Via WTTG

Emily Miller, the chief investigative reporter for Fox’s Washington affiliate WTTG, doesn’t have many fans in gun control advocacy. In fact, most gun-control advocates want her fired, because of her vocal pro-gun stance, which many feel color her reporting into advocacy.

In January, Washingtonian reported about Miller’s speech at a pro-gun rally in Virginia in which she stated that “D.C. is not part of America.” Her comments at the rally was just the latest ruffling of feathers that led to the massive petition that will be delivered to WTTG General Manager Patrick Paolini next Tuesday.

“This is the behavior of an activist and pundit, not a journalist,” the petition states. “Given her record, D.C. and Maryland residents can’t trust that Miller will provide objective coverage on matters of concern to their city.”

The Virginia rally in January isn’t the only example of Miller’s gun advocacy. Last month, she spoke at a gun rally in Annapolis, saying “I live in D.C. now, so our gun laws, your gun laws, I feel your pain … No American should ever have to move to have their constitutional rights recognized … God gave us these rights. These are human rights.”

Miller also wrote the book Emily Gets Her Gun…But Obama Wants to Take Yours, in which she argues that D.C.’s gun laws are unconstitutional. The petition also says that she testified before the D.C. Council’s Judiciary Committee in favor of looser gun laws and that she’s been accused of “fabricating stories on WTTG to further her pro-gun agenda.”

Neither Miller nor Paolini immediately returned a request for comment.

“By the standards of her profession, Emily Miller has no business calling herself a journalist,” Ladd Everitt, communications director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said in a statement. “Miller’s crusade against popular gun laws has been a professional one since the beginning. At this point, area residents can have no reasonable expectation that she will provide objective, impartial coverage on matters of concern to them. If Miller wishes to behave like a pundit and activist, then WTTG should replace her with an actual reporter.”

The petition will be delivered to Paolini on Tuesday, March 24 at 2 p.m.