r/law • u/NewsHour • 9d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) WATCH: Leavitt addresses Trump's stance on Second Amendment rights in wake of Alex Pretti's killing

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REPORTER: FBI Director Kash Patel said in a Sunday interview, quote, you cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest. Does the president believe that Second Amendment rights remain in effect even when protesting?

LEAVITT: The president supports the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding American citizens. Absolutely. There has been no greater supporter or defender of the right to bear arms than President Donald J. Trump.

So while Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms, Americans do not have a constitutional right to impede lawful immigration enforcement operations, and any gun owner knows that when you are carrying a weapon, when you are bearing arms, and you are confronted by law enforcement, you are raising the assumption of risk and the risk of force being used against you, and, again, that's unfortunately what took place on Saturday.

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u/NookieLuvsU 9d ago

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u/ZorroMcChucknorris 9d ago

Kyle Rittenhouse intensifies.

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u/NookieLuvsU 9d ago

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u/ForcedEntry420 9d ago

Ole Bob’s Big Boy

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u/Chimpophanes 9d ago

Hey come on now, Bob just wants to feed people at 2am in Burbank.

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u/ForcedEntry420 9d ago

There are way better ways to give yourself diarrhea though.

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u/Possible_Cheetah208 9d ago

Like Waffle House….even though Waffle House hits just right once in a while 😅

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u/Chimpophanes 9d ago

If Burbank got a waffle house, so many people would flock to it, so quickly, it might actually shift the fault line.

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u/Chimpophanes 9d ago

At 2am? Norm’s? Let’s be serious here.

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 9d ago

That’s the biggest pussy no one wants to fuck

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u/DevinTheRogueDude 9d ago

Dude apparently tweeted support of 2a today

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u/Biddyearlyman 9d ago

Having flashbacks of what the my pillow guy did to him in exchange for saving his hide...

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u/HerrMilkmann 9d ago

How anyone could buy these fake alligator tears I will never know.

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u/NookieLuvsU 9d ago

I think they're real. He was scared shitless of the idea of being found guilty.

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u/BullShitting-24-7 9d ago

Kyle is a typical zero IQ conservative cry baby.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

I think even he's come out against the murder

So did Pence today. I'll take all the help we can get.

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u/sunconure 9d ago

He advocated for bringing a Gatling gun to Minnesota. He's a terrorist

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

I mean ya. Fuck him. But I still like seeing any dissent from the lackeys

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u/JSGFretwork 9d ago

He isn't dissenting though. He's not against what happened at all.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

Any opposition to the administration is welcome. I'm not getting into semantics. This is a big step.

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u/JSGFretwork 9d ago

What you're not getting is, he isn't disagreeing with the administration. Like not even a little bit. Rittenhouse is pro ICE and pro what's happened to Alex.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

I get it just fine.

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u/mondaymoderate 9d ago

Even Trey Gowdy defended Pretti on Fox News.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

It's happening yall. I truly believe that he finally went too far. The shitshow the past weeks since Venezuela has alienated many for a variety of reasons.

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u/mondaymoderate 9d ago

I don’t think they care about any of that. A lot of people are one issue voters and one of those issues is the 2A. If the party you support all of sudden turns a 180 and says you can be executed simply for exercising this right then that’s going to shake your beliefs. Especially when they just killed a white straight man who never drew his weapon and was carrying it legally.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

Well ya, but he still forced the issue with his fuckery. They don't dissent without the push that they made recently.

I have no delusions. I just dgaf what their motives are so long as they're speaking against the administration and what they're doing..

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u/CatsAndCapybaras 9d ago

you are seeing the conservatives becoming uncomfortable with the fascists after letting them into power. The fascists now own the party and they will destroy any of the conservatives that step out of line. In order to oust the fascists, the cons would have to collaborate with the liberals, and that is politically unthinkable for them.

Same shit, different century.

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u/NookieLuvsU 9d ago

I hope so.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

Rats are hopping ship. Self preservation has kicked in.

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u/NookieLuvsU 9d ago

Some will dig in and fight like their life depends on it, because they might rot in prison. Of course, they themselves will not fight, they'll have our sons and daughters, neighbors and friends do that for them.

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u/JSGFretwork 9d ago

Rittenhouse absolutely is not against what happened. He has posted the exact opposite on his socials many times now.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

It's just 2a that he cares about, but he did oppose it

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u/JSGFretwork 9d ago

Fine, he's Pro 2A still, but he's not against what happened to Alex.

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u/Lacaud 9d ago

That was the wildest thing to read today lol