Quote of the Day
The people who scream the loudest about government tyranny have nothing to say. The same people who fantasize about standing up to federal overreach have vanished at the precise moment federal power killed a citizen exercising a constitutional right.
This is the tell.
We have seen this movement erupt before. When Kyle Rittenhouse crossed state lines with an AR-15 and killed two people, he was transformed into a cause. He was fundraised for, defended relentlessly, and held up as proof that armed citizens are the last line of order in a chaotic world. The weapon was the point, and the violence was excused. The narrative was protected at all costs.
But when a man lawfully carrying a firearm is tackled, disarmed, and shot anyway, there is no mobilization from the same crowd. The difference is not the gun. It is who the gun is allowed to protect.
Because the gun-rights movement has never actually been about freedom. It is about hierarchy and about who gets to feel powerful and in charge. It is about whose fear counts, and whose death does not.
Dead children are acceptable collateral. Dead immigrants are invisible. Dead Black and brown men are routine. And now, apparently, dead armed citizens are still not enough to stir outrage unless they fit the right political story.
Cassie McClure
January 31, 2026
Thoughts and prayers for the Second Amendment
The tell is that McClure left out the part where Alex Petti, who is never named in the article, committed a crime and was in the process of being arrested when he was disarmed and erroneously shot during the scuffle. A criminal getting shot by law enforcement during an arrest is much different than Rittenhouse who successfully defended himself against multiple criminals’ intent on killing or seriously injuring him.
The two situations are not analogous. It has nothing to do with the political affiliation, skin color, or immigration status. It has to do with whether the people involved were law-abiding or not.
The only thing clear in the article is McClure does not have a good grasp of reality and/or is being deliberately deceptive.
They are incapable of discerning the nuance of the situation.
Somebody who starts a fight vs somebody who finishes one.
He was actually committing a minimum of two (2) crimes at the time he died.
First, MN carry law states unequivocally that you MUST carry both your permit card AND your driver’s license when you are carrying a concealed firearm. He had NEITHER of these on his person, thus committing a misdemeanor crime.
Second, he was physically interfering with federal officers in the performance of their duty. Whether he personally likes the outcome of that duty or not is irrelevant; what IS relevant is that he was committing a felony crime.
Then she continues her nonsense spewing garbage about “dead children”, and “dead immigrants”. Who? Where? Under what circumstances? I’m actually a little surprised she didn’t try to continue the new left-wing myth that La Migra is targeting 5-year-old girls when what actually happened is that;
– The girl’s father dumped her and abandoned her in the middle of the street in a MN winter, and
– The girl’s mother wants absolutely nothing to do with her, also abandoning her, and
– Officers from ICE took the girl under their wing and did their best to keep her warm, safe, fed, and amused. Evil bastards, making those parents look like orcs.
I have read where several people mentioned he was not carrying his concealed carry license. But see that as, essentially, irrelevant in the case. At the time of the shooting, law enforcement was totally unaware of this, right? So, it could not be used as justification to detain or arrest him.