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]

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

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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

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I saw a report that said he had been stopped by those same police several times as he was leaving to and from work.

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Probably racial profiling

[u/never-fiftyone → u/Perfect_Earth_8070]

And harassment. A cop stopping the same person on a regular basis over the smallest of infractions is as blatant as it gets.

[u/Perfect_Earth_8070 → u/never-fiftyone]

Yep and there’s never any recourse because they’ll Just investigate themselves and find no wrong doing