Genius, he is not.
Via Newsbusters:
On Monday’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe mocked NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre for asserting a year ago that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” by using the example of Antoinette Tuff, who last August heroically talked a gunman in a school into surrendering.
Wolffe treated one exceptional and unlikely case as if it proved LaPierre wrong as he awarded Tuff the show’s “person of the year” award. Wolffe:
No, really, because when the NRA says the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, this woman single-handedly not only saved lives but changed the course of that ridiculous debate to show that the thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a country with a heart. And she has a heart. […]
Not recognizing that it would be preferable to be armed so that one has the option of using the weapon if negotiation were unsuccesful, the MSNBC host repeatedly noted that she was “unarmed.” O’Donnell:
But with no weapon, Antoinette, completely unarmed, continued to try to talk him down.