Alex Pretti

2025-2026 Bill 5034: Alex Pretti - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5034
STATUS INFORMATION
House Resolution
Sponsors: Rep. Bauer
Document Path: LC-0267HA-KAR26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 28, 2026
Currently residing in the House Committee on
Invitations and Memorial Resolutions
Summary: Alex Pretti
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

1/28/2026

House

Introduced (
House Journal-page 394
)

1/28/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Invitations and Memorial Resolutions
(
House Journal-page 394
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
01/28/2026

A
house
RESOLUTION

TO HONOR ALEX
PRETTI AND HIS COMMITMENT TO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND CIVIC VALUES, TO CONDEMN
HIS MURDER BY FEDERAL AGENTS, AND TO CALL ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO HOLD TO
ACCOUNT THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO VIOLATE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF UNITED
STATES CITIZENS.

W
hereas, on January 24,
2026, Alex Pretti, a thirty-seven-year-old intensive care nurse at a VA
hospital, was murdered by a United States Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis,
Minnesota; and

W
hereas, the Second
Amendment to the United States Constitution affirms the right of citizens to
keep and bear arms as an essential liberty fundamental to a free society; and

W
hereas, Alex Pretti
owned a handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota, a
state that does not restrict permit carriers from having firearms at protests.
Lawful possession of a weapon is the essence of the Second Amendment; and

W
hereas, civic
participation, in the form of protests, allows citizens to actively engage in
the defense of their constitutional rights and is not a justification for
murder at the hands of federal agents; and

W
hereas, federal agents,
who are expected to preserve and protect the public and uphold the protections
guaranteed by the United States Constitution, must be held accountable for
justifying the force that led to the murder of a lawful gun owner; and

W
hereas, recently, some
federal agents have begun using masks to hide their identity while invoking the
power and authority of the United States government, making it difficult to
identify agents who exceed the scope and authority of their duties while also heightening
tensions among peaceful individuals merely exercising the constitutional rights
that these agents are meant to uphold and protect; and

W
hereas, constitutional
principles and civic engagement must never be used to perpetuate ongoing
violence and fear or to rationalize actions of the federal government against
individuals exercising their constitutional rights. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, honor Alex Pretti and his commitment to constitutional
rights and civic values, condemn his murder by federal agents, and call on the
federal government to hold to account those individuals who violate the
constitutional rights of United States citizens.

B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to the members of the South
Carolina congressional delegation.

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