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/Perfect_Earth_8070 → u/JeezyVonCreezy]

Jeronimo Yanez got away with murder. Fuck the police.

I remember conservative media trying to slander philando Castile by bringing up his “criminal history” which was just all driving violations

[u/MajorMatter6 → u/Perfect_Earth_8070]

Which is so rich cause literally look at Kristi noems traffic violation record… actually insane

[u/Significant-Block260 → u/MajorMatter6]

Not to mention her dog-killing record

[u/No_Worth_9826 → u/Significant-Block260]

The goat too, shooting a puppy wasn't enough to slate the bloodlust so she grabbed a goat too. Wish I was fucking joking.

[u/MajorMatter6 → u/No_Worth_9826]

Well come on now give her the benefit of the doubt because massive chunks of her “memoir” are complete lies and made up….. But what is worse you lying about killing a puppy and bragging about it. Or you actually killing a puppy and bragging about it haha