NRA TV complained that James Shaw Jr., the citizen who heroically stopped the Waffle House shooter, was unarmed and could not completely incapacitate the assailant.
Shaw leapt to action during the shooting, knocking the gun out of the murderer’s hand and putting an end to the carnage.
But that wasn’t enough for the folks at NRA TV.
Host Grant Stinchfield did describe Shaw as a “hero.” But he couldn’t leave it at that.
“If someone was there with a gun, we wouldn’t be having a manhunt right now,” Stinchfield claimed.
It was a bizarre complaint he went back to later in the program. “Yes, a good guy with guts stopped a bad guy with a gun momentarily. But he didn’t stop him permanently. And this guy is still on the loose.”