Trump goes after gun rights  ⚖️🔫

After the shooting of Alex Petti, President Trump has decided to stand with the government and ICE, rather then the people when it comes to the right to keep and bear arms, and to peacefully protest. He is choosing the government over the people.

While inevitably we need some government, we don’t need the heavy handed tactics of ICE in Minnesota or any other location. Police should be there it offer help when it is needed and requested, but it’s not their job to be an aggressive force or trample on inidivdual rights.

The government should be enforcing laws when called upon, those times when it’s actively hurting other people, but not just going out there to cause trouble because some statue exists on the book. We aren’t a nation of raids and investigations for no purpose. We as a society believe in protecting individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government and establishes requirements for issuing warrants.

Police should not interfere with or be otherwise bothersome for protests. While it might be reasonable to monitor protests and respond when there are complaints of law breaking, it’s not their job to interfere with others when nobody is complaining or causing harm. And they certainly should not be killing or harming people, who are disruptive, roudy or just disrespectful.

People in our country have a right to own, and in many cases carry guns for personal protection. That includes at protests, while traveling in a motor vehicle, while in their homes or even at a business. While most states have restrictions of some sorts, courts and legislatures have realized citizens have a right to self-protection enshrined in our constitution.

For the President to question people’s civil rights is a great disservice to our country. Moreover, to attack the gun rights of Alex Petti, is even more alarming for a President who claims to be pro-second amendment yet acts more like a liberal Democrat then any true advocate for the most fundamental of our rights.