There is no doubt that FBI Director Kash Patel is doing a good job leading America’s premier federal law enforcement agency.
In just one year, his agents have arrested six of the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted suspects.
The agents who conspired against presidential candidate Donald L. Trump are now looking for work.
Patel, who is only 45 years old, has been on the ground whenever and wherever his agents need help, including Minnesota.
His energy has paid off.
Nationally, there has been a 20% drop in the murder rate and a 100% increase in violent crime arrests.
More than 1,800 gangs and drug crews have been broken up, which is an increase of more than 200%.
Most importantly, more than 6,000 missing children have been located and are being returned home, and 1,700 child predators and now behind bars. That alone is absolutely stunning work.
Which brings us to Minnesota and the hell federal agents are facing on an hourly basis.
After federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, who was very well armed, Patel said this:
“No one who wants to be peaceful shows up at a protest with a firearm that is loaded with two full magazines,” Patel said during an interview on FOX. “That is not a peaceful protest, and you do not get to touch law enforcement. You do that anywhere; this FBI is going to be leading the charge to arrest those.”
Respectfully, Director Patel, millions of law-abiding American gun owners strongly disagree.
The Second Amendment guarantees our right to be armed—period—full stop. There is no “protest clause,” which cancels it out, or any ammunition limit.
Even uber-liberal Minnesota allows private citizens with a concealed-carry permit to be armed, including at a protest.
I understand Director Patel may still be pumped full of negative emotion caused by what’s occurring almost hourly in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but the country’s gun owners are not responsible for any of the protests or the mayhem.
And as to the man’s magazines, how many mags, sir, can law-abiding American gun owners carry? If I carry my normal two guns and four magazines, am I at risk for arrest? Will FBI agents begin targeting me here in Florida?
The liberal mainstream media is strongly opposed to all federal law enforcement. More than 93% of their stories about ICE, for example, are negative. If you add in comments from the inane Tim Walz and other liberal Minnesota politicians, we can see what the Trump Administration is facing. However, the Second Amendment cannot ever be ignored, belittled or bent to suit any political need or purpose, regardless of what the current President and his team are facing.
The Second Amendment is sacrosanct. It applies to protesters, even those whom we do or do not support.
We gun owners have a lot to thank Director Patel for, such as when he was also acting ATF Director and he repealed Joe Biden’s insane Zero Tolerance Policy. However, the comments Patel made this weekend about the shooting sound exactly like something Biden would say, and the Good Lord surely knows we don’t need another Biden.
I sincerely hope Director Patel will recognize the importance of the Second Amendment. It is not a right that the FBI or any other federal agency can revoke or temporarily suspend.
As to the good director’s comment, in which he said no one who wants to be peaceful shows up armed, most everyone I know is always armed. And to a man, or woman, we are all extremely peaceful.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
Early reports by FOX, with words presumably from a government employee, commented on Pretti having loaded “large capacity magazines”. Employees of the current administration should not use the phrase “large capacity magazine” and FOX should not echo them. And last night FOX had some retired FBI yahoo who honed in on the threaded barrel of Pretti’s handgun as obvious evidence he was up to no good. Turned him off right away.
Pretti had every right to go to a protest while armed. Armed while being confrontational with law enforcement might be Darwinistic.
I don’t know about anyone else, but personally I don’t go anywhere without at least three mags, counting the one in my weapon.
I wasn’t there to witness what happened so I’ll not comment on the unfortunate demise of a dumb SOB protesting duly sworn officers just doing their job, taking out baby rapiers, murders, and other trash that the Biden admin let in!
none of the people who have worked in government get it right ,there is no place that carry was prohibited even the white house, there are glass plate photographs of people at the white house armed pre civil war , I can see where ideas might have changed after fords theater but bill of rights was not changed so I call BS on protected spaces
True. I show up to church with a loaded pistol, concealed and at least two magazines. I go in to my bank with a loaded pistol, concealed and at least two spare magazines. The fact that you are prepared for trouble does not mean you are looking for trouble. Those of us who have served in uniform fully understand trouble comes looking for victims. The issue at hand is not carrying a firearm to a protest. The issue is injecting yourself in to a law enforcement operation. Unless you are rendering first aid you need to stay back. We settle… Read more »
Great job Lee. You’re right, he needs to do a reassessment. If I lived in that part of the hood and these riots were going on, you bet your boots I would have that extra third mag on me instead of my loaded gun and one mag.
To clarify, LEGAL, yes. SMART, NO. Anybody carrying should be smart enough to know that where and when you carry makes a difference. In front of a bunch of ICE agents who are carrying bigger weapons that I have? Not the smartest thing to do.
It is a completely moronic statement from a lib posing as conservative. Typical of this administration.
Not my circus, not my monkeys. However, to me the key issues are arming up, going to a riot, then choosing to wrestle cops. Two really bad choices. He won the stupid prize.
I don’t go anywhere unarmed and without extra mags. The guy actually went through the process to get a permit to carry — something that I refuse to do. He had every right to be there armed. I hope that we don’t have a bad shoot here. In the video that I have seen there is no conclusive evidence that the man who got shot dead was in the wrong. I did see him go towards a woman who had been pushed down by an officer. That does not constitute a threat. It may have been just a natural reaction… Read more »
Kash Money Patel needs a lesson Second Amendment because he seriously lacking there. He didn’t shut down that dumb disgusting Commie Amy Klobuchar went she was pushing gun control not too long ago instead he looked like an idiot caught in the headlights.