Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore has a knack for making the news. Whether it is standing with armed men and women at Cliven Bundy's Nevada ranch as they turned their guns on federal agents, encouraging Ammon Bundy in his armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, sending out a family Christmas card featuring everyone, children included, fully armed with guns, or claiming cancer is merely a fungus that can be flushed out, it’s hard to imagine Michele Fiore could top those headline-making items. But, she has in fact done it.
In an interview with KLAS-8 host Steve Sebelius, the gun-obsessed congressional candidate (!) had an alarming view on whether it was alright to point a gun at a law enforcement officer:
STEVE SEBELIUS: We don’t have a First or Second Amendment right, do we? To point a weapon at a duly authorized law enforcement officer who’s just out there doing his job...
MICHELE FIORE: OK, so understand. No, no, understand, we would never, ever...I would never, ever point my firearm at anyone, including an officer of the law….unless, they pointed their firearm at me. Once you point your firearm at me, I’m sorry, then it becomes self-defense. So, whether you are a stranger, a bad guy or an officer and you point your gun at me and you’re going to shoot me and I have to decide whether my life or your life? Well, I choose my life.
You can watch the relevant clip below (thanks to Think Progress for clipping the aforementioned part of the interview). The full interview can be viewed in a Web Extra from KLAS-TV.