Re: Jack Crawford, letters, Jan. 30, “Red-Tainted Lenses.”
I would sooner characterize Nicole Good and Alex Pretti as “weekend warriors” than peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. Why did all of this happen in one state even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are doing the same stuff in many others?
But let’s talk about the nurse. The shooting/killing of one Alex Pretti is much more complicated than meets the eye, or the camera lens. I think painting Pretti out to be an innocent and caring nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs who merely wanted to see justice prevail is just too simple to be “entirely” complete or correct.
So Pretti had a valid conceal and carry permit for his handgun and had the legal right to take his weapon wherever he went. So what? One must question the wisdom of someone carrying a loaded firearm into a situation as volatile and dangerous as an angry public protest. What reasonable person would do such a thing? I would not. He might even have seen himself as a sacrificial lamb, which seems to be going around in liberal circles. Anyone doing what Pretti did is just begging for trouble, and it is quite possible that’s what he had in mind.
Arthur Saginian
Santa Clarita
