Pay close attention to what Piers Morgan says at about the four minute mark into this debate with Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro. Shapiro notes that the vast majority of gun-related killings in the US do not involve so-called “assault weapons,” they involve hand guns. Morgan allows that he does not want to ban hand guns (yet, I would add) but that he favors banning “assault weapons.”
Why?
Because killings with “assault weapons” make more headlines. That is what Morgan says. Later he derides our Constitution as “your little book.” If he didn’t deserve deportation before, he may now. What a blithering fool.
Shapiro tries pinning Morgan down a few minutes later as to why he does not favor banning hand guns given the statistics, and Morgan again notes that killings with “assault weapons” make all the headlines.
Is this not a terrible, entirely emotional argument to ban one thing but not another?
One move that nearly all Americans would agree that we should make would be to increase sentences for criminals who use guns in the perpetration of their crimes, coupled with using more meaningful life sentences for violent criminals. William Spangler should never have been released from prison, and if he had not been, those two firefighters he murdered in Webster, NY would still be alive today. He had already gone to prison and been released for a violent crime that did not include the use of a gun: He murdered his grandmother with a hammer. He only served 17 years for that brutal crime. Longer and harsher sentences would not stop the likes of the Newtown killer, but they might save some lives and lead to an overall safer society. Why is Chicago, a city boasting some of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws, overrun with murder? Might it be because the law-abiding tend to be disarmed, while criminals know that in the unlikely event that they are caught, they face a catch and release justice system?
We should be adults about this and realize that nothing short of turning America into a police state will “solve” the problem of evil people doing evil things, and herein lies the problem. We cannot be adults when the likes of Piers Morgan push the direction of the discussion with emotion rather than reason, and with bullying rather than being fair. He and those who agree with him need to grow up and learn to think and speak as adults. They need to grow up and realize that if you empower the state too far, you run the very real risk of transferring the evildoers from the streets to the top of the government.
I had no idea Ben Shapiro was so young; he looks like he’s barely out of high school.
Kudos to him; he stands up to the pompous, bullying, sneering, devious Piers Morgan more firmly and articulately than vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan stood up to the bombastic Joe Biden.
I’ll bet Mr. Morgan believes that the Magna Carta was just some grocery list of silly demands signed off by some King John dude way back in the olden days of 1215.
Of course I’m sure a professional like Mr. Morgan would find a more insulting way to describe the first step toward self rule in the Western Hemisphere.
Well, Mister Morgan, I’d much rather have our “little book” than your little…dangling participle.
The big flipping mouth doesn’t help, either.
That wouldn’t work either. Ask the warden of any prison what success he’s had keeping illegal drugs out of his demesne.
Precisely, Francis. Turning America into a police state does nothing to eradicate evil. It simply turns (the last shreds of) America into a police state: nothing more, nothing less.
good catch on the “little book” comment. It says it all, doesn’t it?
The pompous ass (along with every other leftist) puts himself above the greatest political document ever produced.
Fox should broadcast the “little book” around the clock.
The limey poofter faces phone hacking charges in the UK. Extradite him.
“What you have is a very good President and a very bad Constitution.” (He also had a little peter.)
I want this piece of tripe to go back to the UK and live under the regime of the inbred offspring of the House of Battenburg. He deserves the full benefit of living under the authority of UK governments who thrive under Quenn Elizabeth II, who has presided over the omplete dissolution of the British culture since she ascended the throne.
The fact is, this pissant leftist Brit has no future in nNgalnd; he has already been exposed there as a fraud and a charlatan.
To answer Morgan as to why I need an AR-15, because I f*ing can. Leave my shores if you don’t like it.