Posted on 12/09/2012 5:40:18 AM PST by marktwain
On Monday, Research Director of the Independence Institute David Kopel appeared on CNNs 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. Whats most telling in this exchange is Morgans 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, theres 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 citizens Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Piers, you cant have it both ways. You clearly do not respect the Second Amendment if youre 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 its 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 doesnt compute with Morgans preconceptions about guns and crime, he called it a load of absolute claptrap.
(Excerpt) Read more at guns.com ...
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.
I would like to see him bring his Limey ass and just by-damn try it. That would be funny.
Maybe Piers can unilaterally give up his own guns.
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...
How about we just send Piers back to New Muslimstan (London) where he belongs?
You tried that about two and half centuries ago, Britboy.
Try it again and we’ll remove every talk show host in America.
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.
Morgan (if he had his wish) would confiscate every gun in America
You can have mine anytime bullets first of course.
Fair enough.
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.
A better solution would be to remove all liberal limies from the USA who think they should have an opinion about ANYTHING!
[...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.
I think Mahareshi (Rush) said it best, Liberals make decisions based on emotion whereas Conservatives make decisions based on facts.
Go for it, Piers. Just make sure everything is in order, including your will.
We did that with drugs, and drugs are more plentiful than ever, Pierce.
I’d remove Piers Morgan (which it appears CNN is about to do).
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