WASHINGTON – Following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI director Kash Patel has advised American citizens participating in anti-ICE demonstrations to leave their firearms at home, while reiterating how guns are still welcome and encouraged in schools across the country.
“Bringing a loaded gun to an anti-ICE protest is a recipe for disaster,” Patel told Fox News, as he stood in front of an elementary school. “But you can breathe easy knowing that you can still take a gun to school to protect yourself against tough subjects and anyone you don’t like.”
Patel continued, listing other places where it is appropriate to bring guns, “The gym, hospitals, airports… You can even take them to the library to protect yourself against big, hard-covered books – just as long as you take them out with a silencer, ‘cuz you know how librarians hate loud noises.”
“But if ICE shows up and you try to give them constructive feedback, they have no choice but to shoot you. After all, that’s what we train them to do.”
A post later appeared on the FBI’s X account, saying how it’s illegal to bring a gun to any protest, specifically ones relating to the decline of American democracy, the oppression of groups such as women, people of colour, members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, as well as protests against guns violence, but how “we’d be surprised to see a gun there anyways.”
When asked if this ruling infringed people’s right to bear arms, Patel said it did not as the second amendment “protects citizens from tyranny” and how “there’s nothing more tyrannical than a teacher who is indoctrinating students with rainbows and women’s studies.”
Asked what the difference was between this case and the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who at age 17 brought a gun to a protest and shot three people, killing two, Patel said the difference was that Rittenhouse was clearly “on his way to a local elementary school to free students who were being taught critical race theory.”
