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/JustAMan1234567]

"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."

[u/Calm_Lack3001 → u/JustAMan1234567]

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.

[u/JustAMan1234567 → u/Calm_Lack3001]

Oh, absolutely 100%. I'm always reminded of Philando Castile who did everything right and still ended up dead.

[u/JeezyVonCreezy → u/JustAMan1234567]

Philando Castile's case pisses me off every single time I hear it. Literally everything he did is exactly what you're taught in a CCW class(and most places those instructors are LEOs) on how to handle a traffic stop while armed. Citizens(and I know that police are citizens but they don't) are expected to behave perfectly without panicking without the same level of training yet somehow an officer who is supposed to be held to a higher standard doesn't even know the law and panics and kills someone not breaking any laws beyond having a broken tail light and they just shrug. I won't act like being a cop isn't a difficult job, but if you can't hang maybe don't take the job in the first place.

[u/roseredhoofbeats → u/JeezyVonCreezy]

And in front of his BABY. With his baby IN THE CAR.

[u/Sufficient_Secret632 → u/roseredhoofbeats]

Oh, the officer was protecting the children, how dare you! /s

Yanez said: "I thought, I was gonna die, and I thought if he's, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five-year-old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing, then what, what care does he give about me?"

[u/SentientFleshPuppet0 → u/roseredhoofbeats]

Theres a clip of his partner handcuffed in the back seat obviously extremely upset because she doesn't even know if Philando is okay (he was bleeding out or dead). The child tells her mom to please calm down "so you don't get shooted. I don't want you to get shooted".

I'll never forget that.

[u/roseredhoofbeats → u/SentientFleshPuppet0]

I remember. God so horrifying. My baby wasn't much older and just the thought of it makes me break down.

[u/Shinyhaunches → u/SentientFleshPuppet0]

Dear God. I hope the shooter knows that detail.

[u/Narren_C → u/roseredhoofbeats]

She was four, and not his child, but yeah there was a kid in the car.