Gutowski: Pirro Isn’t Helping Trump with Gun Rights Woes

We’ve talked a lot about Jeanine Pirro and her, at best, ill-advised comments regarding arresting people who come into DC with guns. Yes, she walked it back, but while I don’t think she’s going to get fired for anything, she also didn’t really make anyone feel better with her walkback comments.

For this to come in the immediate aftermath of the Trump administration’s comments about Alex Pretti carrying a firearm and how it meant he was up to no good, well…let’s just say the timing could have been better, to say the least.

As The Reload’s founder, Stephen Gutowski, noted at MS Now, she’s really not helping.

In August, Pirro ordered prosecutors in her office not to file cases over the city’s open-carry ban on long guns or its “high-capacity” magazine ban.

“Criminal culpability is not determined by the instruments people employ but by the intent and conduct of the actor,” Pirro said at the time.

She has not explained why she believes carrying with a permit or possessing an unregistered gun, both restrictions that most of the country doesn’t have, should be treated differently. Either way, for the second time in just about a week, gun activists came away from the ordeal with a bad taste in their mouths.

“Ignorantly thumbing your nose at the right to keep and bear arms and then covering your ass by promoting a bill that still lets you cage and kill people for not having a D.C. permit is definitely a look,” the Firearms Policy Coalition posted to X.

The potential consequences of Pirro poking gun activists are clear, and several of those activists outraged by Pirro’s comments were willing to say them outright. As Trump and his party’s polling numbers sink and the midterm elections approach, his administration’s willingness to go after gun owners could come with a steep political cost.

“The Trump Administration needs to put a muzzle on certain people (sometimes even Trump himself) because they are doing real damage to perceptions, even as the Admin is making very real progress for 2A rights in a ton of ways,” [Kostas] Moros said. “Do they want gun rights-focused voters to show up in November or not?”

Gutowski points out how Pirro’s walkback didn’t really make anyone feel better about anything, with explicit quotes showing his work, and he’s right.

Look, the truth is that Pirro can opt to enforce whatever laws she wants to in her role as US attorney for DC. That doesn’t mean she can pretend that she’s pro-gun while enforcing the worst of those laws.

Not enforcing an open carry ban was a nice first step, but it’s only good as a first step. The other measures are what impact the vast majority of gun owners who live or work in the district, and if she’s not going to step up and address that, then all she’s done is put on a performance.

Which might not have been nearly as bad if it hadn’t happened just as folks were starting to move on from various Trump officials stepping in it with their own comments. We can shrug those off easily enough, but when Pirro threw not just gasoline into the dying fire, but thermite, things did what they were going to do.

Moros asks if the Trump administration wants gun owners to just stay home in November, and he’s not wrong to ask. After all, while it’s unlikely gun owners will vote for Democrats no matter what they’re saying about guns here and now, the reality is that they’re just not going to vote for someone who is still going to stomp on their right to keep and bear arms if given half a chance.

They’d rather just accept that everyone is against them and dig in than take part in their own destruction.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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