Letter: Over my dead body

For decades, conservatives and the National Rifle Association have demanded the right to own as many guns as possible based on the Second Amendment right to self defense and against tyranny. They railed that Liberals would take away their guns over their dead bodies. On January 6, Trump urged Secret Service to turn off the magnetometers to allow gun-toting MAGAs on their way to the Capitol to hear his speech in the White House Ellipse. In March 2020, there were 301,268 legal carry gun permits in Minnesota. VA Hospital ICU nurse Alex Pretti with a cell phone in his hand turned to help a woman slipping on the ice. Both were pepper sprayed and knocked to the ground. While kicking him, an agent took Pretti's legal carry pistol from his waist, yelled ‘gun’, and another agent shot him 10 times. MAGA beware, the Trump’s (not the DEMs) new policy is literally to take your gun from your dead body. So much for our Second Amendment rights.