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I firmly believe in the 2nd Amendment, the right to own a gun and protect yourself.
But this was not self-protection, or compliance with gun-laws. Pretti ignored the mandatory concealed-carry training he received, on how to avoid a confrontation with police while carrying a firearm.
He did the exact opposite. ARMED, he picked a fight with police.
If he did the same thing in any other place with police present, like a shopping mall, or a school, or a church, or a gay night club, he would have similarly been fired upon.
"Right to bear arms" doesn't mean right to go armed into a potential riot situation, physically clash with cops, and make them think you're a Stoneman-Douglas high school type shooter, or a Uvalde type shooter, that they need to draw their guns on before they themselves are fired on by some unpredictable violent guy they don't know.
Gee, maybe they should have waited for Pretti to kill them first. I mean hey, the guy was only packing an extra 30 rounds. And had a scope on his pistol too. Who walks around with a laser-sight added on their pistol? I'd like to hear a plausible explanation for why he had a sight on his pistol and 30 rounds of ammunition, and why he was thrashing around WHILE ARMED and would not comply with BP officers, who would have only cuffed and arrested him if he'd complied.
