Minnesota shooting blurs political lines around guns

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast for Thursday, January 29th, 2026.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I cover the White House.

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  I'm Mara Eliasson, senior national political correspondent.

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  And we're joined by domestic extremism correspondent Odette Youssef.

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  Hi Odette.

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  Hey Tamara.

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  We are recording this at 1.05 p.m.

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  Eastern time and today we're looking at how the fatal shooting of Alex Pretty by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis is scrambling the political lines around guns.

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  President Trump's response to the shooting, specifically the fact that Pretty was carrying a gun,

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  has sparked pushback from the NRA and other Second Amendment advocates.

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  We're going to get into that in a minute.

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  But first, Odette, I want to ask you about some of your recent reporting.

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  We typically think of gun rights as a conservative cause,

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  but that's not what you've found to be the case in Minneapolis, right?

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