Piers Morgan’s Solution to Gun Violence: “I’d Remove Every Gun in America”

guns.com ^ | 6 December, 2012 | S.H. Blannelberry

[marktwain]

On Monday, Research Director of the Independence Institute David Kopel appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight to debate the issue of gun-related violence with Piers and Josh Horwitz from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

In the video below, you can see the debate unfold. What’s most telling in this exchange is Morgan’s admission that he, personally, would like to “Remove every gun in America.”

Of course, what preceded this statement only seconds earlier was the perfunctory disclaimer, which is often made by those who secretly wish to pass onerous gun laws, “I do have a respect for the Second Amendment.”

So, obviously, there’s a clear contradiction here, on one hand, Morgan (if he had his wish) would confiscate every gun in America, but on the other he claims to have respect for a law-abiding citizen’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Piers, you can’t have it both ways. You clearly do not respect the Second Amendment if you’re true stance is pro-confiscation.

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There are two points other points to be made about this debate. The first is that the proliferation of gun ownership in America has not led to an increase in gun-related violence. Kopel pointed this out. And it’s true.

The most recent study to elucidate this fact, as Kopel alluded to, was the study done in Virginia that examined crime data and gun sales from 2006 to 2011 and found a negative relationship between gun sales, which increased 73 percent over those five years and gun-related violent crimes, which fell by 24 percent over the same period.

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Though, because the study doesn’t compute with Morgan’s preconceptions about guns and crime, he called it “a load of absolute claptrap.”

[leprechaun9]

The DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics collects and analyses reams and reams of Crime of Victimization data and for 2011 (most currently available):

Unknown if a Weapon used = 6.6%
No Weapon used = 72.9%
Total Non-Firearm = 12.5%
TOTAL FIREARM (all types) = 8%

Piers should stay in England where there is no crime because of their strict Gun Laws! And he should stop overloading his mouth with waste that should be released from another part of his anatomy!

[Bringbackthedraft]

British assholes ARE the reason we have a 2nd. Amendment. ....................................... I seem to recall that the good ole USA had to send Britain loads of weapons in 1940 to save their butts.

“we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,”.

Great words, but how were they to do it with broom sticks? With no influx of weapons from the USA, and no invasion of Russia by Hitler, where would Britain have been once the Germans landed? Morgan would be speaking German today.

[MachIV]

I would like to see him bring his Limey ass and just by-damn try it. That would be funny.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Maybe Piers can unilaterally give up his own guns.

[trebb]

Tell him to come knocking at my door with the intent to disarm me...

Idiots like this have no sense of what would happen to this country if they bared the throats of the People by removing all the guns - it's akin to getting rid of all our nukes and disarming our military while the rest of the world stays armed...

[Travis McGee]

[Georgia Girl 2]

How about we just send Piers back to New Muslimstan (London) where he belongs?

[csmusaret]

Here Piers, put this in front of your house....

[tumblindice]

You tried that about two and half centuries ago, Britboy.
Try it again and we’ll remove every talk show host in America.

[pepsi_junkie]

But how could he know who has guns? He’d have to obliterate our privacy hy illegally hacking all our phones or something equally heinous. Oh wait, he’s good with that, done it before. Nevermind.

[bikerman]

Morgan (if he had his wish) would confiscate every gun in America

You can have mine anytime bullets first of course.

[Puppage]

Fair enough.

[tweakDU]

I would sign on to an agreement that exchanges one turned in gun for one brain cell out of this idiot’s head. That way we could take 7 guns off the street.

[ConservativeStatement]

“This next letter comes to us from a boy name Piers. He wrote ‘Casey, I would like to dedicate ‘Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows’ to myself. So here is Lesley Gore on American Top 40...”

[AuntB]

A better solution would be to remove all liberal limies from the USA who think they should have an opinion about ANYTHING!

[RetSignman]

[...his parents name him “Piers”...]

They were originally going to call him ‘Pier’ because of those yellow stained sheets but they figured he would outgrown it...he didn’t.

[Rappini]

I think Mahareshi (Rush) said it best, Liberals make decisions based on emotion whereas Conservatives make decisions based on facts.

[windsorknot]

Go for it, Piers. Just make sure everything is in order, including your will.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We did that with drugs, and drugs are more plentiful than ever, Pierce.

[ozzymandus]

I’d remove Piers Morgan (which it appears CNN is about to do).