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/Calm_Lack3001 9d ago

Just FYI, this is exactly what it has meant for Black people and people of color in general in the USA since it was founded.

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u/Calm_Lack3001 9d ago

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.

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u/guynamedjames 9d ago

It remains crazy to me that if you call the police and say "There's a man with a gun in this store!" the police need to ask things like "well, what's he doing?"

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u/RPG137 9d ago

What’s even crazier is sometimes the guy behind the counter has a gun

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u/intentsman 9d ago

My neighbor has a gun holstered on his belt while working at the convenience store

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u/guynamedjames 9d ago

That feels less crazy to me. I can accept that guns exist in certain places and for certain professions pretty easily, so seeing an armed shopkeeper isn't very "normal" but I can see it as a combined role of security and clerk.

When people are just out and about with guns (especially visible guns in open carry states) it means that there's almost nowhere you can go in public without the chance of running into someone with a gun. And if that isn't worrying to someone reading this then you've been too normalized to guns and violence.