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Title: Piers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid,' 'Dangerous': 'You Shame Your Country'
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URL Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s ... id-dangerous-you#ixzz2FVObHNAH
Published: Dec 19, 2012
Author: Noel Sheppard
Post Date: 2012-12-19 10:12:20 by Jethro Tull
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Views: 319
Comments: 21
CNN's Piers Morgan has been on a rabid anti-gun rant since July's Aurora, Colorado, shootings that has gotten even more venomous after Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. On Tuesday, he rudely and disgracefully tore into guest Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, calling him "an unbelievably stupid man" who's "dangerous," concluding the interview by saying, "You shame your country" (video follows with transcript and commentary): PIERS MORGAN, HOST: The AR-15, as we've now seen from the last three mass shootings in America, Aurora, the shopping mall in Oregon, and now at Sandy Hook school, is the preferred choice of weapon for disturbed young men who want to commit mass atrocity, can fire hundreds of bullets at rapid speed, if you have the right magazines. The president of the United States has indicated he wants to ban assault weapons like this. What is your view? LARRY PRATT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: I think we need to ban gun control laws that keep people from being able to protect themselves. The problem is not going to go away if we ban this or that gun. We've tried that. That doesn't work. Doesn't even work in England. You have mass murders there all over Europe. There have been mass murderers. MORGAN: You're talking complete and utter -- you are talking complete and utter nonsense. PRATT: The solution is for people to be able to defend themselves at the point of the crime and not wait for 20 minutes for the police come after everybody is dead. MORGAN: What you've just said, Mr. Pratt, was an absolute lie. The gun murder rate in countries like Britain or Germany or Australia, we've all suffered massacres many years ago, similar nature, have -- there are 35 people killed a year. Your country has 12,000. PRATT: Your murder rate has -- your murder rate is lower than ours, that is true. Your violent -- MORGAN: Lower? It's 75 against 12,000 in Australia. PRATT: Your violent crime rate -- MORGAN: They had a massacre. And they got rid of the assault weapons. I honestly don't understand why you would rather have people be victims of a crime than be able to defend themselves. It's incomprehensible. MORGAN: You're an unbelievably stupid man, aren't you? PRATT: It seems to me that you're morally obtuse. You seem to prefer being a victim to being able to prevail over the criminal element. And I don't know why you want to be the criminal's friend. MORGAN: What a ridiculous argument. You have absolutely no coherent argument whatsoever. You don't -- you don't actually give -- PRATT: You have no -- MORGAN: You don't give a damn, do you, about the gun murder rate in America? You don't actually care. All you care about -- PRATT: It seems to me that facts don't bother you, do they, Mr. Morgan? MORGAN: -- is the right for any -- Americans -- you would like to see -- (CROSSTALK) PRATT: Facts seem to -- they bounce right off of your head. MORGAN: No, no, let's deal with some facts. PRATT: You're speaking oblivious... Morgan's attacks began a bit later: MORGAN: Can you answer my question? PRATT: I'm answering your question. I wish you could understand it. Because you're talking against self-defense. MORGAN: Would you like to see -- would you like to see -- would you like to see -- PRATT: You're talking against people being able to protect themselves. MORGAN: Would you like to see teachers armed -- PRATT: And you don't want to hear it, that's why you keep interrupting me. MORGAN: No, no, I don't mind hearing it. I think it's complete nonsense. But I mind hearing it. You would like to see -- PRATT: Well, Brits tend to do that, don't they? MORGAN: Stop being so facetious. I just want you to answer this one question. Post what happened at Sandy Hook, your answer to this problem of repeated use of this weapon with these high-capacity magazines is to continue letting Americans buy them with impunity, and to not concern yourself with these mass shootings, is that right? And for you to support them means that you're really blind to the role that that plays in enabling murders to operate within impunity. MORGAN: Yes, I know -- I know why sales of these weapons have been soaring in the last few days. It's down to idiots like you. Mr. Pratt, thank you for joining me. When we come back -- PRATT: Thank you for your high-level argument, Mr. Morgan. It's really good. MORGAN: You know what, you wouldn't understand the meaning of the phrase high-level argument. You are a dangerous man espousing dangerous nonsense. You shame your country. PRATT: Disarmament is dangerous. (INAUDIBLE) into role model. MORGAN: Yes. Sure. I know all about role models and you're not one of them. Poster Comment: Pratt puts this feckless British twat in his proper place. Piers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid,' 'Dangerous': 'You Shame Your Country'
PRATT: Your violent crime rate is higher than ours as is the violent crime rate in Australia. America is not the Wild West that you are depicting. We only have the problems in our cities, and unhappily, in our schools where people like you have been able to get laws put on the books that keep people from being able to defend themselves..png)
PRATT: The Second Amendment means what it says, and meanwhile, you want to continue laws against self-defense. Laws that prohibit self-defense. Laws that prohibit teachers and other faculty, other members of the administration in schools from being able to defend themselves if they have a concealed carry permit. The laws prohibit them right now. We have been lobbying against those laws since they were put on. We will continue to do so, pointing out that that is where the problem is.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
The English are either fags or traitors. Sometimes, both, snicker.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
I'd bet Piers wears panties.
Pink silk ones. I had a roommate once who wore woman's black silk underwear. "Have Brain, Will Travel
Unless that person was a woman, I wouldn't be bragging about that on the Internet if I were you. Piers is a ballless twat. Jessee Ventura smacks his ass all over the place here:
I didn't know about it until the police found his body in the woods. "Have Brain, Will Travel
I had a roommate once who wore woman's black silk underwear. Unless that person was a woman, I wouldn't be bragging about that on the Internet if I were you. LOL! Yeah, Turtle, wazup living with a tranny? Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
JMHO - I don't give one shit what this foreign imported pimple-dick says, believes, or does. He obviously doesn't understand our culture so I'd invite him to take his shit-for-brained ass back where he came from, and may his head fall through his asshole and break his friggin' neck. Luke The Spook The 'Nam '65 It wasn't me. I wasn't there. I didn't do that. You don't know me. The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. - George Carlin
I agree with that 100%. Very well and very colorfully stated. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
You didn't read where I wrote I knew nothing about it until the police found his body in the woods? Actually it was a skeleton wearing women's black silk panties. "Have Brain, Will Travel
Yeah, that's a likely story. You weren't "hacked," were you? LOL!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken "..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
Actually he was a lifelong drug addict he decided to end it and went into the woods and swallowed a bunch of Seconals. His skeleton was found six months later, wearing women's black silk underwear. His ex-girlfriend once told me he held a 9mm against her head in his room in my apartment. He told me he had no memory of it. Too many drugs'll do that to you. "Have Brain, Will Travel
Evidently our *Dangerous Gun Culture!!* isn't so dastardly that it's chased that limey bastard back to Merry Olde England....
#2. To: Turtle (#1)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
I'd bet Piers wears panties.
#4. To: Turtle (#3)
I had a roommate once who wore woman's black silk underwear.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
#6. To: FormerLurker (#4)
Unless that person was a woman, I wouldn't be bragging about that on the Internet if I were you.
#7. To: FormerLurker (#4)
#4. To: Turtle (#3)
#8. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Piers Morgan Calls Pro-Gun Advocate 'Unbelievably Stupid,' 'Dangerous': 'You Shame Your Country'
#9. To: Luke The Spook, Post of the Day (#8)
JMHO - I don't give one shit what this foreign imported pimple-dick says, believes, or does. He obviously doesn't understand our culture so I'd invite him to take his shit-for-brained ass back where he came from, and may his head fall through his asshole and break his friggin' neck.
#10. To: James Deffenbach (#7)
LOL! Yeah, Turtle, wazup living with a tranny?
#11. To: Turtle (#10)
#12. To: James Deffenbach (#11)
Yeah, that's a likely story.
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#14. To: Turtle (#12)
Seconal (secobarbital) wouldn't be a bad way to go. There are far worse ways, that's for sure.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
#15. To: X-15 (#13)
Yeah, he needs to go back there or maybe Australia where he will be safe from those terrible guns. Of course in Australia he could have the pleasure of dying from other causes like being bitten by a brown snake, a funnel web spider, a blue-ring octopus or one of many of nature's best killers. And in either country he could still be killed by someone who pays no attention to gun laws. After all, anyone who doesn't mind killing other people certainly doesn't mind stealing a gun or buying one on the black market. And then there are always knives, garrotes, swords, etc., etc. Evidently our *Dangerous Gun Culture!!* isn't so dastardly that it's chased that limey bastard back to Merry Olde England....
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
#16. To: James Deffenbach (#15)
A dingo could also eat his baby.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#17. To: James Deffenbach, Turtle (#14)
OMG, why weren't the feminist all over this? Oppressive Male enhances agenda by ripping off female gifts to modern culture! Just as the Stones, Yardbirds, and millions of other limey bands stole even the basic concept of written or recorded music from such oppressed luminaries as Moses "Chickenbone" LaTourniqet Jefferson, so today a new threat preys upon America's unguarded undergarment visionaries...
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#18. To: Dakmar (#17)
I think the current crop of "artists" are stealing their lyrics from LaTourettes Jefferson. Just as the Stones, Yardbirds, and millions of other limey bands stole even the basic concept of written or recorded music from such oppressed luminaries as Moses "Chickenbone" LaTourniqet Jefferson, so today a new threat preys upon America's unguarded undergarment visionaries...
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
#19. To: James Deffenbach (#18)
Yeah, but I just laugh every time a Vietcong calls me a honky. I think the current crop of "artists" are stealing their lyrics from LaTourettes Jefferson.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Why does this guy have a show again? He sucks!
God is always good!
#21. To: RickyJ (#20)
He's not even related to Gloria Vanderbilt, like anyone cares about her... Why does this guy have a show again? He sucks!
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
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