Prof. Megan Walsh Interviewed by CNN About the Administration’s Contradictory Statements Regarding Second Amendment Rights

Professor Megan Walsh, director of the Gun Violence Prevention Clinic, was interviewed by CNN about claims by Trump administration officials that the man fatally shot by a federal agent lacked a right to possess a firearm and that his killing was justified are being dismissed by legal experts and assailed by gun rights groups ordinarily aligned with the president. Prof. Walsh said, “They’ve stood up in court and tried to push back against state laws that regulate firearms — access, use, carry — so it’s pretty shocking to me to see them now use an example of a lawful gun owner as justification for force. He [Alex Pretti] was lawfully carrying a firearm, and that is not any license to kill someone. We have a Constitution that provides a Second Amendment individual right, and it is unlawful to kill a man for exercising his constitutional rights.”