President Donald Trump twice on Jan. 27 questioned why 37-year-old Alex Pretti was carrying a gun at the time he was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.
His administration has long advocated for a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment. But then came the Jan. 24 shooting that killed Pretti, which happened weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in the same city.
Trump told reporters on Jan. 27 he didn’t believe Pretti was an “assassin” but questioned why he was armed.
“You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that. It’s just a very unfortunate thing,” he said.
At an event in Iowa on the same day, Trump reiterated that the shooting was "very unfortunate" but that, "I don't like that he had a gun."
