FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2011 file photo, Piers Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," leaves the CNN building in Los Angeles. More than 31,400 people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the U.S. over his gun-control views. Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Last week, he called a gun advocate appearing on his "Piers Morgan Tonight" show an "unbelievably stupid man." Now, gun-rights activists are fighting back. A petition created Dec. 21 on the White House e-petition website by a user in Texas accuses Morgan of engaging in a "hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution" by targeting the Second Amendment and demands he be deported immediately. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter U.S. gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Last week, he called a gun advocate appearing on his "Piers Morgan Tonight" show an "unbelievably stupid man."
Now, gun rights activists are fighting back. A petition created Dec. 21 on the White House e-petition website by a user in Texas accuses Morgan of engaging in a "hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution" by targeting the Second Amendment. It demands he be deported immediately for "exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens."
The petition has already hit the 25,000 signature threshold to get a White House response. By Monday, it had 31,813 signatures.
Morgan seemed unfazed — and even amused — by the movement.
In a series of Twitter messages, he alternately urged his followers to sign the petition and in response to one article about the petition said "bring it on" as he appeared to track the petition's progress.
"If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?" he wrote.
I have sited several factual examples that clearly illustrate the laws and weapons are inconsequential to the issue and all I get in return are canned platitudes and half constructed, misconstrued arguments that miss the point completely. It’s like trying to fill a kiddie-pool with a fire hose. You can keep pouring it on, but not much stays. Quite possibly it is just years of government school indoctrination coming to fruition. All the while we are one anointed appointment away from 2nd Amendment decimation. Before you get any more sidetracked, you do recall the most recent gun control cases (DC vs. Heller and the Chicago case) were decided at the Court with a 5/4 decision in favor of rights specifically enumerated in the Constitution. Oh how far we have fallen!!!
“From my cold dead hands”
HAPPY NEW YEAR Y’ALL!!!
Congress can make as many gun restrictions as they wish, but laws are only followed by those with decent morals and standards. We now live in a culture of decay, decline, and dis-respect (with our POTUS being the supreme example). Don't count on any more gun restrictions "stopping the violence."
BTW - I was searching the Internet, and couldn't find a single instance where a gun killed someone all by itself. There was always someone holding or operating the weapon.
If this is acceptable to you, perhaps you would agree that all men should be required to register their sex organs. The government can take fingerprints and DNA, since every penis is capable of committing rape. That makes sense, right? Because rapists don't rape women, penes do.
Don’t tell me “no one is going to take away (my) gun” as it is their stated and express purpose to do exactly that. It was you TL who chided me about my concerns over the anointed one’s future Supreme Court nominations, yet the anointed Justice Sotomayor (the wise Latina) signed an opinion that specifically states: “American do NOT have an individual right to own firearms.” The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Really???
I’ll have to check on the flame-thrower, but with the right paperwork, license and enough cash I can purchase, own/operate and mount on my porch pretty much any fully automatic military grade machine-gun I choose. Furthermore, here’s a BIG FYI for you, according to the ATF, there are approximately 175,000 fully automatic machine-guns lawfully in private ownership in the USA and NOT ONE of them as ever been used in a violent crime!
This entire issue is a people problem, not a gun problem!
You can't mount a machine gun on your porch and walk down the street with a flame-thrower on your shoulder. We already have lines drawn as to what is allowable and what isn't. A periodic review of the lines based on changes in technology over the centuries since the 2nd amendment was drafted and events which affect our society are warranted.
No one is going to take away your gun, so get over yourself.
And yes, with the right license you most certainly can own a machine gun. It's called a Class III federal firearms license. Such weapons are expensive, both to own and to use, but they can be legally owned by civilians in most states.
Changes in technology? Semi-auto's have been around since the end of the 19th century, over 100 years now. Nothing new about them or the technology they utilize. The AR itself was developed in the 60's, about half a century ago, so even it is not anything close to a "new technology".
"Over the centuries" since the 2nd was written you say TL? It's been two and change, that's all. Refering to it like it's been a few thousand years is disengenuous to those who don't know better.
But you're probably right that nobody is going to confiscate any arms right here and right now. Yet that simple fact ignore the other fact that there are elected officials who would like to do just that if given the chance. They aren't a majority by any stretch of the imagination, but they do exist. And they love to use the personal tragedies of others to push their agenda.
You and I have a Constitutional right to be armed for self-defense, sport or just because we want to!!! The contents of the Bill of Rights are unalienable, they are self-evident and God-given; or if you prefer, they are natural rights imputed to us under Natural Law, ours just for drawing breath. Man or the State cannot lawfully take them away. Too bad the teachers and administrators at Sandy Hook had their rights truncated by the government to the point of defenselessness. I can envision a different outcome had that predator been confronted with deadly force by a determined, trained and armed teacher.
Murderers kill people and laws will not change that. He could have just as easily done it with gas cans or a school bus, neither of which can be outlawed.
If legislation is the answer, then how is there a meth problem here? Surely meth is illegal. How do we still have DUI fatalities? Is driving under the influence legal? How many children have died in accidents involving cell phones? We should outlaw cell phones. The Constitution doesn't provide us a right to cell phones. Obesity kills more people than criminals with guns, could congress could solve that by outlawing high capacity plates? Sounds silly, right?
TL – I reiterate: Senator Feinstein’s Bill would /will have prevent(ed) exactly what??? Did you know in China, since 2010, various lunatics have entered into schoolyards and classrooms slaughtering 18 children and several adults in 4 incidents with scores injured? The weapon of choice, certainly an AR-15 or AK-47 or Hi-Cap Semi-Auto pistol right? NO, butcher knives and axes are the weapons available. The weapons are irrelevant!
The children of the Washington DC Elite, politicians and media alike, send their precious children to a school with 11 full-time-armed guards. This total does not include Secret Service protection for high profile students. Why can’t our precious children in Gordon County be afforded the same level of protection?
There is good news! Our buddy Piers said if the gun laws in the USA were not changed, he would self-deport.
(Insert feigned outrage here!)
Convenient you failed to mention her Bill that would have done NOTHING to prevent the heartbreak at Sandy Hook and would do NOTHING to prevent a future event. Go ahead and nonchalantly ignore her Bill ONLY increases the burden of law-abiding people to own and enjoy firearms. Disregard what Sen. Feinstein’s actual motives entail, that being the ultimate leftist utopia of a gun-free society. No Red Bull required to see that her efforts are just another “brick in the wall” towards that expressed goal.
Furthermore, Connecticut has some of the most restrictive laws concerning private ownership of firearms, their sale or transfer, carrying, home/business possession and even their storage in the home. By the time this predator pulled the trigger on himself, he had violated in excess of 20 state laws ranging from obviously murder to breaking and entering.
The good Senator’s Bill would /will have prevented exactly what???
Your specific mentions include these Feinstein bombshells
• Background check of owner and any transferee;
• Type and serial number of the firearm;
• Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint.
“…how many [sic Supremes]…anointed one gets before then.” Stop being boring.
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/assault-weapons
Will the 2nd Amendment stand the challenge of that legislation in front of the Supremes? Depends entirely on how many appointments the anointed one gets before then. The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Got it.
If you agree with that ruddy hairy axe-wound of a Brit, then repeal the 2nd Amendment. Just be forewarned, the 1st Amendment will soon follow. Where will Piers Morgan be then? Probably the Official Government Media Spokesperson on CNN. Get busy!
"By all means, Mr. Morgan, speak to your heart's content. When was it when you had to renew that card? Oh, no sir, no one's implying any kind of connection between renewal and how much you talk or what you talk about between now and then. I was just wondering."
Now what was that about tyranny and a lecture about our Constitution?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/brits-petition-government-we-dont-want-piers-morgan-back.html