'You can’t have guns': Trump stuns with anti-2nd Amendment demand for protestors

President Donald Trump on Tuesday agreed with the criticism that no one should carry a gun to a protest.

The president spoke to the press before heading to Des Moines, Iowa to discuss his economic agenda after his first year in office.

A key topic was the recent shooting of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Many members of the administration have implied that Pretti caused his own death by having a gun on him.

Trump's team initially alleged that Pretti approached federal agents while "brandishing a weapon." Videos quickly showed a different story.

White House correspondent Elizabeth Landers from PBS's "News Hour" asked whether he agreed with the claim that Pretti was acting as "an assassin." Trump disagreed with that assessment.

"Well, that being said," Trump returned to the reporter, "you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. Listen, you can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. It's just a very unfortunate incident."

Second Amendment advocates have been furious with the administration for claims that protesters can't have guns. It earned a rare rebuke from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

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