. I’m not a conservative, but I’m not a liberal either. Liberalism is a failed ideology, it’s a part of the disease that’s brought use here.
Being a liberal (center right at best) is not enough, and refusing to acknowledge the failures of liberalism will just lead us right back to this moment, likely under worse circumstances.
Brain dead take.
On the one side we have “no one should have guns” and on the other we have “only fascists should have guns”.
One of these results in a safer society. Would you like help figuring out which?
I would love to live in a world where no one has guns, but that’s not reality, especially in the US. Blue states are fairly consistent in their 2A restrictions, and it has left their populations vulnerable.