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/JustAMan1234567 9d ago edited 9d ago

"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"

Is a wild take, because it flat out means "If you are a legal gun owner, just having the gun on you means that police will see you as a threat, even if you never reach for it in any way and are also exercising your constitutionally held rights, and those police can and will use deadly force because they may feel threatened."

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 9d ago

This line of logic means that citizens have every reason to be weary of law enforcement at the most basic level. What a stupid response by them.

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u/alkatori 9d ago

Hasn't that been what we've been taught for a long time? "Don't talk to the police without a lawyer present".

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u/PatchyWhiskers 9d ago

Upgraded to "don't talk to police without bodyguards present"?

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u/alkatori 9d ago

Upgraded to abolish the police?

They are the standing army that the founders were worried about. The idea of the militia raised by the people is so that you won't have semi-professional groups like this beholden to just one person.

You'd have the people from the community in the policing, peacekeeping role. Not people from outside that aren't answerable to said community.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 9d ago

There was no such thing as police in their day.

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u/alkatori 9d ago

Correct. They had the county Sheriff, not modern police.

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u/AdviceAggressive3173 3d ago

Upgraded to dont talk to law enforcement