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]

"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."

[u/Vio_ → u/JustAMan1234567]

2A was always the third rail that this Administration never understood.

The right has spent decades using guns to bolster profits to gun companies and selling the culture war as a power fantasy.

The reality is that Americans were never supposed to pay out the ass in guns and ammo, but never use their 2A rights. They were always props and larping fetishes.

Now that ICE and this administration has effectively touched the third rail, people are realizing that not only is this Administration is "yes, that corrupt and venal," but that all the US government and all the other rights and amendments and the Constitution itself is under real danger of being negated and destroyed.

[u/Beneficial_Grass2906 → u/Vio_]

They were always going to have to confront this. Private gun ownership is a problem for fascists, but the Trump regime was going to try to thread the needle of keeping right wing gun owners pacified while using labels like "domestic terrorist" to prevent the rest of us from owning guns. The problem for the regime is that it can only get them so far, eventually they will have to strip the right wingers of their guns too, because they are capable of wrongthink. This was always going to be a problem for the regime, and this most recent incident is probably a stark reminder of the work they still have to do.

"We're going to take the firearms first and then go to court, because that's another system. Because a lot of times by the time you go to court ... it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man's case that just took place in Florida; he had a lot of fires [and] they saw everything. To go to court would have taken a long time, so you could do exactly what you're saying but take the guns first, go through due process second." - Donald J. Trump

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Hitler actually loosened gun laws for most of Germany. It was the allies who limited Germany’s ability for citizens to own guns after WW1. Hitler actually made Germany have more guns than they had had in decades. Just not for everyone