The Second Amendment and Pretti’s MurderFor decades, conservative advocates have championed this interpretation of the Second Amendment. These are textbook Fourth and Fifth Amendment violations—the very tyranny the Second Amendment was supposedly designed to check. The Second Amendment is celebrated when “our side” carries guns, condemned when “their side” does. You can’t champion the Second Amendment while ignoring Fourth Amendment violations. He stood up against what he saw as tyranny and exercised his Second Amendment rights while doing so.