Jim Geraghty: The Administration's Crazy Claims About Firearms Re: The Pretti/MN Shooting; Noem Needs To Go

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   The anti-Second-Amendment rhetoric from the administration (esp. Noem and Patel) is nuts. Pretti was an idiot, but not a domestic terrorist. And carrying without proper ID is dumb, but not some kind of grounds for getting shot.

   Now, I think it's dumb to carry when you think you might get into a scuffle with the cops...especially when your side is in the wrong...and it's the side that always initiates the confrontations... If we were actually in a shooting war, things would be different, of course. But we aren't. So far, anyway...

   The administration and ICE are generally in the right. They're fighting a well-oiled anarchy-and-propaganda machine that wants to undermine the rule of law...but they're so obviously wrong that they're unlikely to win...unless the good guys help them out. Fatal mistakes by ICE and dumbass comments by the administration are exactly the help the crazies need.

Also see the story on the Chinese general at the bottom of the Geraghty piece.