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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

Posted on 02/03/2013 11:22:18 AM PST by 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.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; bsheadline; foxnews; guncontrol; lapierre; nra; secondamendment; wallace
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I do not know who wrote the headline, but it does not fit the transcript. Perhaps it fits the video....
1 posted on 02/03/2013 11:22:26 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

bidden says we can’t background check everyone now, much less prosecute the ones they find trying to lie on the background check forms.


2 posted on 02/03/2013 11:31:23 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: marktwain

We now have an armed guard at the entrance to our local Home Depot. In CA where CC is almost non-existent. I guess he is there to keep out the illegals who pester the customers for jobs.


3 posted on 02/03/2013 11:31:59 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: marktwain

Another repugnant attack by the leftist media (meaining Mediaite). Wallace was also repugnant when he attacked LaPierre for saying there is an American elite. Every one of LaPierre’s points were correct, but Wallace had to find sone way to attack him. Miserable fail by Wallace.


4 posted on 02/03/2013 11:33:17 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: marktwain

Urban Poverty Law Center’s Paperwork Reduction Act for BATF form for background checks to buy a gun.

Do you already have a gun? Yes NO

If yes, skip the following form you can have another gun.

Because? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE!


6 posted on 02/03/2013 11:37:38 AM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (where the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: marktwain

If anyone wants to get the flavor of the anti-gun side of the argument, just read the comments. Makes me want to go pound my head with a cement block.


7 posted on 02/03/2013 11:37:57 AM PST by zagger
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To: marktwain

The headline has it backwards. It was LaPierre who smacked Wallace down. Wallace came across as petty and petulent. Just another Obamabot.


8 posted on 02/03/2013 11:39:53 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: marktwain

Fox News no longer provides for easy communications with their individual shows or commentators , like Chris Wallace .
I wanted to tell him today “ I will never be watching your miserable ,prickly , program again. “
He tried his best to demean LaPierre , he was rude and insulting ,while at the same time fawning towards Gifford’s husband , Kelly . LaPierre should have just told the little twerp off .


9 posted on 02/03/2013 11:41:21 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: marktwain

You should read the comments at mediaite - libtards in full-on attack mode.


10 posted on 02/03/2013 11:42:12 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Oldexpat

“I guess he is there to keep out the illegals who pester the customers for jobs.”

I go to the HD on Sunset Blvd. What pisses me off is that OSH right across it never had one mexillegal haunting the entrance for the past 5 years. And they are the ones closing after 20 years.


11 posted on 02/03/2013 11:42:40 AM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: marktwain

The only “skewering” that takes place is Chris Wallace proving he’s an ass.


12 posted on 02/03/2013 11:43:43 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: smoothsailing

Well, this Meenal author sounds like a retarded liberal who somehow got hired by Fox News out of affirmative action.


13 posted on 02/03/2013 11:44:29 AM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: real saxophonist

I don’t agree with Wallace that there’s no elite class. There is one and he’s a member.


14 posted on 02/03/2013 11:44:40 AM PST by virgil
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To: zagger

The comments are so typical, they can’t come up with a logical argument to support their beliefs so they resort to the usual vilification rather than face reality.


15 posted on 02/03/2013 11:45:43 AM PST by Two Alpha
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To: marktwain
I don't recall a single person being hauled in by the police for threatening Obama's daughters. But many are being arrested for threats against children at schools.

Wallace is a dipshit pipsqueak.

16 posted on 02/03/2013 11:48:55 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: smoothsailing
The idea of an elite class, Wallace said, is “just nonsense.”

Nonsense only an elitist believes.

17 posted on 02/03/2013 11:50:31 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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To: marktwain
Christine is merely implementing Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."

Doesn't matter if you allegation is true or false.

To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, "The ridicule is the message."

18 posted on 02/03/2013 11:51:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Time for somebody to list his address. Past time.


19 posted on 02/03/2013 11:52:29 AM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: marktwain

Wallace is just another corrupt pundiot using the FOX soapbox to spew his agenda.

Pray for America


20 posted on 02/03/2013 11:52:58 AM PST by bray (Welcome to Obamaville)
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