Leftist and liberal gun groups are seeing a rush of new members
Source: CNN
By Harmeet Kaur
Several niche, left-leaning gun advocacy groups said that since the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, they can hardly keep up with the surging demand for firearms training.
With President Donald Trump sending armed federal agents into communities around the country, even more once gun-shy liberals and leftists are considering getting armed. And while Americans tend to think of gun owners as leaning more Republican and male, already more women, gay people and people of color have taken up arms in recent years, particularly after 2020.
Weekend classes at L.A. Progressive Shooters are sold out through March. Registrations for permit-to-carry courses at Pink Pistols Twin Cities, which serves LGBTQ people in Minneapolis and St. Paul, are up from an average of five people per class to 25 — the group recently added seven more courses to accommodate increased interest, and those are filling up, too. To paraphrase a recent meme: The right is arguing for gun control, and the left is buying guns.
“In the past couple of days, there has been a shift,” Lara Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says. “This changed views on the left.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/us/gun-rights-politics-alex-pretti-killing-cec
This is falling right into Trump's hands. This is exactly what he wants so he has an excuse to order his ICE goons to shoot and kill more people. He won't be happy until there's blood in every American city.
People light candles at a makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on January 24. Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images
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especially when they appear to be nothing more than unidentified masked bandits,
kidnappers and/or murderers.......
The fourth and second amendments still apply---!
And 'jury nullification' appears very likely to happen to me,
in any such instance....
Liberals also have guns. Republicans also have abortions.
"The only way to make the Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make half a dozen or more dead kidnappers."
and the second one likely less well than the first....
and, if they actually try to use two at once, that will detract
from any competence with the first....
I THINK, when Democrats are again in power---
we SHOULD take away guns from the far right,
and give them to the homeless, and people who have had their
SNAP benefits and Medicaid taken away by Republicans.....
or even simply tear-gassed or threatened by Trump's Nazis...
... 
Yeah, I used the 'sarcasm' smilie here, but that might not be entirely honest....
a hypothetical future tyrannical government----
but they always argued that the real danger of such arising
would come from The LEFT, and NOT from the RIGHT---
and now that it has arrived from the RIGHT,
they refuse to admit it, and are no help at ALL!
Too many of them actually APPLAUD it!----
so their arguments for 'gun rights' in the defense of 'Liberty'
were complete BULLSHIT from the beginning!!!!
Jesus, TRUMP even argued that 'you can't take a gun to a protest'
even after open-carriers took over the Michigan Capital building in 2020,
in protest against COVID restrictions--- and now implies that any protester
against HIS government who is legally carrying a gun
DESERVES to be SHOT---
(and the masses of the 'gun-rights' crowd is mostly silent---
although even the NRA pointed out that these arguments
were flawed, as far as the 2nd Amendment and state laws were concerned--- !)
Judging by all the past rhetoric of the 2nd Amendment extremists,
TRUMP and several of his cabinet members ought to have a
PRICE on their head, by now! But..... most of them
would rather ignore the evidence of their own ears and eyes!
In my humble opinion, Thomas Crooks was a PROPHET---
although he may not have realized it at the time...
He mimics a gun store owners sales pitch, and he says he doesn't want to kill anyone
A .22 in my totally unqualified opinion is a great choice for someone highly proficient at shot placement.
No recoil means you are on target 100% with no need to get back on target after muzzle climb and vision not obscured by blast/shock wave or flinching.
The CIA used a silenced Ruger auto pistol for decades for these reasons.
Something about eye sockets
But I'm a liberal, so I don't know about this stuff.
seems I was commenting more on something called "stopping power"
than whether you could kill someone with a 'good shot',
which one obviously could!
And as another liberal, I probably don't know too much either,
but I remember that particular term, back when I was more interested in guns
about 30 years ago.... (stopping power)
(also I owned a .22 semi-automatic handgun at that time which seemed like a piece of shit---
it JAMMED--- I returned it to the dealer and graduated to a .38 revolver---
within about a year, I liquidated my handguns, having lost interest...)
(( I may have thought I was safer WITHOUT any, as I may be the kind of person
who would 'hesitate' before pulling the trigger---
giving some assailant the opportunity to disarm me as use my own gun against me---))
I once had a female State Trooper tell me that "home defense" was a 1911 .45 Colt for those reasons.
So what are we, as liberal/progressives, supposed to do?
Not fight back and let his Brownshirts continue to injure and murder us?
What kind of strategy is that?
No thanks, I spent a very large portion of my life dedicated to protecting the Constitution and I'm not going to let him and his Nazi Brownshirts shred the Constitution without a fight.
Against this back drop, I've decided to purchase a Colt AR-15 with 3-30 round mags to keep in my home, along with my already owned Colt .45 ACP.
You may not agree with me, but that's the way it is and if you ultimately decide not to defend yourself with a firearm, that's your decision, but I will not go down that road.
"a hypothetical future tyrannical government" that was MY quote
mistakes happen now, nerves are short!!!!
