An Open Letter to David Gregory

Dear Mr. Gregory,

I'm writing to you concerning the December 23rd broadcast of "Meet The Press" on which you conducted an "interview" with Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association. I use the quotation marks around the word 'interview' because what you actually conducted was more akin to an interrogation than an actual interview.

If the goal of your show was to give your guest a chance to express their point of view, you failed miserably. If the goal of your show was to examine both sides of an issue in a bipartisan and fair manner, you failed even more miserably. Your show was nothing more than a platform for you to express your liberal, anti-gun agenda and to do your best to portray anyone with a differing opinion, specifically Mr. LaPierre, as some kind of radical lunatic. I found your approach to the whole interview to be biased, unreasonable, and unprofessional, and as a "professional" journalist you should be ashamed of yourself for the manner in which you conducted yourself.

I will, however, congratulate and thank you for unknowingly making the main point that Mr. LaPierre was trying to express, that point being that gun laws simply don't work because criminals don't obey the law. You did this by holding up for all the world to see a "high-capacity" magazine which, by your own admission, was capable of holding "thirty bullets." (They're called 'rounds,' by the way; a 'bullet' is the actual projectile. Looks like someone on your staff failed to do their research.) And the last time I looked, the gun laws in the District of Columbia where your show is filmed has outlawed the possession of "high-capacity" magazines - the kind you held up on your show.

That makes what you did illegal, and that, Mr. Gregory, makes you a criminal. And as Mr. LaPierre stated, criminals don't obey laws, do they? You certainly didn't, even after the producers of your show contacted the DC Police and told them what they wanted to do, and were denied permission by the police to break the law and use the magazine on the show. This is a prime example of how gun laws don't work because criminals don't obey them.

So you say you're not a criminal?

Let's see...you knew the law, asked the police about the law, were denied permission to break the law, and did it anyway. Yep, that makes you a criminal by any standard.

So now I ask you this, Mr. Gregory: When can we expect for you to turn yourself in to the DC Police so you can be charged and prosecuted for knowingly and willingly breaking an existing gun law?

I won't hold my breath.

Sincerely,

IHC