Piers Morgan: No regrets over calling US gun lobby stupid

[Mikal]

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the British TV host Piers Morgan to be deported after he criticised America's gun laws.

After December's Newtown school shooting President Obama opened up the emotionally charged debate over stricter gun control, which CNN host Morgan is strongly in favour of.

The White House has issued a statement defending Mr Morgan's right to free speech.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20967687


Really? 100,000 people and counting in the US have signed a petition to deport Piers Morgan because he called US gun laws stupid, and I agree with him, Americans are saying to give everyone, teachers, shop staff, cinema staff, literally EVERYONE guns so that they can use them to prevent mass murders, I mean seriously do you honestly think that is some kind of solution? It's like giving everyone in Afghanistan a machine gun so that they can stop the Taliban, wake up call, the US, UK and every other country which has a military presence there hasn't been able to stop them yet, this is an example basically saying giving everyone a gun isn't going to prevent mass murders, the only way to do that, is to remove all these guns, just like the UK did, and now we have around 40 gun murders per year, as opposed to the USA's 11 to 12 thousand per year, as Piers said in the video on the BBC website.

[[WS]Jacob]

9 January 2013. I saw this ages ago and that guy Alex Jones was on the BBC Politics Show shouting off and not allowing the other interviewees to speak.

[Dutchy]

Piers is completely right, the second amendment right is based on 1791!! Influenced by british law from 1689.... THERE IS A HUGE FUCKING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS:



AND THIS:

[[WS]Jacob]

No civilian should have the right to own a M4A1 legally. Period.

[eymas]

Wouldn't that only increase the potentiality?
*sigh*

[KelviNC]

No civilian should have the right to own a M4A1 legally. Period.

Correct

[Dutchy]

No civilian should have the right to own a M4A1 legally. Period.

I don't understand why non-lethal weapons like tazers, bean bags, etc have a more prominent role in the self defense laws. Killing someone for self defense isn't self defense, it's murder. Defending yourself by taking somebody elses life and JUSTIFYING that under retard ancient laws is simply inhumane. To consider your life so valuable that you end somebody elses in order to protect your own.... Man that's selfish.

Wouldn't that only increase the potentiality?
*sigh*

1919, prohibition, gave the illegal side of alcohol production, transportation and sale a place. Once you make something illegal, there will be people trying to bypass that and generate personal gain from it. Banning assault rifles will make the illegal trade in firearms flourish uncontrollably.

The Netherlands decriminalized the sale, private use and production on cannabis. This lead to an immense drop in hard drug use, including   heroin.

This above isn't just relevant to drug laws, it's relevant to ANY law. Give them a softer, more harmless alternative, instead of an empty void. Don't ban ALL guns, make non lethal weapons a better ALTERNATIVE.. Sure tazers and bean bags are still dangerous, but at least people can defend themselves WITHOUT jeopardizing somebody's life.

[eymas]

This above isn't just relevant to drug laws, it's relevant to ANY law. Give them a softer, more harmless alternative, instead of an empty void. Don't ban ALL guns, make non lethal weapons a better ALTERNATIVE.. Sure tazers and bean bags are still dangerous, but at least people can defend themselves WITHOUT jeopardizing somebody's life.

Amen

[Mikal]

Piers is completely right, the second amendment right is based on 1791!! Influenced by british law from 1689.... THERE IS A HUGE f**kING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS:



AND THIS:

Damn true man, I don't mean to offend Americans, but when you have a petition signed by WAY OVER 100,000 people to have a man removed from your country just because he disagree's with your gun laws, you know you either have a mental or denial problem, it's like I always hear them saying 'If the government wants my guns, they will have to fight for them,' is that really what you'd do if the government took all your guns? Murder a bunch of innocent people who are just doing their jobs..

[EliteTerm]

Here we go again...

Didn't Piers Morgan threatened to deport himself if gun control failed?

Piers is completely right, the second amendment right is based on 1791!! Influenced by british law from 1689.... THERE IS A HUGE f**kING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS:



AND THIS:

So by his logic, the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to modern media like TV and the Internet?

[[WS]Jacob]

Here we go again...

Didn't Piers Morgan threatened to deport himself if gun control failed?

Crazy Brits...

[Mikal]

Here we go again...

Didn't Piers Morgan threatened to deport himself if gun control failed?

So by his logic, the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to modern media like TV and the Internet?

If you plan on committing mass murder with a 200 year old rifle (or whatever it is) you're going to be there reloading it alot longer than a military machine gun, you can't kill people with a TV and the internet.

[Dutchy]

So by his logic, the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to modern media like TV and the Internet?

I agree, speech can be as dangerous as a gun, but speech doesn't change, guns do, they become bigger, faster, lighter... That's not "defense"... That's "death".

[EliteTerm]

No civilian should have the right to own a M4A1 legally. Period.

Civilians cannot own a M4A1 legally without going through the proper channels (ATF) because it's fully automatic. That's why there's a civilian variation of the M4A1 called the AR-15.

I agree, speech can be as dangerous as a gun, but speech doesn't change, guns do, they become bigger, faster, lighter... That's not "defense"... That's "death".

And if you try using only speech against a government that has these type of weapons that you cannot own? That's "genocide".

[Mikal]

Civilians cannot own a M4A1 legally without going through the proper channels (ATF) because it's fully automatic. That's why there's a civilian variation of the M4A1 called the AR-15.

That doesn't stop those who want to miss-use them, from getting them, I think it was the Panorama TV programme in the UK that went to the US, bought an M4A1 and some ammo from a gun market (where different people all go sell their guns in 1 place), she didn't have to show ID or anything, just took the M4A1 in a case after paying and left the building. :roll: