Some people think that if they voted for it, it’s good and it won’t happen to them. Those are the people who cry the most when it does happen to them. Any Government that blames all it’s problems on a minority group will always need a minority group to blame. Cuban’s in Florida who overwhelmingly supported Trump are learning that lesson today.
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This analysis by the New York times is actually pretty solid since they include video from after the shooting where an agent is searching the body screaming, “where is the gun, where is the gun” and they start looking around at other agents before one answers they have the gun and they begin performing CPR. This video also shows the original agent, who was slapping around women and pepper sprayed Mr. Pretti and started the whole thing shot 3 shots into the man after he was clearly dead along with another agent. Which why in most of the videos there are only 4 shots heard, yet there were 10 bullet holes in the man. There were two guys who shot 3 shots each after the first guy shot him 4 times.
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I am very curious why so many of our fellow CCA folks are so quick to choose sides here. In my humble opinion the only side that matter is our rights as law abiding gun owners.
Our right to bear arms shall not be infringed. So within the context of regulations we can attend and exercise our 1st amendment right to peacefully assemble armed. Remember years ago when some of us did open carry demonstrations??? We were vilified back then by the left with words. Would we be shot first then asked questions later now?
All of the analysis and opinions about the shooting need to answer only one question IMHO: is our right to bear arms being infringed by this administration? Some of you may remember the bump stock ban. I bring that up because there is a pattern by this president to try and take away our 2a rights and only when we rise up and tell him no sir does he back down.
This is that moment where we as a community must say with one voice that our right to bear arms shall not be infringed. That every single federal law enforcement officer and agent must be told in explicit terms how to properly interact with us. We need to know that this president has our backs and that our 2a right is secure.
Because this shooting should cause all of us to ask questions. Not about the victim or the Leo’s but about policy toward us. If this man, regardless of circumstances, is gunned down and we don’t get full transparency then who is to say what happens next? All of us who are licensed are in a data base. What if HSI AND ATF kick our doors down and demand documentation on our firearms? So masked intruders kick your door down with no law enforcement id or warrant.
What do you do then? Comply and lay down and hope they are not Zatas or MS13 or Antifa? Hell no! You defend your home.
So for all those that are picking sides consider a side that should matter to you most. The side of your rights. Because the federal government knows who each and every single one of us licenced CCA folks are. It’s not that far a step from current events to masked agents kicking our doors down.
And for all y’all who aren’t licensed maybe stay that way for a while if it’s legal for you to do so.
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Bumping chests with agents in the middle of the street, and shoving your phone in their faces while impeding their duties is not exactly peacefully exercising his 1st amendment right.
He didn’t deserve to die, but some part of him knew the risks when he walked out his door.
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agree with this video. Our 2a right shall not be infringed.
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Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger 
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Former Special Forces Warrant Officer gives his take on Minnesota protests: “What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.”
[As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.]
- Eric Shwalm
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Keri Smith on Facebook writes:
Some leftist clown just said that conservative gun owners should “rise up against the government” with them because the “time has come” because apparently deporting illegals is…”tyranny.” 
Dude, we lived through an ACTUAL tyranny during the COVID years, you know - where the Feds denied us our Constitutional rights when they closed down churches and schools and threw grandmas in jail for opening their coffee shops.
When the government shut down and destroyed small businesses and tried to tell people they couldn’t leave their homes or provide for their family.
When the Feds tried to force and coerce us to take an experimental shot and to give it to children.
When the government tried to force parents to mask their kids. And some were told they had to show vaccine paperwork to even get groceries, lol.
We lived through that ACTUAL tyranny and still showed restraint and wisdom, and lo - it ended without armed resistance only by the grace of God and the restraint of responsible, God-fearing gun owners.
You think you’re gonna stage a FAKE tyranny now and emotionally manipulate us into armed rebellion?
Enforcing the law and deporting illegals is not tyranny, you buffoon. 
Go sit at the kids table, commies. We DON’T have your six.
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Indeed.
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Exactly how I feel. I would be far more likely “to rise up” in support of the Federal Agents than these paid actors staging these Fake Protests.
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Yeah…that’s never happened. I have a friend who sends me NYT articles all of the time. None have been true yet…in 20+ years.
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Oh
My
God
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Pretti wasn’t a “law abiding citizen”.
There is no Amendment, including either the 1st or the 2nd, that protects your right to interfere, in any way, with law enforcement; no such right exists to be protected, it is a crime.
Pretti’s right to bear arms was protected while he was lawfully protesting and/or observing. He was doing neither when he injected himself into the law enforcement action.
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Right. And hopefully, the loons trying to impeach Noem, will learn that from a judge.
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I can’t stand any of these podcasters on either side, but interesting info.
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Fact-check, please?
“At the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, patient safety comes first — and every complaint is taken seriously,” said Executive Director Dr. Elena Vasquez.
Now, that statement carries chilling weight. Alex Pretti, 37, a former senior ICU nurse, has been accused by patients’ families of deeply disturbing, alleged misconduct toward the most vulnerable.
The claims — ranging from unwanted contact to invasive, predatory behavior — were serious enough to trigger his immediate termination and the involvement of authorities.
As the hospital breaks its silence, one question hangs in the air: how much more is still hidden beneath the surface?
Hospital Director Speaks Out: Former Employee Alex Pretti Fired Three Months Ago Amid Multiple Complaints of Inappropriate Behavior - buzzreport247
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I am unable to find anything that indicates that to be true. Did find multiple sites indicating that it is a false story.
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I understand, taking it with a grain of salt.
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I found the same. Fools on both sides.
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