White House rejects retired Supreme Court justice's call for Second Amendment repeal

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders rebuffed a suggestion from retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens that the Second Amendment should be repealed and said the administration doesn’t believe the focus surrounding efforts to combat gun violence should be on “blocking Americans from their constitutional rights.”

“The president and the administration still fully support the Second Amendment,” Sanders told reporters during Tuesday’s White House press briefing. “We think that the focus has to remain on removing weapons from dangerous individuals, not on blocking all Americans from their constitutional rights.”