Unlike a lot of people on social media, I’ve yet to complete a forensic investigation into the videos of the tragic shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Even if I did, I wouldn’t possess enough information to make definitive statements about the legal justification for the shooting. You probably don’t, either.

But if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers felt their lives were threatened by Pretti, who had a Minnesota concealed carry permit for weapon, the administration has a responsibility to make that case without spreading misinformation about the Second Amendment and scaremongering about “loaded” “semiautomatics” and “extra magazines,” which virtually every Trump official who’s commented on the shooting has done.