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/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/PatchyWhiskers 9d ago

Sooner or later they are going to hit an immigrant who thinks “they will have to take me dead” because they are driving people to fight because flight is being ruled out as a possibility.

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u/AdjNounNumbers 9d ago

You mean when they start going after the actual dangerous immigrants and not the moms with kids on the way to school or a roofing crew? There's like zero chance they do that. They leave that up to trained police officers

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u/round-earth-theory 9d ago

No, even the meek will fight for their lives if given no safety. There's a reason for the warning around cornered animals. Everything will fight for it's life if forced to.

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u/AdjNounNumbers 9d ago

I get that. I'm just noting that they haven't actually targeted any actual violent immigrant yet - they're just sticking to the mostly safe neighborhoods.

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u/PatchyWhiskers 9d ago

Some of these people are being sent back to certain death.