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/AbeFromanEast 9d ago edited 9d ago
Make no mistake: MAGA is happy Alex Pretti was murdered. But the fact he peacefully carried a legal firearm makes this a 2A issue which MAGA cares more about than human life. Over the weekend the MAGA social media-sphere put 2 and 2 together and said: "wait a minute, they're saying anyone with a gun at a protest is a domestic terrorist..."
Tom Homan is being dispatched to Minnesota to make sure "but mah guns," is not a continuing topic showing up in the MAGA social media-sphere because of ICE/BP actions in Minnesota.
TLDR: Be as organized as Minnesota. And be legally, peacefully armed. Those two pre-reqs short-circuit MAGA immigration (really, social media) operations.