Fox News host Geraldo Rivera made another outrageous statement regarding gun control, and his distaste for those who choose to exercise their right for the Second Amendment.
On Friday’s Fox & Friends show, Geraldo was asked to comment on a recent story out of Pasadena, Texas about a mother who was “charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”
In a shocking video taken by many bystanders, the mother, Viridiana Alvarez, 33, pulled out her gun and pointed it to a high school student who was fighting her daughter near school. The mother claims the gun was unloaded and only took it out to scare the student away from her daughter. Apparently, the fight was broken up by campus police and was over a boy. Both girls were suspended from school while the mother is being held on $35,000 bond.
Speaking about the incident, Geraldo said :
First I'll talk about the guns. I think that there are far too many creepy, untrained people with deadly weapons in their possession, legally and I lament that, that's a gun-control argument I can never win. There are also specific laws against bringing guns into a school area, that makes the crime more egregious. I think in this case this mother was WAY over her head...if her daughter was threatened with serious bodily harm, I understand the instinct, if the gun is legal, I understand the parent's instinct to take the gun out...
You can't allow your love of guns or the Second Amendment to trump that this was an irresponsible and potentially deadly act, the family said the gun wasn't loaded, how are they going to prove that?
Rivera has never been a fan of the NRA. As a matter of fact, NB's Geoffrey Dickens noted last September that Rivera said the Second Amendment was “blind and stupid” and offered the NRA an opportunity for “relentless pimping for the gun industry.”
Like I’ve always said, the Second Amendment, the provision that gives every American the right to keep and bear arms, is blind and stupid. In its relentless pimping for the gun industry, the NRA has unleashed an avalanche of deadly weapons on this gun-crazy country.
Rivera and the Fox & Friends hosts then focused on the fact that the people surrounding the fighting teens were taping the whole incident, not one person ever stepping in to stop the fight. They said that people are more interested in taping and Instagramming shocking and horrific moments, regardless of how deadly they might become.
