Please ask Mr LaPierre about the Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act, introduced by a Republican congressman, which disallows the Veterans Administration from providing the FBI with names of veterans, who have their disability checks due to mental illlness forwarded to trustees, so they can be enetered into the database to prevent gun ownership. Who do you think wrote that bill? What duplicity, when he mentioned the importance of a data base of those with mental illnesses. Besides, a vast majority of guns are sold without background checks against the FBI database.

This is in reference to Knowledge of Today's photo... That states IF A MAN HAS A HOUSE STACKED TO THE CEILING WITH NEWSPAPERS.....WE CALL HIM CRAZY----IF A WOMAN IS IN A TRAILER HOUSE FULL OF CATS..WE CALL HER NUTS......WHEN PEOPLE PATHOLOGICALLY HOARD SO MUCH CASH THAT THEY IMPOVERISH OTHERS---WE PUT THEM ON THE COVER OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE AND PRETEND THEY ARE ROLE MODELS.....Thanks Bruce Grant.
*Like the Koch brothers or of course Karl Rove or Wayne La Pierre* Me personally I think that when people just agree with other people because of the size of their wallets... Is one thing that cripples America, We can think for ourselves rather we have 2 penny's to rub together or not.. That should be the American way. Think for ones self not for what someone else wants us to vote this way or that or think this or that because the dudes with the wide wallets say we should,,,, BE INDEPENDENT Think for yourself and you might be surprised what growth spurt y...ou gain from it in your own self worth and opening your eyes and really see ,,, Lets grow America ,,Not be stuck with what has not worked in the past, The fat billfolds wants and demands,,,We are free and independent ! Lets act like it,,!, Let them be one of my kind or your kind not us being their subservient bidders for what they say is good for us because they have more money than we have cheerios or hair or tasks or anything, They say we can get clothes and toys almost all things made in china or Bangladesh or India or any other 3rd world country who do not have workers rights or unions,, Lets do it and get it done in America our way not their way,, Lets be PROUD STRONG AMERICAN"S and take this nation where it belongs ,,OUR NATION ,,The American way,, Made in America ,, Not go way off base with the notion some have, Put a cop in every school or a rent a cop or teachers having to carry a pistol,,come on,,,, If we would have opened our eyes. we could maybe have seen how much of an issue the sick guy who did the horror of the first grade massacre that we just had to wittiness had,. Is it because we where not paying attention and too wrapped up in the dudes with overflowing wealth so unhappy because with all that cash ,,President Obama still won. Putting guns in schools will do nothing but cause more deaths,, Lets learn to open our eyes and see what is going on around us and not be afraid to take care of it ,, Come America lets take our country back and treat her with Honor and pride Make MADE IN AMERICA the norm not exception. !!!! PROUD American_Pro UNION!.....Lisa Jordan Wirt

I support the NRA. Wayne made a lot of sense. He's right more anti-gun laws will not work.Liberals just want to take away our guns. Let's put armed people in schools, we can do that immediately.Chuck Schumer never saw a gun ban he did't like. Let him give up his armed guards. Instead of blaming the guns lets blame the criminals.There is something called personal responsibility let's bring it back.Let's quit blaming decent people for what the crazy people do.

I agree with wayne lapierre . He makes a lot of sense. chucky shumer never saw an anti-gun law he didn't like. Let him give up his armed guards if he doesn't want to protect our children. Quit restricting good people instead of crimlnals. Let's blame the criminal not the decent gun owner. The government has restricted our 2nd amendment right enough.If the liberals care so much about chikdren why do the kill millions every year thru abortion? Let's ban abortion, it has cheapened life to the point of insanity.

I watched Meet the press this AM was disappointed by Mr Gregory's performance in interviewing Mr LaPierre. This was not an interview but an attempt to force Mr LaPierre to agree with his position against increased rules to regulate guns.

Criminologists do document that the number of mass killings is no higher and perhaps actually less in the 2000s compared to 1960s thru 1990s including 1990s-2004 when assault rifle ban was in place-- Columbine occurred during assault rifle ban, as Mr La Pierre pointed out. See facts rather than Mr Gregory's opinions at and

The simple issue is that our politicians and judicial system have turned out mentally ill persons out onto street as they have cut funding for mental health care/facilities and the judicial system protects "rights" of mentally ill persons with schizophrenia, for instance, to not be "forced" to take medications to control their hallucinations which may include paranoid and/or violent thoughts. Guns including assault weapons whether we like it or not are available legally and illegally, and putting a law banning sale of large ammunition clips does not address either of these underlying problems. It did not stop Columbine and cannot be expected to-- again the FACTS show these horrific mass shootings are not any more common than they were in decades past and that the major issue is mentally unstable persons among us (who despite knowledge of their issues as in the Aurora shooter and Newton shooter) that the legal system does not allow societal intervention to protect the general population until those mentally unstable persons committ a crime. Banning large capacity clips just will cause a black market to form for those weapons but will not prevent mass shootings-- mass shootings can occur with handguns with 10-15 bullet clips just as easily.

I am not a gun owner and never had seriously thought about owning one till now when the media pushes its view to restrict weapons sales to its satisfaction without apparently wanting to allow a fair, balanced discussion occur on these issues that MUST include the fundamental issue- mentally unstable persons getting any guns

I had thought Mr LaPierre was a lunatic after his pronouncement earlier this week about putting armed guards in schools, but during Mr Gregory's show after discussing the issues with school attacks being prevented in Israel by doing so, and how Columbine was as bad as it was because the school security was not allowed to engage the gunmen but had to not intervene and wait for police to arrive and assess the situation, Mr LaPierre's short term recommendation makes sense. NRA has favored background checks on all purchasers, which makes sense, and the government's policy failures in addressing mental illnessmentally and legally is coming back to bite its people

I have to agree with Mr LaPierre after watching the interview and shame on Mr Gregory for his "interview"-- frankly I think Mr LaPierre schooled you with facts and reason rather than attempting to force opinion like you did

I watched Meet the press this AM was disappointed by Mr Gregory's performance in interviewing Mr LaPierre. This was not an interview but an attempt to force Mr LaPierre to agree with his position against increased rules to regulate guns.

Criminologists do document that the number of mass killings is no higher and perhaps actually less in the 2000s compared to 1960s thru 1990s including 1990s-2004 when assault rifle ban was in place-- Columbine occurred during assault rifle ban, as Mr La Pierre pointed out. See facts rather than Mr Gregory's opinions at and

The simple issue is that our politicians and judicial system have turned out mentally ill persons out onto street as they have cut funding for mental health care/facilities and the judicial system protects "rights" of mentally ill persons with schizophrenia, for instance, to not be "forced" to take medications to control their hallucinations which may include paranoid and/or violent thoughts. Guns including assault weapons whether we like it or not are available legally and illegally, and putting a law banning sale of large ammunition clips does not address either of these underlying problems. It did not stop Columbine and cannot be expected to-- again the FACTS show these horrific mass shootings are not any more common than they were in decades past and that the major issue is mentally unstable persons among us (who despite knowledge of their issues as in the Aurora shooter and Newton shooter) that the legal system does not allow societal intervention to protect the general population until those mentally unstable persons committ a crime. Banning large capacity clips just will cause a black market to form for those weapons but will not prevent mass shootings-- mass shootings can occur with handguns with 10-15 bullet clips just as easily.

I am not a gun owner and never had seriously thought about owning one till now when the media pushes its view to restrict weapons sales to its satisfaction without apparently wanting to allow a fair, balanced discussion occur on these issues that MUST include the fundamental issue- mentally unstable persons getting any guns

I had thought Mr LaPierre was a lunatic after his pronouncement earlier this week about putting armed guards in schools, but during Mr Gregory's show after discussing the issues with school attacks being prevented in Israel by doing so, and how Columbine was as bad as it was because the school security was not allowed to engage the gunmen but had to not intervene and wait for police to arrive and assess the situation, Mr LaPierre's short term recommendation makes sense. NRA has favored background checks on all purchasers, which makes sense, and the government's policy failures in addressing mental illnessmentally and legally is coming back to bite its people

I have to agree with Mr LaPierre after watching the interview and shame on Mr Gregory for his "interview"-- frankly I think Mr LaPierre schooled you with facts and reason rather than attempting to force opinion like you did

#5 - Sun Dec 23, 2012 10:14 AM EST

Smaller gun clips would still allow gunmen in schools to shoot children,fewer children shot is still not good enough! How is David missing this point! Anyone that plans out an attack would bring more clips and and can reload these smaller clips and keep shooting. It is the act of shooting we must work at stopping and concentrate on creating a safe environment for our children. Crime and gang shootings are different matter which require another approach, an aggressive anti-crime campaign to take back our streets and.

As a former police officer, I believe, like millions of americans, that the NRA is absolutely wrong. The more guns the more innocent deaths. Sure there are many who are responsible gun owners but there are many NRA members, and more who are not, who are gun hoarders (collectors) and would-be militia (hate groupsj), as well as many, many who are unstable (also within those groups). Anyone with a gun can become irate and/or mentally ill at some time in their lives and will use a gun. More Guns More Innocent Deaths. NRA is an ostrich with their head in the sand.

Good to hear Mr. Gregory push Mr. La Pierre for answers, the NRA is an organization I belonged to in the past, I will never never belong to it again, I believe they are wrong, in their stance, some changes must be made in Americas gun laws.

There is an assault weapon ban in Connecticut. It was obeyed. It did not save lives. There is a handgun licensing law in Connecticut. It was obeyed. It did not save lives.

I see no point in a national assault weapon ban or any kind of national handgun licensing when those laws, even though they were obeyed, did not save lives in Connecticut.

If the gun control lobby can come up with something that hasn't already failed, I'm interested in hearing about it. But all I'm hearing is the same old same old.

Why is it when there is a car accident people don't sue the car maker or the cars be banned, when there is a train accident why isn't the train manufacturer gone after or all trains taken off the rails? After 9/11 why wasn't all air travel banned because all these items are just tools that unfortunately mentally troubled people have access to, after last Friday's shooting of those poor children, teachers and the boy's mother it is not only a gun that could have cause such carnage. They could get into a school with a machete and knives and kill people with less noise and maybe more terror could have been carried out. The person in the movie theater that killed all those people used high capacity magazines, it would not have mattered if he used 10 round magazines, he would just have kept extra magazines loaded and ready to replace the one that is empty. Why can't the mainstream see that it is the PEOPLE that are doing the killing, not the gun, magazine or machete. If those items are stored in a safe, hang on a wall or even lay on the table, they are just a gun/ an item, a machete or a magazine. It is how a person or persons chose to use the item, It is the person(s) who kill, not the item. These people all had a plan prior to carrying it out, once they kill as many as they had planned they kill themselves. Then the news media constantly offers the person's name, which I believe the persons may have known would happen prior to them taking their own lives making them think they are made some sort of icon (if only in their minds).

A gunman in our schools,court houses, etc, with a smaller clip still kills children and people how does David miss this point! His behavior was rude. We need to create a safe environment for our children and someone with bad intent would be prepared and able to change out a small clip (or large clip) until stopped. As a country we do need to work together in taking back our communities and protecting our most important resources, our children. Our government has shown us they can not work together to resolve issues but we can, I believe this. Failures in our health care system leaves those in need of mental health reaching out in frustration to a point of breaking and who is to blame! It is not their fault they became ill no more than those in the cancer centers are to blame.(possible smoker exception). We need to take a look at the new America, role models today are provided via the media source, just turn on the TV!!! our lives have gotten to busy to be a family unit!!! If mental health in this country was not a problem,we would not be having this discussion, regardless of what size clips could be put in a gun. The economy has a big impact on crime, that needs to be another area of importance. So many points David simply decided to over look, I normally enjoy watching him but was very disappointed in his professionalism today.

Why wasn't all air travel banned after 9/11 or at least limited to a piper plane so that amount of damage could not happen again? Why after an automobile accident aren't all automobiles banned, same for trains? These are all items nothing more, it is the mentally ill person or persons that are using them as weapons of mass killing/destruction. The boy in Connecticut could have used a machete that could have killed a lot of people, making less noise therefore the message that a killer was in the school may have never occurred and who knows how many more unfortunate souls would have been lost. They are saying that the person in the movie theater would not have killed as many people if he didn't have a 30 round magazine. I disagree, he could have had multiple 10 round magazines already loaded and it only takes a very short time to change a magazine. When are we going to start looking at the mentally ill people as the cause for these ungodly acts? There are many people that have and respect their guns and weapons and people that probably have never had the enjoyment of hunting or target shooting all while showing respect to their weapons want to change laws against these law abiding citizens. I target practice and I do have a 30 round magazine, why? Because I have to reload less and can enjoy my sport. It is not the law abiding gun owner that should be targeted, it is those persons that may have a mental illness. Then comes the time to define mental illness and who fits into that category. Is it everyone who has ever has to take a medication for depression or a person with a deeper mental problem. I know different people who take medications for mild depression that I would trust to have weapons and there are others who take no medication at all that I wouldn't trust at all. We should not target the law abiding people, I can't reiterate that enough. I watched the show today and the gentleman from the NRA I believe was trying to get a point across, that being, (and I'm sure we've heard it all before) guns don't kill people, people kill people. Which is true. It the boy didn't use an AR-15 or similar rifle he could have used a lever action rifle and killed a lot of people and had his handgun to continue to fire if met by others until he could reload his rifle. Then, what we be talking about banning? Think outside of the box.

Here we go again a divided issue to divide this Nation more and we will get no where with it. First make no doubt about it the NRA is not the NRA I joined when I was 12 years old(48 years ago) and learning to shoot a gun. It has been hyjacked by the Gun Industry since the Clinton Brady Bill, which was a by partisan effort after the attempted to kill President Regan. The sides are chosen ban tactical guns, 30 shot magazines, armed teachers, put police officers in schools, etc. First making laws do not make us safe as we know from the increase of laws this country has now. All we have are prisons full of convicts supported by citizens that obey the law. How do we pay for putting cops in schools or assigning military to guard schools. The crazys will find another target be it a movie theater. Having been an Law Enforcement officer for 35 years I have seen the carnage of violence through, guns, knives, and physical violence and the results are the same, it's bad. The question is how we do this together as a nation without violating the constitution. i would propose an expansion of the current law that requires those who want to own a fully automatic weapon pays annual fees for a license on each weapon. We put this on all the semi-automatic tactical non-hunting weapons and high capacity magazines. This would also require and annual criminal and mental health check on the owner. The fee's could be used to pay for the program (you play you pay). You don't loose your right to guns it is to regulate as it is now. As we all know this will not stop gun violence. It will just put another filter to lower the percentages. We have regulations on concealed carry. As a law enforcement officer to carry a National Concealed weapon I have to qualify with the weapon I choose to carry on a qualified range under the direction of a law enforcement agency. I apply and with the documents needed I pay for the license that does a criminal check as well. We just need to expand the mental health reporting to be included as well.

You should issue an apology, or address this moment-

I wanted to comment on something that happened at the very end of your show yesterday. At the very end of meet the press this week, at the end of the roundtable, Rep. Chaffetz made an outgoing joke about giving guns as a Christmas stocking stuffer, which Mr. Greggory laughed at. Of all the topics covered yesterday this moment stuck with me. I think this joke goes to the heart of why guns are still an issue in this country. Even at a moment of a tragedy like the one we just had you two felt comfortable enough to joke about giving guns as gifts. I personally found this very offensive, and I think you should apologize for endorsing guns at this moment and undercutting the seriousness of the issue. At the very least I think it deserves some conversation on your show to discuss this moment. It's really amazing only in America do we laugh about guns in this manner, maybe we should be giving out these high capacity clips as stocking stuffers to go with the guns wrapped neatly under the tree. Merry Christmas, and happy holidays.

Thanks

Eric

With typical liberal logic, Gregory shows the stupidity of the liberal media. In showing a large clip, he's demonstrating that, if a dopey reporter can circumvent D.C.'s strict gun laws, that means a criminal can't?