Reckless Ignorance

Reckless Ignorance, Manufactured Outrage, and the Real Threat to Public Safety

The result of political indoctrination!

At a so-called “No Kings” rally in Pueblo, Colorado, a woman brought a loaded firearm into a heated political protest, escalated a confrontation, and reached for her weapon, forcing volunteer security to physically intervene. Police later arrested her and charged her with felony menacing and disrupting a lawful assembly. This was not speculation. This was documented by witnesses, video, and law enforcement.

Let’s be very clear: this is not activism. This is recklessness.

Introducing a firearm into a volatile First Amendment event is not protected speech. It is injecting lethal force into an emotionally charged environment, where tempers flare, crowds compress, and misunderstandings escalate in seconds. This is exactly how avoidable tragedies happen.

Yet this incident is being defended, excused, or downplayed - all in service of a political slogan built on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the United States government works.

America Has No King - and Never Did

The United States does not have a king.
The President is not a monarch.
And enforcing immigration law does not make any president a tyrant.

Congress writes immigration law.
Federal agencies enforce it.
The President oversees that enforcement as part of his constitutional duty.

This is not authoritarianism.
This is basic constitutional governance.

Calling lawful enforcement “tyranny” does not make it so. It only reveals how detached political rhetoric has become from reality.

The Real Danger: Manufactured Outrage and Political Radicalization

The “No Kings” narrative thrives on emotional manipulation, not facts. It feeds people a steady diet of:

• False oppression narratives

• Distorted legal realities

• Simplistic slogans replacing civic understanding

When people are convinced that lawful governance is tyranny, they begin to justify extreme responses - including confrontation, intimidation, and in this case, the introduction of deadly force into public protest.

This is not hypothetical.
This is exactly what happened in Pueblo.

The result is chaos disguised as activism, and lawlessness framed as moral virtue.

Public Safety Is Not Optional

Putting everyone in danger
is not a right!

Bringing a firearm into a heated protest is not neutral conduct. It is a conscious decision to escalate risk.

Crowded political demonstrations contain:

• High emotional intensity

• Elevated conflict potential

• Unpredictable crowd movement

• Split-second decision-making

In that environment, a single perceived threat can trigger panic, stampedes, defensive violence, or deadly misunderstandings.

This is why responsible gun owners understand context matters.

Public safety demands judgment, restraint, and situational awareness - not ideological posturing.

Accountability Matters - Especially When Patterns Emerge

For factual clarity: this individual had already been assigned community service by Pueblo Municipal Court for an unrelated violation prior to this rally.

That means court staff and community service supervisors are now being placed in direct proximity to someone who has demonstrated profoundly poor judgment involving public safety and firearms.

This raises a legitimate concern:

Why are we prioritizing ideological sympathy over responsible risk assessment?

Accountability must be rooted in public protection, not political convenience.

Selective Outrage Is Moral Failure

If you know the names of political activists and protest slogans, but have no idea who Lizabeth Medina, Ruby Garcia, George Levin, Camilla Williams, Jamiel Shaw II, and countless other American citizens are - innocent citizens who were killed by illegal immigrants who should never have been in this country - then you are not informed. You are indoctrinated.

These victims are not statistics.
They are sons.
Daughters.
Mothers.
Fathers.
Friends.

Their families live with permanent loss - while political movements erase their suffering in favor of ideological narratives.

This is not compassion.
This is selective empathy driven by political alignment.

The Real Threat to Democracy Is Civic Illiteracy

A population that does not understand how laws are written, enforced, or governed is easily manipulated.

When people are taught:

• That enforcement equals oppression

• That borders equal cruelty

• That law equals tyranny

They stop defending constitutional order and start attacking it.

That is how democratic societies destabilize - not through force, but through ignorance.

Responsibility Belongs Where the Recklessness Lives

This incident was not caused by tyranny.
It was not caused by immigration enforcement.
It was not caused by presidential authority.

It was caused by reckless behavior fueled by political misinformation.

The responsibility lies squarely on:

• Movements that distort law into oppression

• Leaders who inflame rather than educate

• Activists who confuse outrage with virtue

Public safety demands truth, accountability, and restraint.

Without those, chaos becomes inevitable.

And chaos is exactly what reckless ignorance produces.