Music producer Finneas O’Connell, better known as Billie Eilish’s brother and Oscar-winning collaborator on No Time to Die, unleashed a fiery anti-2A rant on social media after a federal ICE agent shot and killed a 41-year-old Venezuelan national in Minneapolis. The incident unfolded Saturday when Juan Claudio Dávila pulled a loaded handgun during an ICE operation targeting illegal immigrants, forcing agents to defend themselves in a chaotic confrontation. Instead of condemning the armed suspect—who had no business brandishing a firearm amid a lawful enforcement action—Finneas decried America’s gun culture, declaring that no one should be able to carry a gun in America and calling for a total stripping of carry rights. His emotional outburst, laced with Hollywood sanctimony, ignored the agent’s split-second decision to neutralize a direct threat, turning a clear case of justified use of force into fodder for disarmament fantasies.

This knee-jerk reaction exemplifies the celebrity playbook: cherry-pick a tragedy, skip the facts, and pivot to civilian disarmament. Context matters—Dávila wasn’t some law-abiding concealed carrier exercising his rights; he was an illegal immigrant with a rap sheet, escalating a routine ICE stop into a deadly standoff. Finneas’s call to ban carry rights doesn’t just disrespect the agent’s heroism; it endangers everyone by pretending criminals will obey laws that only hobble the good guys. Data from the Crime Prevention Research Center shows permitless carry states like Texas and Florida have seen violent crime plummet post-constitutional carry, while defensive gun uses outnumber criminal ones by orders of magnitude annually (over 2 million per CDC estimates). Hollywood elites like Finneas, cocooned by armed security, push policies that leave ordinary Americans defenseless against exactly the threats ICE was addressing.

For the 2A community, this is a rallying cry: Finneas’s viral tirade amplifies the post-Bruen pushback from gun-grabbers desperate to erode SCOTUS’s carry protections. It underscores the need to flood the zone with counter-narratives—highlight ICE’s vindication, the suspect’s criminality, and real-world stats proving armed citizens save lives. As blue-city crime surges and borders remain porous, expect more armed encounters like this; Finneas’s solution? Disarm the protectors. 2A warriors, arm yourselves with truth: share this story, debunk the spin, and keep carrying—because when seconds count, the state won’t always be there first.