Breitbart News spoke exclusively with Gun Owners of America (GOA) senior vice president Erich Pratt Thursday and he made clear that GOA’s comments on exercising First and Second Amendment rights together were not specific to Alex Pretti. GOA is staunch defender of Second Amendment rights and has been vocal in support of exercising those rights in the days since Pretti took a gun with him in Minneapolis. (The video was taken 11 days before Pretti brought a gun with him to a protest and was fatally shot.) Their experience shows that Second Amendment rights and peaceful protest are not mutually exclusive. That is a no go.”AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News.