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Alex Pretti

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was in the crowd

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protesting the enforcement

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surge and carrying

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a legally permitted gun

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when U.S. Border Patrol agents

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shot him dead.

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What lessons are we

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as a nation

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learning from all of this?

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Over the course of years

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and decades

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in a really bipartisan way

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let me be clear about that

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we have given prosecutors

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far, far more leeway

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to game the system

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and abuse the law

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than we had realized.

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We have relaxed and reduced

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sometimes

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through the actions and rulings

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of the U.S. Supreme Court

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sometimes through statutes

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and sometimes through

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political practice

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we have relaxed and reduced

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protections

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of constitutional rights

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where the First Amendment

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Second Amendment

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Fourth Amendment

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or Fifth Amendment

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all of which are

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implicated in the

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shooting of Alex Pretti

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by the way.

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We relax those protections

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in the interest of making

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the executive branch

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more powerful

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of making police

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more powerful

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and making prosecutors

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more powerful.

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In the past

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it's always been the case

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and maybe it's still the case

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but as long as it was

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the other side politically

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that was suffering

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we would say, 'Oh, well

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that's fine with us.'

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What we continue to

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seem to be unable

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to recognize as a nation

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is that

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we all need these protections

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because just because

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your side

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is abusing the system now

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doesn't mean the other side

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won't abuse it later.

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It's just this basic

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fundamental notion

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of limited government

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under a constitution.

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And in the case of criminal

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and in the area

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of criminal prosecution

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those guardrails have slipped

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dramatically.