At the core of the debate is that Pretti — who was permitted to carry a gun in public in Minnesota — had a concealed firearm on his person that eyewitness videos show federal agents apparently discovering and removing during the altercation that led to his death. “I never thought Donald Trump and Stephen Miller would be the ones to finally force me into being a defender of the 2nd Amendment,” liberal commentator Mehdi Hasan wrote of the president and the White House deputy chief of staff in a post to X. Even Noem has articulated that point of view in the past, telling an NRA conference in 2023 that “Joe Biden and the liberals want our guns” because “it will make it easier for them to infringe on all of our other rights.” Additionally, the first law Noem signed when she was governor of South Dakota allowed residents of that state to carry concealed weapons without a permit.
Author: Jonathan Allen
Published at: 2026-01-25 19:51:42
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