Pretti, 37, was a licensed gun owner in a state where carrying a gun openly is legal. He certainly had every right to carry a gun,” Tarnove said. Now, Jewish gun owners are confronting a tension that has emerged between their right to bear arms and the federal government’s response to armed civilians. “My personal opinion is that he was executed,” said J.N., a 59-year-old Jewish gun owner in the Washington, D.C., suburbs who requested anonymity to protect his employment. While both Trump administration officials and some Jewish voices have called such comparisons inappropriate, for J.N., the similarities rang true.