Think Progress – by Josh Israel
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R), who is currently seeking her party’s nomination for an open U.S. House seat, said last week that she believes the right to self defense includes the right to aim your gun anyone who aims a gun at you, even if they are a law enforcement officer.
In an interview with a local TV station last Sunday, Fiore attacked the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as “a bureaucrat agency of terrorism.” Pressed by KLAS-8 host Steve Sebelius about whether she believes the Second Amendment grants citizens the right to point a weapon at a “duly authorized law enforcement officer who is just out there doing his job,” she said that self-defense includes the right to aim back at anyone who points a gun at you first — and to put your own life ahead of theirs.
“I would never ever point my firearm at anyone, including an officer of the law, unless they pointed their firearm at me,” Fiore explained. But, the assemblywoman continued, “once you point your firearm at me, I’m sorry, then it becomes self-defense. Whether you’re a stranger, a bad guy, or an officer, and you point your gun at me and you’re gonna shoot me and I have to decide whether it’s my life or your life, I choose my life.”
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Fiore helped negotiate the end of a standoff earlier this year between armed militia and ranchers and law enforcement officials. The armed group had occupied a federal facility near Burns, Oregon, in protest of the prosecution of two ranchers, who set a fire to their property that spread to land owned by BLM. She has previously pushed the debunked claim that one of those militants was killed by police with his hands up.
Fiore’s record on guns has long been one of the most extreme in the nation. She released a “2016 Walk the Talk Second Amendment Calendar” featuring pictures of herself with large guns. One photo showed her clad in a white dress, wearing diamonds, and holding a semi-automatic AR pistol, with the caption “Diamonds aren’t a girl’s only best friend.” Last year, she suggested that “hot little girls” on college campuses should carry concealed guns to prevent rape. She also proposed the arming of school teachers and administrators to prevent mass shootings.
She has taken an array of other controversial positions that have made national news as well. Though she once operated a home health business, she claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be cured by “flushing” it would with salt water. Additionally, after claiming that “racism is over” at a committee hearing on a voter ID proposal, she identified a colleague as the “colored man to graduate from his high school.”
Fiore’s Republican assembly colleagues elected her majority leader in 2014, but she was stripped of the position when it was revealed that she faced more than $1 million in tax liens.
“… the right to self defense includes the right to aim your gun anyone who aims a gun at you, even if they are a law enforcement officer.”
That goes without saying.
Waiting UNTIL they have their gun pointed at you would likely be fatal, however.
I am not waiting for them to TAKE AIM first, it is already over at that point, if they start something… FINISH IT!
“The trick is to take your time a hurry.”
-Gun fighting tip from Wyatt Earp-
*** Pressed by KLAS-8 host Steve Sebelius about whether she believes the Second Amendment grants citizens the right to point a weapon at a “duly authorized law enforcement officer who is just out there doing his job”… ***
The Second Amendment doesn’t “grant” that right, but merely recognizes it. Citizens have such a right regardless of any document or human law.
And what’s with this “just doing his job” crap? The thugs of every tyrannical dictator who ever lived were “just doing their jobs.” A mob hitman who murders an honest businessman is “just doing his job.” “Just doing his job” justifies nothing. And if a pig is “just doing his job” when he points a gun at me and makes me fear for my life, then it becomes MY job to put a bullet through that pig’s skull.
To hell with this bitch. I don’t care what she has to say.
She’s another politician, which means she stands for absolutely nothing, but will say whatever she thinks her present audience wants to hear.
I hope she gets hit by a truck too.
once someone has already drawn on you , its almost impossible for anyone to stage that up.. in other words .. they have the draw on you .. the time it would take you to draw on them, if they are any good. They could put two into you before you ever fire a shot .. so is what she PROVOKING a murder? I think so
she needs to go to prison
now dont get me wrong , I would do my best to side step that cops first round in order to get mine off, the odds are just against anyone in this act
I dont care how fast you think you are
Shes advocating some bad shit man