Michele Fiore found herself taking heat after she told KLAS-8 TV reporter Steve Sebelius last week that she felt it was her right to point a gun at law enforcement if they drew their weapon on her:
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.
Michele Fiore, who is running for U.S. Congress, must’ve been feeling the heat after that interview because she sat down with Dave Schuman of KTNV to try and clarify her comments. In the end, she doubled-down on her idiotic stance that she has the right to shoot at a duly authorized law enforcement agent, but not before making several jaw-dropping comments laced with sexual innuendo, including that Las Vegas police may point something at her, but it isn’t their gun!
As she tried to explain her previous outrageous comments, she explained that she was not talking about metro Las Vegas police, only Bureau of Land Management officers, which she apparently does not recognize as duly authorized federal agents (which they absolutely, positively are).
A portion of her comments (beginning at the 2:56 mark) pertaining to the standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, where armed militants were seen pointing rifles at BLM agents and contractors:
FIORE: First of all, let’s not forget the narrative that we are talking about here in Bunkerville. We are talking about cows eating brush. So then, all of the sudden, to have a BLM rogue, moronic individual come into our state and try to govern Nevadans and Americans across America by gunpoint. I’m sorry. That is not gonna work.
SCHUMAN: And that’s when it’s justified to point back. If you were to have a gun.
FIORE: I always have a gun.
SCHUMAN: And they’re pointing at you, then you can….
FIORE: So, if I have a rogue agent that literally has a history of death in his past. And if that man ever pointed a gun at me, I’d point right back. His intentions are evil.
SCHUMAN: Just to get this out of the way. With metro officers, real law enforcement
FIORE: (nods and smiles) Real law enforcement….
SCHUMAN: Real officers, if they are pointing a gun at you, then what?
FIORE: First of all, I just have to tell you, metro’s not going to be pointing a gun at me (laughs), period. Um, you know if any of our, um, metro police officers are pointing anything at me, it definitely isn’t their gun, so (laughs) I’m going to just say that.
She then went on to outline how to handle yourself at a traffic stop and what to do if a “real” officer points a gun at you mistakenly. She finished the interview by answering a question about her romantic involvement with a Las Vegas police officer:
SCHUMAN: Is there anything you want to elaborate on with unofficial relationship with a metro officer? What’s going on there?
FIORE: (looking bemused) What? (laughs)
SCHUMAN: Romantic relationship?
FIORE: Oh, ok. This is what you are talking about. My quote was I have an unofficial romantic friend in the police agency. So, that’s where we’ll end that. I’m a public figure and uh, I don’t think exposing a lover is, uh, the right thing to do.