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Piers Morgan To Gun Owners Of America’s Larry Pratt: Try To Stick ‘To Facts, Not Lies’
Mediaite ^ | 1-9-12 | Anjali Sareen

Posted on 01/10/2013 1:31:42 AM PST by Mozilla

CNN host Piers Morgan interviewed Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, on his show Tuesday and made one simple request: “Try to stick, if you can, to facts, not lies.”

The statement came after an extremely heated interview in which Morgan and Pratt interrupted each other several times to make their points. Morgan began the interview by immediately becoming confrontational, asking Pratt why he felt he knew more than former General Stanley Allen McChrystal on gun control. Morgan then proceeded to read several statistics which proved that more guns are not the answer.

“The data you are using is a sham,” Pratt said.

“What an absolute, absolute lie,” Morgan exclaimed.

Morgan continued to argue against Pratt’s numbers, accusing him of “deliberately lying” and “deliberately twisting” the facts so that Americans would buy into his “ludicrous fear game” and rush out to buy more guns.

“What you do is outrageous,” Morgan added.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cnn; guncontrol; guns; piersmorgan; secondamendment; thedailymail; unitedkingdom
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To: Mozilla

Everyone join Gun Owners of America. I am a member.


21 posted on 01/10/2013 5:47:13 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: Christie at the beach
I thought it was a great interview from Larry Pratt. He cleaned Piers clock pretty nicely.
Channel surfed onto it last night and I agree, Pratt was great.
When confronted by facts and the truth, PM just resorted to ad hominem attacks.
22 posted on 01/10/2013 5:59:57 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Mozilla

Who is causing America to rush out and buy guns? Stick to the facts Pee-er and stop lying.


23 posted on 01/10/2013 6:04:25 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: bmwcyle
Everyone join Gun Owners of America. I am a member.

I am a member as well. It is a great organization that refuses to compromise on our rights, as the NRA has sometimes done.

24 posted on 01/10/2013 6:11:17 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Meeting with that idiot VP is worthless.


25 posted on 01/10/2013 6:46:53 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: Mozilla

The constant lies and misinformation from the left on the gun (and other) issues unfortunately works, even in this age of the Internet and alternative media.

I was chatting with a colleague who mentioned an AR-15 consignment sale. Another colleague overheard this and stated “thats crazy. You can buy a machine gun at a consignment (ie. thrift-type) store?”

Firearm manufacturing and sales are the most regulated industry in the US, but the average uniformed voter thinks kids can buy an AR15 from NRA vending machines at school.


26 posted on 01/10/2013 7:05:42 AM PST by barefoot_hiker
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To: ansel12

Sadly we are now allowing Piers Morgan a foreigner to insert himself into a debate on our Constitutional rights. Before this he was barely hanging on to his job.


27 posted on 01/10/2013 8:20:58 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Mozilla
Does the left really want to piss off 100-million armed Americans?

Someone needs to kick this commie's ass, then back to where he came from.

28 posted on 01/10/2013 8:28:23 AM PST by MaxMax (Gun free zones was the invitation to gun bans)
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America wasn’t created to provide comfort to leftist Brits.

Hey Britch!

We Americans fought and won a war against you. You want some more?

I'm sure we can find some muskets around here somewhere.

29 posted on 01/10/2013 8:28:35 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

It is ego, not brains, that cause people like Larry Pratt to offer themselves to the TV Gods.


30 posted on 01/10/2013 8:40:43 AM PST by billhilly
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To: Mozilla

I can’t watch 19 minutes of that twit.

I don’t think Alex Jones did our side any favors with his otuburst, but I do think we need to get in their faces more in a calmer way.

I just tell ‘em: “Not you. Not mine. Not ever.”


31 posted on 01/10/2013 8:46:19 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Mozilla

why is he here? didn’t he spy on folks during his UK media career?

ya know where ya can stuff some deportation papers, Piers?


32 posted on 01/10/2013 10:20:47 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: bmwcyle

I’ve had enough. I joined today.


33 posted on 01/10/2013 1:46:06 PM PST by Buddy Sorrell ( John Boehner is our Pierre Laval. We need a Charles DeGaulle.)
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To: Buddy Sorrell

Thank you


34 posted on 01/10/2013 1:47:23 PM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: Mozilla

Just once I’d like to see someone say “Oh, yeah?” and spit a big old hocker right in some liberal’s face.


35 posted on 01/10/2013 8:01:49 PM PST by Terry Mross
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