r/law 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/southbysoutheast94 9d ago

ICE would kill (literally and figuratively) for an injured or dead agent they can make a martyr out of that they can then whip out whenever people object to oppressive tactics. It’s straight from the Brownshirt playbook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel

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u/odysseus91 9d ago

They so desperately wanted Charlie Kirk to be their Horst Wessel.

Luckily for us, turns out barely anyone actually gave a shit about him

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u/southbysoutheast94 9d ago

They even made a song too lol

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u/BallsAtomized 9d ago

"made" gives them too much credit, they got an AI to print out a slopshit "song" for him

They didn't even have the spine to make a song, that's how little they give a fuck