Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's statement about armed protesters has ignited a heated discussion within the Second Amendment community. Noem's remarks, made in response to the death of Alex Pretti, a Minnesota nurse, drew strong reactions from gun rights advocates who shared their perspectives on her views.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem recently went viral for her comments following the killing of Alex Pretti — a 37-year-old Minnesota nurse — who wasIn a recent press conference, Noem said this about Pretti:"I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign.
" Kristi Noem:"I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers."second amendment supporters to share their thoughts on Noem's comments:"What are pro-2A people's thoughts on Kristi Noem just now stating that no peaceful protestors show up to a protest while armed?" Here are their brutally honest responses: "I'm a strong 2A supporter. She is wrong, and anyone that agrees with her is a bootlicking hypocrite that should be forced to remove their 'Come and Take It' and 'Don't Tread on Me' bumper stickers." "Possessing a weapon does not equate to violence. Just because you have the capability to do something doesn't mean you're doing it. A lot of us in the 2A community are saying that recent events are EXACTLY why we've said it's important for civilians to be armed in the first place." "I am very, very pro 2A. The Second Amendment applies to every single person, regardless of race, color, gender, religion, sexuality, political affiliation, or creed. Our constitutional right to bear arms 'shall not be infringed,' full stop.""If you can be executed by law enforcement for carrying a weapon, then you do not have the right to bear arms, and that is unacceptable. Kristi Noem needs to shut her goddamn mouth and read the Constitution for once in her life." "Two words: Kyle Rittenhouse. Who conservatives celebrated for bringing a gun to a protest and actually using it to murder people." "Retired federal law enforcement - not DHS or immigration related. Pretti had the right to carry, and from everything so far, did not appear to be an active threat for the first officer to go hands-on to start with what led to the rapid and seemingly needless escalation. Pretti was on the side and seemed to reach out to two women, so they wouldn't slip." "I’ve shown up to protests armed. Dozens of people I personally know have. There are armed rallies in my state annually as a celebration of the second-amendment at the capital. There is nothing wrong with it." "This government is comprised of authoritarian hacks, and they're rapidly burning through their political capital/perceived mandate, alienating their own base while not actually accomplishing anything other than making sure the swing back to the left is going to be equally hard and absurd." "First, it starts with false narratives, then propaganda, and then they start taking away your rights one by one. Then they take you and people you love." "Even from the standpoint of risk assessment, strip away everything else, a perpetrator with a gun is one kind of risk and a perpetrator who has been disarmed is another and does not warrant lethal force." "His gun had been removed well away from his reach. The precedent is alarming. It says that a private citizen with all gun licenses in place can holster the gun, walk down the street, and if an ICE thug decides they're a threat, then killing them is legal." "I'm pro 2A and way to the left. The current administration is a bunch of clowns. Look at open carry marches and J6. For some reason, those are all okay to them. Just because you don't share the same beliefs as someone doesn't mean you're excluded from exercising your rights. 2A is for EVERYONE." "These people aren't pro-2A. They're just fascists that want power. No one is pointing out hypocrisy in their view. The only thing they want is power. They used the 2A as part of that. They don't need that currently, so they dropped it." "I'm old enough to remember when Obama was elected to his first term in 2008, the tea party people were showing up to town halls carrying long guns on their backs and signs that read 'the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' And for a long time after, there were those guys who would just walk around town open carrying large rifles while wearing fatigues, saying they were exercising their constitutional rights, and people on the right cheered them on every step of the way." "They'd say that if seeing a gun causes you fear, that's a you problem. Where are those people now? There truly are people on the right who only believe in constitutional rights when they are the ones exercising them. When someone else does it, they see them as a threat that needs to be dealt with. Hypocritical and dangerous to their core." "Pro 2a lefty here. The situation we see today is EXACTLY why the 2nd Amendment is a thing, and you can protest peacefully while being armed. Just the fascists trying to paint anyone who doesn't agree with them as a terrorist or whatever.""As a gun owner, I carry my gun for my own safety and those of my family, and I will continue to do so. I will show up armed, not as a hey-look-at-me look-at-me, but to defend myself and any family with me. The capstone on what made America different was that we are free from a tyrannical government. We as a country are still evolving. With that comes change, but the people in leadership must understand that you are there for the people and what the people want. We're not all going to get along; people have opinions, and that's ok. But it's not ok for leadership to say do as I say and not as I do." "That's the whole point of the 2nd. It was put there because that's what we escaped from and fought for. So yes, I will protect my country from enemies foreign and domestic. For the government to say I'm wrong for that and it's illegal, well, wake up America, it always gets worse before it gets better."
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