The Left’s Gun Rights Hypocrisy Just Hit a New Low

The hypocrisy of the left on guns has never been more transparent than in the aftermath of the Alex Pretti shooting. Democrats are performing Olympic-level mental gymnastics to paint Pretti, who confronted federal law enforcement officers while armed with a loaded gun and extra ammunition, as some kind of martyr whose Second Amendment rights were violated.

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Yep, they’re defending the Second Amendment now. They’re willing to throw their entire gun control playbook out the window when it suits their political narrative. The sudden concern for gun rights from people who’ve spent decades trying to strip them away would be laughable if it weren’t so transparently cynical.

Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, a gun violence survivor who has now made it her mission pushing gun