“Having a gun and being able to carry it wherever you want is a core and fundamental right of every U.S. citizen, or anyway that is what I have been told all my life by the same people who now use the mere existence of Pretti’s alleged gun as proof his murder was justified. The NRA for example released a statement, which boils down to the fact that they are A-OK with secret police executing legal gun carriers. The idea I was given by the NRA and others is that if the government becomes tyrannical, it is a citizen’s duty to murder the government and its officials with your guns. This didn’t seem to be Pretti’s idea at all, and it’s not my idea at all, but it is the Republican idea about civilian ownership of guns, and they say it in exactly those words to defend guns after each gun massacre. If Pretti had used his gun against the death squads in this way, he would have been entirely in line with the Republican story about why guns are a fundamental American right, which I mention only to demonstrate that Republican gun defenders were lying all along. So now we have another Nazis output besides corpses: lies.”
— The Shovel Next Time
