Late-night TV’s clown brigade lost their minds Monday night, with Stephen Colbert screaming F**k ICE on his CBS show, Jimmy Kimmel choking back tears, and Jon Stewart unleashing a predictably hysterical anti-gun tirade—all triggered by the Border Patrol agent’s justified shooting of armed felon Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Pretti, a violent career criminal with a rap sheet longer than Stewart’s list of failed predictions, charged at federal agents with a knife during a traffic stop gone sideways, forcing the officer to drop him in a textbook defensive gun use. But facts be damned: these comedy news hosts spun it into a federal conspiracy against muh rights, ignoring bodycam footage that clearly shows Pretti as the aggressor lunging like a rabid animal. Colbert’s profane meltdown wasn’t just unhinged; it was a desperate ratings grab, conflating law enforcement heroism with some imagined ICE Gestapo while conveniently forgetting that Border Patrol agents are outgunned daily by cartels flooding the border with military-grade hardware.
Stewart’s gun rant takes the cake for hypocrisy, wailing about easy access to firearms as if the agent’s Glock was the villain instead of Pretti’s felony warrant for domestic assault and his choice to play stab-happy hero. This is peak late-night fallacy: ignoring that the agent exercised Second Amendment principles in real time—right to self-defense against imminent deadly threat—while these elites virtue-signal from their armed-guard entourages. Context matters: Pretti wasn’t some innocent bystander; he was a repeat offender embodying the chaos of open borders, where agents face knife-wielding maniacs because politicians like those cheered by Colbert have turned the southwest into a warzone. Stewart’s Daily Show clip reeks of the same emotional manipulation that fueled post-Uvalde hysteria, but here the shooting saved lives, underscoring why armed good guys (LEOs included) are the best deterrent to armed bad guys.
For the 2A community, this is gold: every hysterical rant from these has-beens spotlights the cultural chasm between coastal elites and everyday Americans who understand that guns in responsible hands—agent or citizen—stop threats dead. It reinforces the imperative to push back with facts: share the bodycam, mock the tears, and remind voters that disarming protectors invites more Prettis. Late-night’s overreach could even boomerang, alienating normies who see through the profanity-laced propaganda and value agents keeping knives away from throats. Stay vigilant, 2A fam—this is why we fight narratives with truth.
