THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HASN’T COVERED ITSELF WITH GLORY IN ITS GUN-RELATED STATEMENTS ON THE PRETTI SHOOTING: This piece from Bearing Arms parses things pretty well.

UPDATE: Larry Correia has thoughts, too. Excerpt that captures his inimitable style:

That whole Noem/Patel narrative is bunk. Lots of Americans exercise their 2nd Amendment rights in public, even when there’s some dumb ass “protest” going on.

What law abiding gun carriers DON’T DO however is fuck around with cops while armed, and if they do willfully fuck around with cops, getting arrested or shot shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone.

A big part of every CCW class is about what to do when dealing with law enforcement, and none of that involves following them around, tailing their cars, honking horns in their ears, throwing shit, breaking shit, meddling in their arrests, “directing traffic”, obstructing traffic, biting people’s fingers off, or just being general fucking weirdo nuisance temper tantrum throwers to provide cover for illegal alien rapists as a diversion because your democrat governor just got caught giving billions of tax dollars to imaginary Somali children and the democrats really want to win the midterms so they can get back to destroying America forever.

That was a run on sentence, but these people are really fucking stupid. And it appears that they’ve had a Signal chat for MN government officials to coordinate this fuckery with the useful idiots too.
Did this particular dude do all that? No. Did he do some of that? Yes. So again, getting shot is a bummer, but not at all shocking.

If you want to see who is honest and who is a lying partisan hack dipshit in situations like this, watch for the people who ignore all the context, history, and events which set the stage for a particular incident, who then focus instead on minutia and playing back video frame by frame in ultra slow mo.

Like I said yesterday, just off math and basic probability, if you provoke chaotic encounters against the same bunch of feds, day in and day out, over and over, hoping for a violent altercation, eventually you’re going to get a violent altercation. Duh.

Yes. Indeed, getting that altercation may or may not have been Pretti’s plan, but it’s definitely what the organizers of these riots wanted to happen.