Sorting through what exactly Alex Pretti did or did not do to provoke his death in Minneapolis at the hands of ICE agents is not enough to understand this tragedy.

Pretti had a permit for his concealed weapon. But does the Second Amendment cover carrying it at an incendiary anti-ICE demonstration with motivation to do something?

All this will be investigated and sorted out. But we need a bigger picture to put this tragedy in context. We must understand that our nation is now deeply splintered, with a divide where we no longer have shared common values.

Consider that six years ago, in the same city, Minneapolis, a local policeman killed George Floyd. In the end, justice was done, and the officer was convicted on two counts of murder and sentenced to 22  ½ years in prison.

But for progressives, this wasn't enough. They indicted and convicted the entire country.

Protests and disruptions erupted nationwide, provoked by progressive groups such as Black........

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