This is getting very old very quickly.
National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre argued on NBC’s Meet the Press that “there weren’t enough good guys with guns" to confront the shooter responsible for last week's Washington Navy Yard rampage and he insisted that "when the good guys with guns got there, it stopped.”
In his first television interview since the mass shooting last Monday in which gunman Aaron Alexis killed 12 people, LaPierre, the executive vice president of the NRA, described the Navy Yard as a military facility that was “largely left unprotected.”
LaPierre said more personnel who work at military facilities, including retired military personnel, should be armed so they are able to stop attacks such as the one at the Navy Yard.
Watch the full appearance
here.
To his credit, David Gregory called BS on LaPierre, pointing out that there WERE armed guards at the Navy Yard. However, there's something else that LaPierre conveniently overlooked. Aaron Alexis wouldn't have even gotten the security clearance that allowed him into the facility if the vetting process had worked the way it should have. And yet, LaPierre continues to insist that if there'd just been more people with guns, this tragedy wouldn't have happened.
Um, Wayne? Until you have more to contribute to this discussion other than (noun) (verb) "more guns," stay the hell out of the debate.