A raging MAGA agitator... looking for a fight and when she got it, she reached for her gun........

[riversedge]

You can see her reaching for her gun she was packing--then Security jumped on her. But at the beginning of the video, they seemed to just let her rage.

BREAKING: A raging MAGA agitator showed up to the No Kings protest looking for a fight and when she got it, she reached for her gun. These people aren’t “patriots,” they’re powder kegs with Fox News triggers. Completely unhinged.

Link to tweet

[jmbar2]

1. Security did a good job!

They were right where they needed to be. Kudos.

[patphil]

2. Open carry at a contentious demonstration is a recipe for disaster.

We got lucky this time, the security people saw the potential and were right with her before she could do harm.

[Kaleva]

7. So would concealed carry

[patphil]

25. That's worse, because security wouldn't be alert to the potential for violence until it was too late.

Both are bad for America. This isn't 1870's wild west, guns don't belong on the streets.

[artemisia1]

30. Actually, most towns had strict no-carry within the city limits and enforced them. The Gunfight at the OK Corral was

over disarming a group that was carrying in violation.

[Attilatheblond]

3. Delusional people sometimes become violent when their delusions are challenged or disproven

Sadly, there will likely be others who can't face reality and will try to force others to participate in their delusions. Keep your eyes open and DO NO ENGAGE WITH FOOLS

[blubunyip]

5. Absolutely

DO NOT ENGAGE, no matter how tempting the bait.

[johnnyfins]

4. Hell hath no fury like a Karen with a glock

[lame54]

9. Dirty Karen

[LT Barclay]

14. Ooooh, that's good!

[johnnyfins]

15. "Dirty Karen"

Seriously, though. Imagine if she would have started firing. WTAF?

[dchill]

18. 'you've gotta ask yourself one question: '

'“Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?”'

[D_Master81]

6. This is why a lot of the self defense talk is BS

On its face I fully support someone being able to defend themselves. However it seems to me that a lot of people don’t know how to or don’t choose to deescalate a situation. Or go looking for a fight and then claim they had to take a life to defend themself.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. so, she had , just had to pull her gun on peacefull demonstrators? gah. snork.

to security.

[Attilatheblond]

12. More on this story, from the guy who stopped her from pulling gun from holster

https://krdo.com/news/2025/06/15/volunteer-security-stops-woman-with-gun-amid-pueblo-no-kings-rally/]

Initially, she was frustrated trying to get thru the crowd. He helped her navigate and asked where she wanted to be. He did everything right, but he shouldn't have had to. Law and order? Self defense? That doesn't seem to be the real reason too many strap on a gun and go where they obviously will not be part of the majority opinion.

"I saw this woman, and she had a Trump hat on a camo one, and she was just yelling and kind of, you know, just trying to get through the crowd. So me being the role that I was in, my first instinct was I went up and I was like, Ma'am, where do you want to go? Like, I'll happily escort you in whatever direction you want. And so I was escorting her in one direction, she changed her mind and went to go another direction," Martin detailed.

He says they stepped to the side to figure out which way she wanted to go, when a protester started to yell at the woman Martin was escorting.*

"She hit and unbuckled her holster, and it was a two-button holster. So, bam, unbuttoned it. And, you can see in the video, my hands are up and I'm, I'm standing behind her and I'm just saying ma'am, please don't do this," recounted Martin.

He tells KRDO13 another security guard nearby was pleading to the woman, "don't grab the gun, don't grab the gun, don't grab the gun."

Martin tells KRDO13 as soon as he saw her grab it is when he grabbed her. He took the woman to the ground on a platform in the Sister Cities Plaza in Pueblo. Martin explained that there was a group of elderly ladies in the area and that's where his mind went in the moments leading up to the tackle.

*When your local organizers say 'don't engage with opposition' there is a reason. Follow the good advice.

[enigmania]

10. I hate these rednecks.

[irisblue]

11. Any follow up on Ms MAGA

[Attilatheblond]

13. Arrested. No word yet on charges

https://krdo.com/news/2025/06/15/volunteer-security-stops-woman-with-gun-amid-pueblo-no-kings-rally/

[hamsterjill]

24. Why hasn't SHE been identified.

That always makes me so mad. These idiots need to be made public so that their friends and neighbors know who they really are.

[NBachers]

28. If you follow the KRDO link above: Laura Hall, 54. Felony charges:

On Monday morning, the Pueblo Police Department said the woman has been identified as Laura Hall, age 54. Police say she was charged with felony menacing with a deadly weapon and disrupting a lawful assembly.

Let’s hope she can’t plead it down to misdemeanors. I want her convicted of a felony and completely deprived of her gun “rights.“

[mitch96]

23. M.A.G.A. aka Morons Are Governing America. Seen on a protest sign and it fits perfectly...nt

[thought crime]

16. That was a close one!

You can never forget that America is an armed camp. People who show up with weapons on display are just waiting to be triggered.

[sop]

17. Not a moment too soon. Had that woman's finger reached the trigger, the pistol would have discharged in the struggle.

I know a couple of idiots who open carry; it's not about self defense, it's about intimidation.

[Old Crow]

19. Idiot.

Wears a gun in a chaotic environment, looking for conflict, then unsnaps her holster, then reaches for her gun. Again: Idiot. On the basis of this video footage, she should be prohibited from ever owning a handgun again.

[Kaleva]

22. I doubt she's had any training at all.

Not even the NRA teaches people to do what she did.

[Lokee11]

29. On the basis of the video

She should be on her way to a dirt nap - seen many many other people get shot for less. many many people of a certain "kind".

I have no empathy for any of them anymore - if excessive force would have been used here to "calm" the situation, I would have been like "Gotta do what ya gotta do" - these Morons that Are Governing America, have turned me into a hateful hateful person - and I truly HATE them for it. Fuck' EM ALL!

✊FDT!

[maxsolomon]

20. Elizabeth Hokoana, University of Washington campus, Jan 20, 2017.

MFer's 1st inauguration day.

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/405-winter-2020/seattle-far-right-shooters-trial-ends-in-hung-jury/

She pulled out a gun and shot Josh Dukes point blank because he stopped her POS husband who was pepper-spraying protestors.

A King Co. (Seattle) jury let both of them walk. Nullified.

[paulkienitz]

21. all right wing movements, in the end, believe in violence as their fallback strategy

[applegrove]

26. My God!

[markodochartaigh]

27. Who are these security people?

What is their training? Are any of them armed? What is their legal liability, the legal liability of the sponsoring organization? Very many of the people who will wear a gun will be ready to sue over any real or perceived slight.
And, most importantly, where were the police? Like them or not we pay for them to keep order. They should be held accountable when they fail, as they did here. Protest is our right under the Constitution, at least until the Republicans can get it changed. But the police have a responsibility to see that protests, which must be scheduled and cleared in advance, are held safely. If, because some reich-wing whackjobs on the supremacist court interpret the 2nd amendment in a certain way, safety means that each side must be kept apart the distance of a sniper rifle shot, then that is the reality in which we live.

[Torchlight]

31. I imagine she's pretty typical of her clan.

I can see why so many would be in a rush to disavow her now that the narrative's been blown. Again.

[Initech]

32. Fox News wants unhinged and bloodshed. That's good for their ratings.

A peaceful and prosperous America isn't in Rupert Murdoch's best interests. Fuck him, his shitty president, his shitty cabinet, and everyone connected to this shitty network.

[Wifes husband]

33. This is why open carry is stupid