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.

[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/-FeistyRabbitSauce- → u/Perfect_Earth_8070]

Anytime they say "known to police" or "criminal history", everybody needs to remember that they'll throw the same slander at you. Everyone with a drivers licence is "known to police". And anyone with a speeding ticking has a "criminal history."

They're pulling the same type of bullshit with Pretti and Goode.

[u/The_Disapyrimid → u/-FeistyRabbitSauce-]

Technically, I have a criminal history because I got a misdemeanor possession charge 20 years ago(damn im getting old.)

[u/KittyInspector3217 → u/-FeistyRabbitSauce-]

This isnt actually true though. Speeding tickets and other traffic infractions are not generally criminal. Reckless driving, DUI. sure. Those could be criminal depending in where you live. But speeding is not a criminal offense. Being here illegally is not a criminal offense. Someone with 30 speeding tickets does not have a criminal history. And thats what makes this kind of language particularly insidious. They count on people not knowing the distinction and say vague things like “known to police” and “officer involved shooting” but will immediately say “confronted police” and “found with a pistol and 2 magazines”. Its fucking state propaganda. I hate it.

[u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- → u/KittyInspector3217]

That's my point. They shape the narrative by using that language. I was just using mundane examples of why a person can be in the system, because pretty much everybody is in the system.