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On Piers Morgan Tonight, host Piers Morgan freaked out — rightly so — over his pro-gun guests who claimed that more guns are the solution to America’s 10,000 gun deaths each year. Friday, 20 children and six adults were the victims of a 20-year old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut. Friday’s shooting was the second-worst in American history.
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Via CNN:
“Why on Earth would you want more guns in schools after what’s happened today,” Morgan asked Steve Dulan.
Joining the program remotely from Ann Arbor, MI, the Attorney for the Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners made his case:
“If we could suddenly make all guns disappear, I’d have a different position,” he stated. “The simple facts are, guns exist. They are essentially 1800’s technology…they’re easy to make, they’re not going anywhere, they last several human lifetimes with minimal maintenance. So since guns exist, and we know for a fact that the only way to stop an evil person, like the person you were discussing earlier in the show, is to shoot him…”
At this point, Morgan jumped back in, presenting a different angle:
“This is exactly the argument that I have been hearing ever since I joined CNN,” he noted. “The argument I keep hearing is well if everybody else was armed, it wouldn’t happen. It’s a load of total hogwash!”
Siding with the host, Jerrold Nadler added some statistics to the argument:
“The proof of the pudding, is that in every other industrialized country in the world, other than the United States, they have reasonable gun control laws,” said the New York Congressman. “They have 100 people a year, not 9,000 or 10,000 a year, killed by guns.”
Upon engaging in heated discourse with John Lott, who was attempting to make a case for less legislation, Morgan remained insistent with his stance:
“There are nearly 12,000 murders a year from guns in this country. When are you guys going to focus on that, and stop telling me the answer is more guns. It is not the answer!” he exclaimed to his guest. “How many more kids have to die, before you guys say, ‘we want less guns, not more.'”
“I’m upset, because I worry that the gun control laws that you’re pushing, have killed people,” said Lott, the author of “More Guns, Less Crime.”
The man behind “Piers Morgan Tonight” saw things differently:
“Oh what a load of nonsense,” he grumbled. “I’m so frustrated, I’m so furious, that these kids, have been blown away again, with legally acquired weapons. Some boy, who’s got problems, takes his mother’s three weapons – including this ridiculous assault rifle – and goes in a school and kills these kids, and you guys on the gun lobby still want to tell me the answer is more guns. It is madness!”