'You can't have guns.' What is Trump's stance on the 2nd Amendment?

President Donald Trump has crticized Alex Pretti, killed at a Minneapolis protest, for bringing a gun. He has campaigned on 2nd Amendment rights.

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Nailed It! #duet #maga #protest #gun #2A #2ndamendment #ice #iceagents #terrorism #hypocrites #dumb

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As a brown person who has had firearms in the #US, this lands.

I remember musing why when I purchased a gun that there was 'race' on the form. As if there was a room in DC where they had a running count of Samoans who owned legal weapons (Samoan was a race option).

You want some real fun? Read about the history of the US Census. It ain't pretty.

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https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/alex-pretti-shooting-minneapolis-second-ammendment/

The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone

The killing of Alex Pretti, a licensed gun owner, in Minneapolis is waking white Americans up to the reality that rights are conditional.

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Gun Rights Activists Briefly Pause MAGA Cheerleading To Half-Assedly Defend Rights Of Murdered Minnesotan

This nation is filled with loudmouths who claim the Second Amendment ensures the rest of the amendments are protected. There are a lot of gun owners who bristle at any hint of gun control, even as …

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Could not be clearer.

#Minnesota #DHS #2ndAmendment

Hello stupidity my old friend. They’re just so aggressively stupid, part 1 #duet #2A #2ndamendment #fre...
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They’re just so aggressively stupid, part 1 #duet #2A #2ndamendment #freedom #gunrights #NRA #carry

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"It’s clear Trump is setting us up for more violence. Pitting warrantless ICE home entries against Stand Your Ground laws presents another unwanted, unsettled question of law that will only be settled after someone else needlessly dies."

~ Sabrina Haake

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https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/ice-warrantless-entries-meet-stand

ICE warrantless entries, meet Stand Your Ground laws

It's only a matter of time.

The Haake Take

"The right’s pushback on government authority has always been selective and identity-based: white ranchers asserting their property claims, good; diverse groups demanding a correction to racist policing, bad."

Catherine Thompson

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/alex-prettis-killing-has-upended-the-rights-narratives-about-government-overreach

Alex Pretti’s Killing Has Upended the Right’s Narratives About Government Overreach

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"The secret sauce of American gun-nuttery is that its largely white, rural, conservative exponents are wholly backed up by the very state that their Second Amendment ideology is supposed to oppose. They triumph, not because of their innate political acumen or even their marksmanship, but because the cops either look the other way or actively aid them whenever they go marauding with all their haphazard, half-drunk revenge fantasies."

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