Piers Morgan Back Standing On Graves Again, Still Ignorant and Nasty

Piers Morgan is back. And he wants your guns.

Again.

Public Radio International hosted Morgan for an interview on Thursday to talk about the Umpqua Community College mass shooting in Oregon. Morgan, who spent years lecturing Americans about the supposed need for gun control on CNN, jumped right back into his old habits, telling Americans, “To me, doing nothing is unconscionable.”

Yelling randomly to “do something” smacks of both incompetence and ignorance. But then again, that’s typical for both Morgan and the anti-gun left, including the White House, which tweeted this today:

There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America. It’s time for Congress to help #StopGunViolence. https://t.co/eoz4mT2cDr

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 8, 2015

What are Obama’s proposals that would have stopped Umpqua? He has none. But Congress must “DO SOMETHING!!!1!!”

Yelling randomly to “do something” smacks of both incompetence and ignorance. But then again, that’s typical for both Morgan and the anti-gun left, including the White House

Back in 2013, Morgan and I had a rather combustible exchange on this issue after the Sandy Hook massacre. Unfortunately, Morgan’s mugging by reality had little impact on him. Aside from continuing to stand on the graves of the dead in order to promote his ambiguous agenda, he has now advanced his argument to the point of arguing for a full-scale gun grab — a move forward from when he refused to embrace that policy while debating me:

When Australia had 35 people killed in a massacre in Hobart in 1996, they changed all their gun laws irrevocably, and they have not had a mass shooting for 20 years. There is an example here to be looked at, and I simply urge Americans to look at it and say, ‘Is there something we can do, given the large volume of guns already on the streets of America, to try and reduce gun violence?’

Naturally, Morgan does not mention the fact that Australia’s full-scale gun seizure did virtually nothing to stem the murder rate in the country; in fact, the number of murders jumped markedly in 1999. He also neglects to mention that the gun crime doubled in the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2009, even though handguns were essentially banned in the country after a school massacre in 1996. Mass shootings are not the only form of violence – in fact, they are a vast statistical outlier. But none of that matters to Morgan. All that matters is feeling good.

Morgan concluded his asinine comments with a slap at American philosophy regarding the usefulness of firearms:

If you’re happy to live in a country that espouses such a philosophy, well, then I feel sorry for you. Certainly no advanced country like America, which is a great superpower and has done so many great things in its society and the way it goes about its business, nobody living in America would surely want to have a society which prides itself on being the most violent and making heroes out of mass shootings.

Morgan looks down on you. He has a full complement of security in his various media appearances; he presumably lives in a safe area behind a decent security system. But you are the problem: if you think good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns, you’re “making heroes out of mass shootings.”

Or, perhaps, Morgan simply makes a hero of himself for taking on those brash Americans who have the good sense not to disarm themselves on the basis of nonexistent evidence and unearned moral superiority.