Posted on 07/24/2015 9:14:39 AM PDT by rickmichaels
'This is an awful night for Lafayette, an awful night for Louisiana, an awful night for the United States,' said Governor, and presidential candidate, Bobby Jindal at the scene of America’s latest mass shooting.
His voice wobbled, his lips trembled and his eyes welled up as he dug deep into the reservoirs of statesmanlike emotion.
'This is a time for us to come together,' he said, 'What we can do now is pray. We can hug these families, shower them with love, thoughts and prayers.'
All fine words, of course.
Exactly what a Governor should say when people in his state have just been murdered and maimed as they watch a movie.
But Jindal’s rhetoric made me want to vomit, coming as they did from a man who’s on record as saying: 'In Louisiana we love us some guns.'
Louisiana is ground zero for America’s gun violence epidemic.
An official report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a year ago revealed that 45 per cent of Louisiana residents have a gun in their homes.
This compares, as the local Louisiana Weekly newspaper pointed out, to 13 per cent for Rhode Island.
The State ranks fifth for weakest gun laws in the country, according to data researched by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Louisiana has twice the national average of gun deaths, with 18 per 100,000 residents. (Rhode Island, again by comparison, has just 3 per 100,000).
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What’s funny is that Piers’ favorite footy team is Arsenal.......The Gunners!
This guy is still relevant somehow?
Whata Turd.
Morgan was Trump's first Celebrity Apprentice winner and appeared as a judge on later seasons.
I'd like to see Morgan forced into a corner to publicly deny his biggest career benefactor.
-PJ
Spare us and the world your sanctimonious bullshit Piers Morgan. This is not about guns. This is about people. Mentally ill people.. People that do not get the help they need because of people like you always blaming a tool and taking the focus off of where it needed to be. YOU Sir are as much to blame as anyone. Decades of liberal loosening of everything to do with mental illness has made it so hard for ill people t get the help they need. So piss off Morgan. Your 15 minutes has come and gone........
Was this theater publicly promoted as a gun free zone? (how stupid!)
I think I will stop by NRA-ILA site and make another donation for a good cause...our rights, keeping us safe and free...thanks for reminding me Piers.
Amen.......well said!!
Isn't he the guy wanted by the British government for hacking phones?
I might be wrong, is still alive? Did he work for a network?
I thinks he's probably dead, so how did he write this?
5.56mm
So this little puke that was run out of England for falsifying thinks that it is the NRA that is at fault. Only a decrepit channel would even cite him this arrogant British bitch that some how thinks he has something to say that anyone would actually listen to much less read anything he has to say. Just another loser that thinks he is a legend, maybe in his own mind but certainly in no one thinks so. He might be a hit in Russia but here he just another braying jackass.
Terrible event, but it won’t change our minds about protecting ourselves, Piers you smug loser.
Stay in England you jackass.
Piers should be more concerned about what will happen to his kind in the UK under sharia law.
Hasn’t he been deported yet?
Piers Morgan bleats again! Silly liberal sheep!
Hey Piers,
1) Shooter was a drifter from Phenix City AL.
2) Family had order of protection, and had taken his guns. Background check law already in place catches this.
3)Gun not obtained legally, and probably not in LA.
4)Bobby Jindal, and NRA have no bearing on this action, unless you want to say Jindal should have made Gun Free Zones illegal.
Once again you have proven your agenda. Go home, face your prison time and clean up the cesspool Britain is becoming.
We don’t care what you think or say. Jeremy Clarkson should have hit you harder.
Of course the manic/bi polar mental case is not to blame. What can we ecpect from a Brit whose royals.have a long history of mental illness. Betcha that evil gun didn’t keep killing after the evil perp dropped it. How many guns kill
without a human hand?
I’ll tell you who has blood on their hands-every judge who has contributed to making it virtually impossible to get those who are a clear danger to themselves and others, properly treated in psychiatric hospitals! And don’t even get me started on the pathetic levels of insurance “coverage” for outpatient psychiatric treatment!
Yes sir.
So many of the mass shooters are clearly mentally ill.
You can see it in their photos.
Liberal answer;
Kick them back to the street. Then they can be homeless, and we can blame Republicans.
Piers would be happy if the Guy threw a couple of Molotov Cocktails into the Theater and killed 100 People.
He would have been able to rant about Bottle, Gas, Rag and Match Control.
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