Darrell A.H. Miller on the Second Amendment and ICE
What to know about Illinois gun rights around federal immigration agents
Darrell Miller, a University of Chicago law professor and Second Amendment expert who has written extensively about guns in American society, said he thinks the answer is clear.
“Without question, the presence of firearms in these situations escalates the chance of injury or death, whether it’s a protest or not, as we saw with the Pretti situation,” he said.
In part, he says that’s because the Trump administration has taken the reins off federal agents, who Miller argued should be “trained to understand that the mere possession of a firearm where it’s legal to have one is not in itself cause to use deadly force against somebody.
“But apparently these agents are not being trained in that way,” he claimed.
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