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NRA's LaPierre: Why Don't Media Ask White House Why Chicago Is Last in Enforcing Gun Laws?

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NRA's LaPierre: Why Don't Media Ask White House Why Chicago Is Last in Enforcing Gun Laws?
by Noel Sheppard

National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre asked a marvelous question on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.

"Why doesn't the national press corps, when they're sitting down there with Jay Carney and the president and the vice president, why don't they say, 'Why is Chicago dead last in enforcement of the gun laws against gangs with guns, felons with guns, drug dealers with guns?'" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

WAYNE LAPIERRE: I mean, let me give you the real sad thing though. Let me hold up a mirror right now to the whole national news media and the White House. I just got the track data from Syracuse University of enforcement of federal gun laws. Last time I was here, I brought it from 2011; it just came out from 2012.

Do you know where Chicago ranks in terms of enforcement of the federal gun laws? Out of 90 jurisdictions in the country, they ranked 90th. Why doesn't NBC News start with, "Shocking news on Chicago. Of all the jurisdictions in the country, Chicago's dead last on enforcement of the federal gun laws?" Why doesn't the national press corps, when they're sitting down there with Jay Carney and the president and the vice president, why don't they say, "Why is Chicago dead last in enforcement of the gun laws against gangs with guns, felons with guns, drug dealers with guns?

DAVID GREGORY, HOST: And you support those as felonies, being charged as felonies?

LAPIERRE: Absolutely. And we want them taken off the street. I mean, if you're the president and the vice president, and the attorney general, and your job is to enforce these laws against the-- I'm talking about drug dealers, gangs, and felons that are walking around with guns in the street, and you don't do it? You bear some responsibility. It is a tragedy.

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Why don't media do that?

Well, in the first place, it would interfere with the gun control agenda if Americans were told that one of the reasons for all the shooting deaths in Chicago was that the existing firearms laws in that city weren't being properly enforced.

Beyond this, the Obama-loving media never want to say anything bad about that city because the mayor there just so happens to be the current White House resident's former Chief-of-Staff.

Other than that, I'm sure they'll get right on this Monday.

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