Have conservatives actually been arming themselves to align with the govt. against the people? [View all]
Last edited Mon Jan 26, 2026, 05:42 PM - Edit history (4)
...was their political cottage industry claiming to be arming themselves against an oppressive government just a ruse for arming themselves against people in this country they don't like?
That's the question for conservatives as the Trump administration doubles down on excusing the execution-style killing of Alex Pretti by blaming the victim for legally carrying a concealed gun.
Minneapolis police say Mr. Pretti was legally entitled to carry a gun which several sworn depositions already filed in court say he never pulled out or brandished.
Bovino and others in the administration have conjured up a threat narrative without presenting any proof that the man his agents shot, the ICU nurse, wasn't there to help people as he is seen helping a woman they pushed to the ground before they pepper sprayed them both in the face. They claim that the mere presence of his weapon on his person was proof of intent for whatever chickenshit threat to his armored and armed agents they can think up real quick.
That was what Bovino was claiming on the teevee news yesterday - that his unfounded and outrageous suggestions that Alex Pretti may have been planning to shoot law enforcement officers was evident to him because this private citizen was there with a gun.
Kyle Rittenhouse, anyone....?
“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple. You don’t have that right to break the law and incite violence,” he said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also erroneously stated that you can’t bring a gun to a protest. Bessent trampled over host Jonathan Karl’s assertion that all Americans have a right to bear arms during a stop by ABC’s “This Week.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/25/those-rights-dont-count-bovino-says-pretti-forfeited-2nd-amendment-rights-in-fatal-shooting/
Trump supporting, second amendment-touting conservatives found refuge and opportunism in yet another republican administration; right wing dupes of decades of appeals from their political leaders to hate and denigrate their brown-skinned neighbors; mostly poor whites who've been told by their leaders and their niche media that brown-skinned people are the reason they can't find work or can't get ahead; even as their own elected leaders openly rob them blind of the meager benefit they get from government as they fill their own pockets from the U.S. Treasury or use the influence of their offices to enrich themselves instead of their constituents.
Now their own elected officials have shown their true face and have leapt past their promises to unleash government power against mostly brown-skinned immigrants, and have turned those very same repressive resources against EVERYONE, not just the immigrants they acquiesced to the Trump regime's campaign of ethnic cleansing WITH THEIR VOTES.
Will they now just align their armed militancy with the government that's now indiscriminately arrayed it's repressive power against the people? Isn't that what the Trump regime's defenses about some threat from "leftist ideology" is all about, designating their made-up nemesis, "antifa" as a terrorist organization?
Will conservatives simply align themselves with this oppressive regime, convinced that they are in some protected group, and that the 'enemies of the state' as Trump has specifically labeled his Democratic opposition, along with any other opposition be fair game to them for this open warfare against Democratic-led and dominated cities and states?
Or will they recognize that Trump's violent and murderous repression is actually a blunt instrument designed to tear down all of America like he's tearing down the White House, claiming it's too late for "obstructionists" to do anything about it?
Will they realize that the Trump regime justifying the murder of Alex Pretti on the pretext that his holstered, legal gun (removed by an agent seconds before he was shot and killed) was a threat that deserved the punishment of a street-execution by federal agents - now claiming the mere presence of the holstered weapon was proof some kind of mind crime plot to kill them - is a clear and present danger to any one of them the government arbitrarily decides is a threat to the state?
Right wing Trump supporters have lowered their own guard so far that they're caught in-between holding onto their antipathies against brown-skinned people, and maintaining their support for a government they elected into power which is now openly antagonistic to their very political ideology and being.
First the convicted felon they elected said this militarization in our communities was about some threat to the nation from undocumented immigrants; now they're asserting that they're striking out at a "leftist ideology" that threatens THEM and their own politicized interests; insisting that just carrying a gun is a threat to them and the wanton warfare they've been practicing in our neighborhoods.
Which side, whose side are these second amendment-touting conservatives on?
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