<\/title>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"LibreOffice 25.8.3.2 (Linux)\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paul Valone\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"created\" content=\"2026-01-30T21:56:00\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"changedby\" content=\"Paul Valone\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"changed\" content=\"2026-01-31T18:36:00\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"AppVersion\" content=\"16.0000\"\/>\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.5in }\n\t\tp { direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0.1in; widows: 2; orphans: 2; text-align: left; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }\n\t\ta:link { color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline }\n\t\ta:visited { color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline }\n\t<\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body lang=\"en-US\" link=\"#0563c1\" vlink=\"#954f72\" dir=\"ltr\">\nA\nPretti distraction<\/font><\/font><\/p>\nF.\nPaul Valone, \u201cThe Anti-Radical\u201d<\/b><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>\n<br\/>\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/span>In\na clever ploy, the left has some Second Amendment advocates chasing\ntheir tails over the shooting of Alex Pretti by U.S. Customs and\nBorder Protection agents amid the riots against I.C.E. in\nMinneapolis. \n<\/p>\n<br\/>\n\n<\/p>\nLeftists\nlike Governor Tim Walz and our own Democrat Governor and (would-be\nSenator) Roy Cooper have conveniently found religion on the Second\nAmendment. Said Cooper on X: \u201cAmerican citizens are killed while\nexercising their First \u2013 and Second \u2013 Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<br\/>\n\n<\/p>\nHaving\nknown Cooper for 30+ years, ever since he was chairman of the North\nCarolina Senate Judiciary Committee where he killed all of our\npro-gun bills, I can say with confidence that Roy Cooper has\nabsolutely no respect for the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n<br\/>\n\n<\/p>\nLike\nWalz and other leftists who now conveniently claim that Alex Pretti\nwas just a poor concealed handgun permit-holder murdered while\nexercising his Second Amendment rights, Cooper thinks he has found\nthe dog whistle that will cause members of the Second Amendment\ncommunity to turn on each other.<\/p>\n<br\/>\n\n<\/p>\nDespite\nhaving received a few complaints from our own community over my last\npiece on the shooting, please allow me to utter yet another\nblasphemy: Regardless of what the federal investigation of the\nshooting ultimately reveals, this case has nothing whatsoever to do\nwith either the First or the Second Amendment \u2026<\/p>\n<br\/>\n\n<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rulesforantiradicals.com\/blog\/f\/the-pretti-distraction\">CLICK\nHERE TO READ MORE<\/font><\/a><\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pretti distraction F. Paul Valone, \u201cThe Anti-Radical\u201d In a clever ploy, the left has some Second Amendment advocates chasing their tails over the shooting … <a title=\"A Pretti Distraction\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2026\/01\/a-pretti-distraction\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Pretti Distraction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pauls-blog","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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