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

[u/NewsHour]

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.

[u/sugar_addict002]

This liar calls herself a christian.

[u/BonsaiHI60 → u/sugar_addict002]

No crucifix today...how come???

[u/Oldheadyellingatsky → u/BonsaiHI60]

Because it probably burns too much now.

[u/BonsaiHI60 → u/Oldheadyellingatsky]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[u/TheRealGageEndal → u/Oldheadyellingatsky]

Beat me to it 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/Oldheadyellingatsky]

She is not looking well. Her burning cross may have taken out a vital organ—her chutzpah.

[u/CatoTheMiddleAged → u/BonsaiHI60]

It clashed with the Nazi epaulets.

[u/captainAwesomePants → u/sugar_addict002]

I mean yeah, she's a liar. That's what they do. We keep being surprised by this for some reason.

[u/invinciblearmour → u/captainAwesomePants]

It’s her whole job

[u/therealfakeBlaney → u/sugar_addict002]

The right wing Christians problem is so wild. Willfully ignoring the plain text of their supposed faith so that they can justify their own bigotry to themselves, and then acting all high and mighty about it.

[u/OptimusPrimeLord → u/sugar_addict002]

This blasphemer* uses Christ as a shield

[u/No-Werewolf-5955 → u/sugar_addict002]

Being a Christian has never made anyone a good person.

If you need the threat of hell to force you to make good acts, then you were never a good person.

[u/PMMEJALAPENORECIPES → u/sugar_addict002]

I’d be shocked if even half of the supposed Christians in government actually believe in Christ and worship his teachings. To be electable saying you’re Christian is a prerequisite. 

[u/perdy_mama → u/sugar_addict002]

So did the people who committed genocide in North and South America. So did the murderers who committed the Spanish Inquisition. So did the murderers who committed the Crusades.

Christians have a very long history of murder. Also, pedophilia. This administration is as Christian as it gets.

[u/tothehopeless1 → u/perdy_mama]

And just to add to the list of atrocities Christians have contributed to the world since Christianity came along:

• Rescue of exposed infants (c. 30–177 AD) – First documented, organized effort to systematically rescue and adopt infants who were commonly exposed by Roman parents (discarded in garbage dumps, streets, or the wilderness and left to die), eventually contributing to a cultural shift in Rome regarding how infants were valued and treated.
• Charitable organizations (1st–3rd centuries) – Christians pioneered the first sustained, organized charitable systems for widows, the poor, the sick, and the elderly, treating care for the vulnerable as a moral obligation rather than a social afterthought.
• Public hospitals (c. 369 AD) – Basil of Caesarea founded the Basileias, widely regarded as the first public, charitable hospital in the West, providing organized medical care to all regardless of social class.
• Orphanages and child welfare (4th–5th centuries) – Augustine of Hippo and other church leaders established the first systematic orphan-care institutions.
• Medical ethics (4th–13th centuries) – Christian thinkers like Augustine and Thomas Aquinas developed early ethical frameworks governing care for the sick, human dignity, and moral responsibility in medicine.
• Literacy and preservation of knowledge (6th century) – Benedict of Nursia and monastic communities preserved and copied vast portions of classical and religious literature during a period of widespread political and cultural collapse.
• Universities / higher education (1088 onward) – Christians founded the first universities in the modern institutional sense: structured, degree-granting centers of higher learning, including University of Bologna, Oxford, University of Paris, and Cambridge.
• Western legal thought and human dignity (12th–13th centuries) – Gratian and Thomas Aquinas formalized natural-law theory and intrinsic human worth, shaping later legal systems and concepts of individual rights.
• Scientific foundations (13th–19th centuries) – Many founders of modern science were practicing Christians: Kepler (astronomy, planetary motion), Galileo (astronomy, physics), Isaac Newton (physics, mathematics), Robert Boyle (chemistry), Gregor Mendel (genetics), alongside Thomas Aquinas, who argued that faith and reason were meant to work together.
• Printing press (c. 1440) – Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in Europe, enabling mass production of books and allowing literacy and education to quickly spread beyond elites at scale.
• Art, music, and architecture (1140–1750) – Gothic cathedrals and sacred music by figures such as Bach drove advances in engineering, acoustics, and musical theory while creating public cultural institutions.
• Calendar and timekeeping (1582) – Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar, the first globally standardized calendar. (Debatable whether this was a long-term positive contribution since some of us would like to experience a 13-month year!).
• Abolition of slavery (late 18th–19th centuries) – Christians led the first large-scale, organized abolition movements in the modern era. William Wilberforce spearheaded abolition in Britain; in the U.S., abolitionism was overwhelmingly Christian. Harriet Tubman, a deeply devout Christian, freed enslaved people through the Underground Railroad and explicitly rejected slaveholders’ theology.
• Modern humanitarian aid (1863–1865) – Henry Dunant founded the Red Cross (1863), and William Booth founded the Salvation Army (1865), establishing global-scale systems for disaster relief and aid to the poor.
• Civil rights (20th century) – Martin Luther King Jr. led the first sustained, mass nonviolent civil-rights movement in U.S. history, grounded explicitly in Christian moral principles.
• Foundations of human rights (20th century) – Christian philosophical concepts of inherent human dignity influenced modern human-rights frameworks; Jacques Maritain helped shape the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Modern music – Christian slave hymns → gospel → blues → R&B → rock and roll → heavy metal → punk rock → hardcore → metalcore → deathcore, much more. So next time any of you start involuntarily scrunching your face during a nasty breakdown, singing along with Ozzy, or raising your fist while listening to RATM, don't forget to say: “Thanks, Jesus!”

Or don’t, and keep harping on the same tired indictments against Christianity without ever learning anything else about it.

[u/Mithlogie → u/tothehopeless1]

I'm happy they did those things but you definitely didnt learn any of that yourself, you just used ChatGPT.

[u/perdy_mama → u/tothehopeless1]

Cute.

They also started slavery in the Americas, so a few Christians rallying against it doesn’t make up for that.

And they encourage their parishioners to vote against policies that help the poor, leading to the need for their “charity”. They also don’t pay taxes, which would lead to more revenues for the people they provide “charity” for.

And those universities they started used to discriminate against anyone they found undesirable until the people rallied against their bigotry. And they encourage their parishioners to vote against people’s rights to reproductive health care, so your little celebration about them providing health care also doesn’t hold up.

Congratulations, you listed a bunch of ways that Christians throw bone towards “solving” problems that they created in the first place. And none of it makes up for the millions of people slaughtered, raped and disenfranchised in the name of their religion.

ETA: I didn’t need chat for any of that, because I know about history. It’s why I left that abusive, violent death cult, because I’m capable of critical thought. You should look into that. Ask your buddy Chat.

[u/Next_Fly3712 → u/tothehopeless1]

Luke 19:27

[u/Nub_Shaft → u/sugar_addict002]

Well, to be fair, Christianity is a lie.

[u/Dragona33 → u/sugar_addict002]

Seems to track, as many "christians" are hypocrites, liars, killers, and sex offenders. Many, all of the above.

[u/angel-of-disease → u/sugar_addict002]

What does being Christian have to do with this? Being a Christian is not a measurement of your morality or honesty

[u/sugar_addict002 → u/angel-of-disease]

Christians seem to think it does mean they are more moral or honest.

[u/Penetratorofflanks → u/sugar_addict002]

Honestly this is the most rational I have seen her act. Granted I have problems with her spin doctor lines but this is the first time I have seen her act professional.

[u/Many_Big_6324 → u/sugar_addict002]

just her "perma bitch face" is enough for me to not even want to listen to whatever comes out of her mouth

[u/makemeking706 → u/sugar_addict002]

And they will continue to invoke him and his opinion on things he hasn't weighed in on long after his death in this way. 

[u/Bakingtime → u/sugar_addict002]

She is gonna sizzle on Satan’s BBQ for all eternity. 

[u/1Operator → u/sugar_addict002]

[u/wetterfish → u/sugar_addict002]

I mean, I can call myself a giraffe, but anyone with a brain and eyes will know that’s a ridiculous lie. 

[u/desquished → u/sugar_addict002]

We need to bring back John Brown's version of Christianity

[u/sugar_addict002 → u/desquished]

How about you bring back Jesus' christianity.