Chris Wallace Skewers NRA’s Wayne LaPierre On Gun Violence: ‘That’s Ridiculous And You Know It, Sir’

mediaite.com ^ | 3 February, 2013 | Meenal Vamburkar

[marktwain]

On Fox News Sunday, following the segment featuring Mark Kelly, Chris Wallace interviewed National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre about various issues surrounding gun control — ranging from background checks to mental health concerns to armed security at schools. Pressing LaPierre on his arguments, Wallace challenged him on some of his opposition to gun control.

Wallace began with background checks, citing the 1.7 million people who’ve been denied because of the checks — but LaPierre argued that most of those people weren’t prosecuted, and we can’t say they “were stopped from getting a gun at all.”

He further argued against calling them universal. “It’s a fraud to call it universal,” LaPierre said, because criminals won’t comply. Thus it’s more apt to call it a “universal check into a universal registry of law-abiding people.” And it will only create a “bureaucratic nightmare.”

[Hardastarboard]

Wallace was also repugnant when he attacked LaPierre for saying there is an American elite.

WHAT?!?! Wallace is ONE OF THEM. OMG I hate these people (see my tag line).

[Candor7]

I Thought La Pierre rocked, and kicked a$$.

The lliberal weenies had to rely on Wallace to argue, and Wallace could not.

[jim999]

It was painfully apparent that Wallace was an advocate and not a journalist.
LaPierre made a mistake in not bringing up what percentage the 1.7 million who were denied in a background check was.
1. First off I don’t trust LaPierre. I’m afraid his support of various parts of gun laws may lead to exactly what gun rights people fear.
2. In the segment before LaPierre, I thought Wallace was going to embarrass everybody with an on-camera ‘tingle up his leg’. Bernard Goldberg’s “Slobbering Love Affair” seems to have been written with ‘Chrissy Wallace’ in mind.
Is there something going on here? Chrissy Mathews = Chrissy Wallace?????
It was interesting that Wallace, on the morning after, brought up the murder, which I am beginning to believe was an assassination, of Chris Kyle. A not so subtle message?
It’s time somebody brings up the need of the people for military grade weapons to defend ourselves from all of the 5th columnists and terrorists that the Feds have let into the country. Not to mention groups like the Zetas, Ms13, Chicago’s finest, and other criminal enterprises.
I don’t believe even many of you hard core preppers out there really have come to grips with how fast things are spiraling down the drain.

[LeoWindhorse]

he is such a dweeb.... why does Fox News give him so many creds? Just because he is Mike Wallace’s kid? Old Mike was another totally in-the-tank Lib schnozzler . Offensive , self-righteous , cynical , and often sardonically rude .
The fruit falls not far from the tree

[Red in Blue PA]

The idea of an elite class, Wallace said, is “just nonsense.”

When you live in the bubble, you can't see it.

[Vendome]

There is an armed guard at each of our banks here in little ol’ Gilroy,CA, population 50,000....

[Jeff Winston]

Doesn’t sound to me like Wallace skewered LaPierre at all.

[onyx]

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[jonrick46]

How is universal checks going to stop a gang banger simply getting one of their drug buyers to go in to a gun outlet and buy a gun for them?

[1raider1]

Chris Wallace’s show, “Fox News Sunday” airs on the Fox broadcast network, not FNC. You can watch it even if you don’t have cable.

[bereanway]

Mediaite is full-on, howling, moonbat craziness squared.

Doesn’t surprise me at all the way they presented the interview, to make LaPierre seem even crazier than the crazies at Fox.

Mediaite is a reminder of just how unstable a sizeable swath of the populace really is.

[Viennacon]

Wallace is a gasbag hack. Who cares?

[smoothsailing]

Wallace is just another red diaper doper baby. Commie scum.

[Kirkwood]

“Wallace noted that all schoolchildren don’t face the same threats as the president’s children.”

Am I the only one who thinks there are a substantial number of schoolchildren who face more threats than the president’s children? Wallace must be totally out of touch if he thinks children today are safe from violence.

[norwaypinesavage]

"The idea of an elite class, Wallace said, is “just nonsense.”"

Was that before, or after, he said that he sent his kids to the same school that Obama's kids go to?

[GOPJ]

... “universal check into a universal registry of law-abiding people.”

LaPierre's right on this... these so-called gun control laws do little other than identify law abiding citizens... and intimidate them.

[real saxophonist]

Thank you. I was in the hospital for almost two months. Watched a lot of 'American Chopper'.
It was kinda funny, I always had some kind of news on the TV, and every time a nurse came into the room, they would stop and stare at the TV for a minute.
I finally asked one why they did that, and she said my room was the only time they got any news.
Everybody else had Judge This or Judge That on...

[SoFloFreeper]

The entire "ridiculous" comment came ONLY from the discussion about the Assclown's kids having armed protection--NOT ABOUT the NRA's positions regarding background checks or gun registration!

Here is the relevant part from the mediaite article:

“You really think that the president’s children are the same kind of target as every school child in America?” Wallace said. “That’s ridiculous and you know it, sir.”

[WCH]

When reporters start defending the actions of the elite, you know they could care less about us pions.

[Cheerio]

I took the poll on the mediate site to the right - here is who reads this sort of "News"

Would you support or oppose a law in your state that would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana like alcohol?
52%Strongly support
16%Somewhat support
4%Somewhat oppose
22% Strongly oppose
6% No strong opinion