By Police1 Staff
LAS VEGAS — During an interview with KLAS-8, one Nevada lawmaker said it was okay for a person to point a gun at a cop as long as the cop drew first.
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) was talking to a local TV station April 24 about the Bureau of Land Management and the agency’s 2014 standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Fiore’s previous outspoken support of the rancher was said to have launched her into the national spotlight.
The KLAS host asked her, “We don’t have a First or Second Amendment right, do we, to point a weapon at a duly authorized law enforcement officer who is just out there doing his job?”
“I would never ever point my firearm at anyone, including an officer of the law, unless they pointed their firearm at me,” Fiore responded. “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.”
Fiore is currently running for a U.S. House seat.