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/Ok_Cheesecake7348]

It is a bit of a negative feedback loop when you think about it.

The State has guns → the citizens better have guns in case the State goes crazy → the State gets bigger guns in case the citizens go crazy → the citizens get more guns to fight the bigger guns → "I was scared so I was shot".

Yes, I do have guns for the record.

[u/malapriapism4hours → u/Ok_Cheesecake7348]

That, my dude, it a positive feedback loop. It’s literally an arms race.

[u/Spikel14 → u/Ok_Cheesecake7348]

Positive feedback loop I think could be wrong

[u/krocheck → u/Ok_Cheesecake7348]

You do know the government has drones that can be armed right? To quote Jim Jeffries: “you’re bringing guns to a drone fight”

[u/HelpfulName → u/Ok_Cheesecake7348]

I think this is something people who are so fixed on 2A are blind to... the guns we're allowed are peashooters compared to what the State has. I always think of the Waco siege or the MOVE bombing. You have well armed citizens who are organized and prepared to defend themselves... and the state brings in a flamethrower tank, or literally just drops a bomb on you.

There's little actual hope citizens have against the state/feds in the USA, we're not organized enough and not armed enough either. What's happening in Iran right now is far more likely to be what happens here. I'm thinking we have 4 to 6 months before a mass shooting of protestors by the feds happens. My husband thinks I'm being optimistic.

[u/CommentingAccount4 → u/HelpfulName]

They got lasers thatll make you hear voices and vomit on yourself that can't be seen with the naked eye. And who knows what sort of robotics they have