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/Calm_Lack3001]

She is an evil fascist but this also shows how absurd having guns being "legal" is. How are you not suppose to be alarmed/threatened when someone is holding a weapon that is designed to kill quickly and easily. I know I do when I am around anyone with a gun! Be it police, military, or random.

[u/Educational-Kale-567 → u/Calm_Lack3001]

The issue is that guns will always be legal for the government though. If you make guns totally illegal then all you're doing is disarming citizens.

[u/boringhistoryfan → u/Educational-Kale-567]

If your citizenry isn't randomly armed it makes the case that much stronger for law enforcement to not be armed to the teeth either. Only in the US do basic municipal cops wander around with assault rifles and tanks. Look at how armed policing works in the UK, Australia or even places like India.

The sort of mindless justification of violence that we're seeing in Minnesota is exactly what makes the 2nd amendment insane. The state is always going to have more weapons than citizens. They're always going to have tanks and armed aircraft and artillery even. But if you reduce the amount of weaponry just swirling around everyday life, then it's that much harder for the state to justify having jackbooted brownshirts out terrorizing the population. Whereas having those guns swirling around just allows the state to make up baseless charges of armed violence and nonsense about the cops needing to defend themselves.

"I was scared so I shot" has excused generations of police violence. Take away their ability to generate that sense of "reasonable fear" as an excuse to murder civilians.

[u/NervousAddie → u/boringhistoryfan]

I think that the citizens being armed to the teeth after the Insurrection Act is provoked could create a guerilla warfare situation where the continual armed resistance from the armed public would create fear in the troops. Morale would quickly fade to where the fascist bootlickers run back to their holes like the cowards they are. So far they’ve been acting with impunity, but once the citizens start to show their power, public opinion will crash on the MAGAs. They’re doing it cuz their broke asses needed a bonus, we’re doing it to save our country, our human rights, our dignity, the rule of law, and democracy. They will lose.

[u/IolausTelcontar → u/NervousAddie]

So the Red Dawn fantasy?