Wunmi Mosaku, the talented actress lighting up screens in the 2025 horror flick Sinners and as a key player in Disney+’s Loki, just scored an Oscar nomination—a career milestone most performers would pop champagne over. But in a recent interview, she’s hitting pause on the festivities, citing her inability to celebrate amid the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. For those not glued to the headlines, Good was a 19-year-old LSU student shot dead in a random road rage incident in Baton Rouge last month, while Pretti, a 19-year-old college freshman, was gunned down in a targeted attack outside a gym in Pennsylvania shortly after. Both tragedies are heartbreaking, no doubt, but Mosaku’s framing ties her personal boycott of joy directly to America’s gun violence epidemic, positioning these deaths as emblematic of a broader societal failure.
What’s clever—and telling—here is how Mosaku, a British-Nigerian import thriving in Hollywood, leverages her platform to amplify a narrative that skips straight past the gritty details: Good’s killer was a repeat offender with a rap sheet longer than a Loki storyline, out on bail despite prior gun charges, courtesy of a justice system more focused on catch-and-release than consequences. Pretti’s murderer? A career criminal illegally packing heat, fresh off dodging deportation. These aren’t tales of lawful gun owners gone rogue; they’re failures of prosecution, borders, and soft-on-crime policies that let predators roam free with firearms they shouldn’t have touched. Mosaku’s Oscar glow-up becomes a pulpit for the usual anti-2A sermon—guns bad, celebrate nothing—ignoring how armed good guys stop far more threats than they create, per FBI stats showing defensive gun uses outnumbering criminal ones by orders of magnitude.
For the 2A community, this is a textbook teachable moment: Hollywood elites like Mosaku don’t just mourn; they curate grief to fuel disarmament agendas, conflating criminal misuse with constitutional carry. Implications? As Oscars season ramps up, expect more stars to echo this vibe, turning red carpets into rally cries that demonize the very right protecting folks from the Renee Goods and Alex Prettis of the world. 2A advocates, counter with facts—highlight the 500,000+ annual defensive uses (CDC estimates), the plummeting crime in shall-issue states, and the real villains: defund-the-police DAs and open-border chaos. Mosaku’s nomination is hers to savor or sour; ours is reminding America that the Second Amendment isn’t the sinner—it’s the shield. Stay vigilant, patriots; the culture war’s just heating up.
