Say Goodbye to the Second Amendment---and Most of the Others as Well!

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review

...The controversial fatal shootings in Minneapolis recently raised that issue to a top national news story, and when I’ve considered the responses of many conservatives and right-wingers to these developments, the term NPC has increasingly come to my mind. ...

... As acclaimed journalist Glenn Greenwald noted in his own discussion of the incident, not only were the facts absolutely clear-cut in this particular case, but it was equally obvious that all the government officials were blatantly lying. ...

One of the main excuses provided by Trump’s minions was that the victim had possessed a perfectly legal handgun for which he had a permit, a handgun that he had never touched let alone attempted to draw. For many decades conservatives had always expressed their fervent support for the Second Amendment, so Greenwald noted how strange it was that so many of them had now totally reversed their position on that issue. ...

...Most of Trump’s administration has been notoriously right-wing, and everyone would have assumed that nearly all its members fell into that pro-gun camp. Yet as the exact circumstances of the Pretti killing became known, an ideological reversal of staggering proportions immediately occurred. As they defended and justified the ICE killing, Trump officials seemed to be arguing that federal agents were authorized to summarily execute any American citizen who exercised his legal right to own and carry a handgun.

Erich Pratt, vice president of Gun Owners of America, was incredulous.