Ingraham: ‘Despicable’ Hillary Comments Demonstrate Profound ‘Level of Ignorance’

LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said that she found 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s “idiotic” comments about the Las Vegas massacre  “despicable” in a way that demonstrated a profound “level of ignorance,” during an interview Tuesday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”

On Sunday night, gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor music festival in a massacre that left 58 people dead and more than 500 injured. In response, Clinton took to Twitter on Monday to call upon the country to “put politics aside” and “stand up to” the National Rifle Association by issuing a call for gun control legislation that flew in the face of the Second Amendment.

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“Just the level of ignorance — and I found it despicable.” Ingraham said. “If Hillary wants to run for president again and take the Second Amendment to the ballot box, I think she should do it. Everyone who’s upset, who thinks we could pass gun laws to stop an evil person from killing a lot of people with a car, a van, a gun, whatever — they should run for office and make that point.”

“And if that’s what happens, I guess the courts will have to understand and discern what is truly constitutional under our Second Amendment,” she added.

In her tweets, Clinton said, “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get … Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”

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Saying that “politics are so inane at this point” so early on in the nation’s grieving process, Ingraham blasted Clinton for speaking “before she knew any of the facts.”

“You can’t really put a silencer on an AR-15 — melts the barrel. It’s not what she said it is,” she said. “Hillary Clinton’s comments are despicable.”

Ingraham also called out congressional Democrats who said they will refuse to honor a moment of silence for the Las Vegas victims because “Republicans are not going to do anything” to push gun control legislation and restrictions on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.

“OK, don’t join a moment of silence. I hope that makes you feel better. I don’t think it probably makes most Americans feel better,” she said. “People want politicians to just take a breath for the most part.”

“If [the Democrats] want to push gun control legislation, they should do it. I mean, we have a democracy. They can push it. They can make their points. They can be very impassioned. That is our government. That is our representative democracy,” Ingraham added. “But we do have a Constitution, we do have a Heller decision on the books, and I guess we’ll see where the courts will take any legislative action that comes from this.”

Ingraham ultimately urged Americans to realize that “there are some things you cannot stop” with more rules and more restrictions on constitutional rights because of humans’ innate sinful nature.

“People want to believe there is some explanation for this, and that is also the natural human impulse. But it could be as simple as, this man flipped — something inside of him flipped — and he could have been in his own way isolated without anyone knowing,” she said of the shooter.

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“There are some things, again — it’s not a satisfying response. There are some things you cannot stop,” Ingraham added. “Is there a government solution to every human problem? I would say no, and I think we also should think about what we do on a daily basis as individuals to each other. I also think we should remember that we’ve done a lot to kick Christianity, God, to the curb in our society the way we treat each other, in some government policies and in our schools.”

Saying that “we have to get back to the basics in human society,” she noted that “there is not a government solution for every problem.”

“And a lot of people on the Left are like, ‘If we only did this background check.’ He would have passed the background check. ‘If we outlawed machine guns.’ Guess what? They’re outlawed except for grandfather machine guns — very difficult to get. So that wouldn’t have helped,” Ingraham said.

“So when pressed — I saw a lot of these Congressmen on the other networks this morning — they were stumbling. What specifically would have stopped this? They actually have no constitutional answer,” Ingraham added. “And I do believe that it’s a time for us — Republicans and Democrats — to go back to first principles. Government cannot solve every problem.”