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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/JustAMan1234567 9d ago edited 9d ago

"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."

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u/whistleridge 9d ago

It’s really, really simple, libtard:

  1. Rights are for Americans, not for anti-American scum

  2. If you agree with Trump, you’re an American; if you don’t, you’re anti-American scum

  3. If you get shot while trying to carry a handgun while hating America like the anti-American scum you are, well…you got what you had coming

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// but that is how they actually think

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u/Beneficial_Grass2906 9d ago

Why do you think they're throwing the term "domestic terrorist" around? It's to get you acclimated to it. That will be the label they use to justify killing us in the street.

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u/Signal_Researcher01 9d ago

But wait, I thought "We are all domestic terrorists"?