Odette Yousef

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Minnesota shooting blurs political lines around guns · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

So that was a huge shift that took place five or six years ago.

I think we've seen reporting that indicates that things such as the reelection of Donald Trump has caused more people from the left to learn how to use firearms and so on.

I just don't know if I can say that the growth in interest among people on the left in other parts of the country equals what happened in Minneapolis as a result of the George Floyd killing.

Right.

I mean, so when I was there last year, you know, I went to a firing range with Kimmy Hall.

She's the founder of that group, Security, that I was profiling.

And, you know,

know basically observed while she was doing training with one of her clients and you know i spoke with that client afterward this was a trans individual who never imagined that they would be training to own a firearm that you know they they have children at home and don't like the idea of having a firearm at home

But because of the rhetoric that surrounded trans identity and so on in the run up to the 2024 election, they felt that it was actually imprudent to not have a firearm and know how to use it.

And so that that's been kind of an interesting thing about this is, you know, that individual and the other individuals that Kimmy's told me she's been working

basically working with more recently are people that are reluctant gun owners.

They do not want to have to take their safety to that degree upon themselves.

But because they have lost faith in institutions of law enforcement, you know, five years ago, local law enforcement, and now with federal agents on the streets there, they have felt pushed to do this.

Oh, no, they have not been well received.

We've seen statements from the NRA and gun owners of America, you know, to the effect of, you know, if you are lawfully carrying a gun where you have a legal right to be, that's your constitutional right.

And the National Association for Gun Rights says

also took issue with the characterization that some administration officials have had around

the apparent two loaded magazines that Alex Preti was apparently carrying, you know, they were saying that that itself is also not incriminating.

You know, in fact, they call it standard.

So this is kind of remarkable because these are groups where, you know, folks might disagree over whether people should be outside on the streets documenting what ICE is doing, whether that constitutes unlawful interference with ICE activities and so on.

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