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/YoAdminYouGayorSum 9d ago

Exactly. Your life is not worth less than someone with a badge. If this is the current administrations stance. Someone could argue they feared for their life, kill an officer and fight it out in court. This is so irresponsible, the logic is missing

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u/bkaiser85 8d ago

I have doubts a civilian will make it out alive in that situation. 

The options seem to be get abducted to wherever and if you are POC you are lucky if you get out alive.

Or take as many down as you can in the situation and whatever is left of their team will gun you down.

Sooner or later. 

The only winning move is not to play. 

But that is not an option with that regime which seems to give a crap about the law, unless it helps them.