134 Comments

• AncientSeeker | Jan 14, 2013, 12:59 AM EST

  See here is the real point of this gun thing in the colonies,see some people think our Constitution gave every citizen the right to own a gun, not to brandish it in public. Second, would make little difference what the law says, if you break into an armed americans home-castle, if he he or she has a gun, your dead, be damed the law! The group that is raising all this hell want to carry conceled weapons inot parks, churches, hospital and scholls, or assualt rifles in the streets. Our law, the second amendment was made so we as individuals could keep our self armed so if a police state tried to come into existence we could resist. That and since the mid 1600 americans have been collecting weapons,unlicensed, un-documented, some say as much as a billion exsit today

• seanomelb | Jan 13, 2013, 02:01 AM EST

  Austalians do not shoot children,only in America. Leave your guns at home Smynian don't take your guns to town especially Newtown, they may have your guts for garters.

• Smyrnian | Jan 12, 2013, 10:02 AM EST

  Sean - you need psych help, man. I hope you don't live near a school. Seriously, you need anger management and meds BIG time.

• seanomelb | Jan 11, 2013, 05:28 PM EST

  I had a typo on similitude and its Sunday for the crazy wizard. How easy it is to make your day simpleton. I made no false statements therefore you misused "sohistry" I hope psyche tests will become mandatory for gun owners as you would not pass the test moron. I am bored toying with. Go enable another mass child killing, gunlover. I'm finished with this topic dumbo.

• Towngate | Jan 11, 2013, 04:33 PM EST

  As a Tax-paying Legal Resident of the US, Piers has every right to air his opinions. I wonder how many 'Illegals' are wandering about the country brandishing their ridiculous guns around ....

• ray bass | Jan 11, 2013, 11:26 AM EST

  Morgan is telling it like it is. However, there is evidence that in states that have legalized the right to carry concealed weapons the rate of violent crime, including gun-related crime, has gone down..... It may not make sense, but until we do make sense of it (or refute it), it cannot be ignored. If you are going to handle a problem, deal with it -- all of it.

• wizardofoz | Jan 11, 2013, 11:06 AM EST

  "Your mis-use of similtude" Well, first of all lets correct your spelling and fallacious use of grammar. 1) the correct spelling and grammatical presentation of the word you quote is Misuse, get it correct if you are going to be pedantic! And I never used the word 'similtude' I have no idea what that word means but perhaps a great literary giant like you can inform all as to its meaning and give a clear definition, floors all yours. When it comes to the word "sophistry" I was being kind to you the word means "A false, but clever argument' I guess your dumb reply blows that one clean out of the water... simpleton. You see, I don't have to lift a finger to show you up as an ignoramus I just keep you posting use the right words, which are way over your little pin-head and you do the rest of my work for me.... Similtude....LOL... Well FMOB's...And you have the brass neck to call me 'THICK' .LOLOLOLOL...

• Moose Muffin | Jan 11, 2013, 08:14 AM EST

  That's fine, but has anyone asked Piers what he would do if he was confronted with a burglar who was about to kill and rape his daughter and or wife. The man in Connecticut who's family was murdered raped and house burned down has since changed his mind on gun control. Where you sit is where you stand. All guns kill. Hunters like to hunt. Gangs will hide their precious guns. There is nothing anyone can do. Metal detectors in schools. Perhaps having make the entrance the exit and plain clothes security men scattered about in schools is about all you can do.

• eiriamach | Jan 10, 2013, 08:44 PM EST

  And "basted" and "prevalent" misused and "weaved" for "woven" and contempt that has pores in it and "where" for "were" and ... oh darn, the English teacher in me is screaming "back to second grade! Who passed him along to third?" Morally thin, and so narrow minded he could clean both ears with a single motion of one cotton swab if non-stop logorrhea weren't pushing his ears a half-inch apart from each other. Oh that felt good. Now I can revert to my Catholic schoolgirl manners and my customary philosophic equanimity again! Cheers!

• seanomelb | Jan 10, 2013, 05:08 PM EST

  You sure are thick!! I answered your Question in all honesty and you ignore my answer and further more you fail to condemn Right wing terrorists. Your mis-use of "similtude" and "sophistry" only belays your ignorance. You remind me of the " Kings new clothes",you are so morally thin even a blind man could see through you

• Smyrnian | Jan 10, 2013, 02:50 PM EST

  No doubt another well known nut job off his meds. Always the same. We changed the laws in this country about 35 years ago so crazies can't be incarcerated unless they commit a crime. Psychiatric Centers (mental Hospitals) are empty across this land and the crazies are amongst us pushing people in front of trains, molesting kids repeatedly, committing crimes, sleeping on streets and subways and (some) killing people. Lets get real and lock them up. Years ago gun laws were a lot more lax but crazies loose in society killing people hardly ever happened. So what changed? The law changed so let's change it back and remove the PEOPLE who do these terrible things.

• bobby | Jan 10, 2013, 02:40 PM EST

  Another school shooting today, California this time.

• wizardofoz | Jan 10, 2013, 12:01 PM EST

  Ya know, Mel, I have always thought of you as someone a little limited in the brain department. But, in order to prove it, I would have to get you to confirm it all by yourself. So I put in motion a little test, which in its own simple way, I would prove your cognitive ability to spot a fallacious argument basted solely on sophistry, you would be found wanting. Are you smart enough to spot the similitude? I don't think so. And I was right, you are clueless when it comes to expressing yourself in the English langue, or extrapolating how others use it, its all about content and how it is weaved into the prevalent contexts being used. I made a deliberate statement calling you a user of 'second-hand worn-out cliché's', like "a legend in his own lunchtime" and pored contempt on your silly endeavours and then gave you the perfect come back and slap-down by deliberately using a silly old cliché myself to see if you where on the ball, "Your done and Dusted" sadly for you it went right over your empty head into the hands of the keeper. Your only comeback was 'nit-picking'. Game, set and match to yours truly.LOLOLOL

• wizardofoz | Jan 10, 2013, 11:52 AM EST

  Macho, please consider. Its a straight forward simple question with NO strings attached so no wiggling room from honest people required. Please answer the question: "Do you support a proscribed terrorists organization the right to hold onto illegal arms while at the same time demanding the vast majority of the innocent population of good law abiding Americans having legally held arms should hand them over to a government which is its self armed to the teeth.?" What's your simple answer? YES terrorists should hold onto their illegal arms and YES all good law-abiding American citizens should be disarmed. See... it ain't so hard is it? So, what's your answer? This is a NO waffle zone simple question YES and YES or NO and NO Of course I know the answer, but I want to hear it from you.

• wizardofoz | Jan 10, 2013, 11:42 AM EST

  Macho- at no time and at no point have you attempted to refute or rebut any of my acquisitions regarding either you, or the 'armchair warrior' hiding in the land of OZ. you make the animus claim the 'armchair warrior' fray the land of OZ, has made pertinent points which I have failed to address? But you give no example of this failure? Are you some dumb ignoramus or a silly little kid with NO idea how a meaningful debate is structured? You ignored every word of my reply to you, never mentioned a word of it and come on here and expect to be taken seriously.....C'mon how thick do you think the posters that contribute to this forum are that you believe you can treat them with such scorn!!! My point is a simple equation the equivalence of which should be lost on NO one with a scintilla of intellect. Just to rub your ever growing and petulant nose in it once more, I shall ask the simple question, only because I know with every refusal to acknowledge it, on your part, or failure to offer a rebuttal condemns you for what I know you are, a terrorist toady. You can only defend and rebut such a claim if you address the allegation contain therein in the first instance. You have not done this because you are inept and at a lost in such a situation, in other words you fear the problem and so wish to avoid it like the plague. Not a word of derision pertaining to my post just empty waffle from an auld terrorists apologist. Now fug-off you amphoric nobody...!

• seanomelb | Jan 10, 2013, 12:22 AM EST

  Wiz lad!! that would depend on who is "proscribing" the organisation. Terorism comes ion many forms and most of them wear uniforms. The U.S. or Britain or Russia may proscribe organisations I will make a decision based on conscience as to whom is the terrorist and whom is not. I do not live by your extreme right agenda. I do not condone the murder of thousands of women and children by the U.S. using terrorist like Ollie North.That's your game not mine

• seanomelb | Jan 09, 2013, 05:32 PM EST

  Wiz nitpicking jibes only strenhgtens my case as to your ignorance dear boy. You can retire now sullied and beaten. Next time find an issue and make common sense posts. Maybe you take a walk with the tin man, he's smarter than you.

• Smyrnian | Jan 09, 2013, 02:23 PM EST

  Piers Moran needs to go home.

• eiriamach | Jan 09, 2013, 12:09 PM EST

  wizardofoz, who is "macho man"??? Perhaps you mean to refer to eiria*mach*, an Irish word, not Spanish? Pardon me for ignoring you, but perhaps you can understand why I do not recognize "machoman" and "lad" as aimed at me (if they were) or any of the other silly assumptions you toss around about other posters. I'm familiar with the Spanish-derived word "macho," generally defined as "showing aggressive pride in one's masculinity: 'the big macho tough guy'." I don't play that game, not only because I'm female, but really because, as evident in your diatribes below, it's a game full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. You have not FOCUSED on a single fact that refutes ANYTHING seanomelb wrote. Your blathering is irrational, unfocused, laden with insults galore, venom-spewing and self-serving, in short, "macho." You can leave me out of that game, and I'll be around when you decide to engage rationally in real facts. Signed, eiriamach.

• Smyrnian | Jan 09, 2013, 07:53 AM EST

  Sean - I stand by my comment.

• wizardofoz | Jan 09, 2013, 07:14 AM EST

  "Wiz is a legend in his own lunchtime" Yeah right, ever thought to change your moniker to "Cliché" more in keeping with your persona and style you know, second-hand worn-out cliché's, what a bore you prove to be. Each time you attempt to take me on you just look more and more foolish. You are done and dusted your ego has suffered a baneful hiding this past few days let that be a lesson to you. Be gone while the going is good! Now some other dingbat is trying the same nonsense. You cretins don't know when to keep your gobs shut but hay, funs fun right. And I'm having fun lots 'a fun right now. LOLOLOLOLOL........

• wizardofoz | Jan 09, 2013, 07:01 AM EST

  Hay, macho-man. Its now a 'little later', your turn, please consider. Its a straight forward simple question with NO strings attached so no wiggling room, (as if) please answer the question: "Do you support a proscribed terrorists organization the right to hold onto illegal arms while at the same time demanding the vast majority of the innocent population of good law abiding Americans having legally held arms should hand them over to a government which its self is armed to the teeth.?" What's your simple answer? YES! terrorists should hold onto their illegal arms and YES! all good law-abiding American citizens should be disarmed. It don't require a Doctorate on Social Order or a Masters on Social Sciences to come up with a truthful answer. So, what's yours? I know you will never answer. That's what this argument (for it is not a debate, we are not exchanging views here) is all about, ILLEGAL vis-a vis LEGAL and you bring NOTHING new to this argument. The only reason you stick your petulant nose into it is because you can clearly see dumbo is beaten hands down. The problem you now have inherited is you have nothing zilch new to offer. YOU are now hoist with your own petard! You're a cardboard cut out an empty phoney not one word on illegally held terrorists weaponry. Like that other clown you seek to defend, you are just another terrorist apologist, indicted and condemned by your own words, well done.

• wizardofoz | Jan 09, 2013, 06:52 AM EST

  So what rattled your cage, macho. Was it the fact I decided to take the gloves and give auld mel a good spanking looks like your up for some of the same. I know this forum is full of IRA terrorist supporters t'was ever so. It was only a matter of time before you lot weigh in to defend your terrorist supporting crony. I knew my last reply hung him out to dry and would flush you out just so. "The truth is" you wouldn't know the 'truth' even it bit you on your ass. There is no 'DEBATE' you ignoramus. Instead of keeping his big mouth shut your hoary auld mate jumps into a conversation and starts throwing around aspersions and demanding that All good and descent law-abiding American citizens must be disarmed. I know he, like you, is an IRA supporter. One who makes the unsubstantiated claim the PIRA has handed in all illegal arms, disbanded and gone away. Poppycock! I know his tiny little feet is now well and truly ensconced in the smelly stuff. Like a cat with a mouse he is my plaything and I will demolish his argument bit by bit and proceeded to do so and that is why you are now involved. Oh, I know you will come back with a crap excuse as to why you are now participating but that is more lies. But I will deal with you a little later.

• wizardofoz | Jan 09, 2013, 06:47 AM EST

  "If seanomelb had said "nothing of any worth," the wiz wouldn't be calling him a pinocchio, a liar" Why ever not? He has nothing whatsoever to say, and that which he does, is lies! I.E. the PIRA have sundered all illegal 'arms' LIE prove it? I.E. The IRA have 'disbanded' (no longer exist ) prove it? Its all lies. Don't you butt in here with more lies. All I have to do is tell the truth and you lot are beat and finished. Don't you go thinking you can succeed were the auld sean failed cause if youse employ lies, I'm gona wipe the floor with you.

• seanomelb | Jan 08, 2013, 10:13 PM EST

  Smyrnian!! I notice you are selective in your condemnation of who is uncivil. It appears you only find those you disagree with as offensive and that makes your argument null and void. Where have I been offensive?? I merely pointed out the lads historical ignorance and he took offence and I retaliated in a nice way.

• Smyrnian | Jan 08, 2013, 07:54 PM EST

  Sean and Bobby - you guys really do talk a lot of rot. Of all the posters you guys are the most uncivil and offensive. That's apparently your forte.

• seanomelb | Jan 08, 2013, 06:38 PM EST

  The Wiz is a legend in his own lunchtime devoid of common sense,historical facts and if wit was sh#t he'd die of constipation.

• bobby | Jan 08, 2013, 10:35 AM EST

  Alex what a freak, him with a gun very scary.... http:youtube.com/watch?v=4uymMI_omik&feature=player_embedded

• eiriamach | Jan 08, 2013, 08:04 AM EST

  If seanomelb had said "nothing of any worth," the wiz wouldn't be calling him a pinocchio, a liar! The truth is, the wiz instantly twists any facts or reasoning that anyone sends in his direction into garbage to fuel his fury. 'Ain't no reasoning with that attitude; it's a brick wall! Gun control has certainly been used to suppress independence movements, in South Africa, in Ireland, in every nation that came out from under the imperialist yoke. But where is that risk in 21st century USA? And every uprising in the cause of freedom is simply "terrorism" to someone so blinded by ideology that he sees coercion and brute force by right-wing "patriots" as the only path to law and order. But the issue of gun control for public safety won't go away so easily, and the wiz has added only fanaticism to that debate.

• Smyrnian | Jan 08, 2013, 07:57 AM EST

  Now, lads, disagreement AND civility can exist together. Give it a try please.

• wizardofoz | Jan 08, 2013, 06:24 AM EST

  "As I said" YOU, have 'said' nothing of any worth, nothing at all....! Since you decided to stick your ever elongating (Pinocchio) nose into something that had absolutely nothing to do with you, I have been kicking your butt all over the shoppe and taking great pleasure in doing so. I guess its that time once more. You come on here, an ignorant pompous Irish git who 'Ran Away' to Australia when the going got tough in your neck of the woods, and belly ache about how, good decorous law-abiding American citizens should hand over their guns and their only means of self-defence against a perfidious government. All the while you defend bank and post office robbing criminals, racketeers, standover merchants, who blackmail businesses for protection money; and murdered those who did not pay up, drug pushers and pimps that is the calling card of your terrorist mates in the criminal syndicate known as the IRA, which to day, has a number of monikers the RIRA the CIRA all are cast from the same mould and you have not provided one scintilla, not one skerrick of condemnation of the same. You have at NO time demanded your band of robbers and criminals hand in their ILLEGAL weapons, but demand a law-abiding citizen of the United States of America should be held to a higher degree. hypocrite!!! And I will not allow you, or any one else, to forget it. You're putty in my hands hypocrite! Your inferior argument is like your diminishing intellect it drops to the nefarious with each attempt to defend it.

• seanomelb | Jan 07, 2013, 11:55 PM EST

  As I said before ignorance is your forte. I put my case and tear you self righteous facade apart and you loose it.Neither do I have to justify myself to your narrow thinking. I see you pass over my remarks on North,Reagan and the rest of the terrorist you so adore . I say again you are a child killing enabler. As for "Avowing you case" Your case is yours and yours alone and means nothing. Have another swig of Jack and pay homage to your teaparty troglodytes(like Hannity) or go purchase another gun it appears that's all you're good for.

• seanomelb | Jan 07, 2013, 10:03 PM EST

  You just keep on avowing my case against you. Why, whatever will your fans think when they see how comfortably and easy it is for me to take you apart and hand you your ass on a plate. Your ineffectual and decrepit attempts coupled with silly dilettante to whitewash terrorism shows you up as weak and mendacious. At no time have you ever made a pertinent point, you have always been on the back foot, always on the defensive. You embellish toxic slander as that is the only way you know how to debate but that wont work with me. An obnoxious fellow to begin with and the fatuous otiose argument you bring to the table allows all to see you in a transparent light. Never mind 'Washington' that is a nonsense argument and displays how bankrupt your counterargument truly is. You are full of hubris and beating your hairy chest all the while declaring good honest law-abiding Americans surrender legally held arms yet, to date, not one word about the illegal arms held by murdering criminals, terrorists and gangsters. You are, as I have shown, the greatest hypocrite on this forum. You slabber on about 'freedom fighters' when in fact you are nothing more than a terrorist shibboleth!

• seanomelb | Jan 07, 2013, 06:23 PM EST

  wizard!! Washington and anyone who took up arms against the King were branded terrorist. Nelson Mandela was branded a terrorist by Thatcher and Reagan. You live in a country which bred more terrortist(in uniform) and led by terrorist who ordered the blanket bombing of Nth Vietnam,Cambodia and laos. Your government supported more terrorist than anyone else other than the Russians. You allow terrorist like Ollie North to roam the streets when he is responsible for giving cash to the Mullahs in Iran for Guns to murder innocent women and children in Nicaragua. I've got you penned!! as the self righteous hypocrite you are. Your history of ireland is feeble. Now crawl back into your trailer with your bottle of jack and switch on Fox news.That's about the limit of your intelect.

• wizardofoz | Jan 07, 2013, 03:41 AM EST

  So, lets get this missive back on track Mr Buttinsky wants all decent law abiding Americans who have guns to surrender those arms. While at the same time he defends the terrorist gang the murderous IRA, who have murdered many children, he has not said a word about this mob of gangsters giving up their illegal weapons. No. Because he supports criminals having a stock of felonious arms with which they murder and maim innocent victims. The impudence and hypocrisy of the malefactor supporter and his sanctimonious dribble stands out like a cold sore on a thin lip. Gun control is not about 'Guns' its about 'Control' period. A hundred million well armed American patriots weakening up to the fact their country is not being run for the sole benefit of Americans and the same mob that has them embroiled in numerous wars in the mideast are the same ones who have robbed their pension funds and bankrupted their country. When that day arrives, and it will, the traitors will run like the rats they are. When in possession of the full facts as to who runs America, even blind Freddie can see that.

• wizardofoz | Jan 07, 2013, 03:26 AM EST

  Face it, your beat. "The PIRA handed in their guns and no longer exist." They handed in nothing! All they did was change names all those murderers loitering around west Belfast and the Bogside in Derry planting bombs and murdering police men and robbing banks are now masquerading as the RIRA same dog different day. Unlike you, I have NEVER glorified, supported or defended murdering terrorists of any stripe EVER. I wouldn't give two-bob to an auld orangeman for many of them are just like you, supporters of terrorists. Your post decrying me is full of calumnies shank lies and spin. But then that is you down to a tee I've got you copper nailed pal. YOU are a 100% terrorist supporter and you cannot deny it so you employ subterfuge(freedom fighters) in a desperate attempt to divert attention from that fact. All I need do is state the facts, tell the truth and you are an easy beat. Let me reiterate You are the personification of a true hypocrite and with every post you write you reinstate that fact.

• seanomelb | Jan 06, 2013, 05:38 PM EST

  The wizard fails to state that the PIRA freedom fighters handed in their arms to the international monitoring commission and that the PIRA freedom fighters no longer exist and your orange brethern failed to hand in one bullet. Stick to what you know wizard(and that could fit in a thimble).You're extreme right wing views makes you an enabler of the mass shooting of children. BTW more children are murdered in the U.S. mass shooting than were ever killed in Ireland. And to add to your thimble of knowledge over 90% of children murdered in the north were done so by the British army or their surrogate orange terrorists.You live in a backwater wizard with a backwater mentality.

• Mousemess | Jan 06, 2013, 09:36 AM EST

  Piers = Piaras in Irish language. Morgan---ainm Breatnach as Breatnais Welsh name from Welsh language Afach, Piaras O' Murchu i nGaeilge However, Piers Morgan in Irish.

• wizardofoz | Jan 06, 2013, 06:14 AM EST

  Smyrnian, I remember the old axiom "when a government fears the people you have justice when a people fear their government you have tyranny. There is only one party in America- the Republicart party. Two wing of the same bird. Two sides of the same coin. No difference. One robs your right pocket. The other robs your left pocket. You have a one party system in America no different from Communist and totalitarian police states. 98% of Americans are totally brain dead, clueless, and asleep at the wheel. It has been 12 years since the 9/11 hoax and the next one is going to be much, much worse. Gun control is going to be passed more and more along with ammunition control. More staged murders by patsies on psychiatric drugs. More and more rules and regulations to strangle the free market and lower your standard of living. More and more socialism and Big Government. More wars in the Mideast for the Greater Glory of Izrahell. The dollar will keep falling, while silver and gold will take off. After 235 years American will be just another Third World backwater like Britain. You guys need to take affirmative action and demand your government rule in the interest of Americans, to hell with the parasites that control your government.

• wizardofoz | Jan 06, 2013, 05:15 AM EST

  You whine on about the 'Bad Brits' and what they did/do to Ireland yet history shows when the Irish accumulated enough guns they got their freedom. It also records when the auld Unionists accrued a sizable number they too got their freedom. If I remember correctly, your murdering mob (PIRA) had plenty of guns, and still does, do we hear you calling for all their guns to be handed in? Don't forget the IRA murdered children too. Take away a people's right to bear arms and governments will enslave them. One of the greatest pacifists in history had this to say: "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446. Another man your murdering mates like to quote said this: "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party" - Mao Tse Tung. You know nothing! You're as thick as two short planks.

• wizardofoz | Jan 06, 2013, 04:17 AM EST

  "A pea brain" is that it? That's the limit of you vocabulary when attempting opprobrious scorn? I would be well within my rights, when addressing you, to infer tis you who is a 'pea brain' but I wouldn't want to insult genus Pisum. "Blood soaked tissues" you say? And what 'blood' would they be soaked in? Would that be the blood of the thousands of innocent victims in Northern Ireland? You know, the ones that were murdered by your terrorist mates, while you hid your slothful a#se safely away in the land down under? When you threw a handful of bucks into the auld cloth-cap to help finance your terrorist crooks and gangsters one and all. Did it ever occur in your evil little mind that those Dollars were soaked in the blood of innocent men, women and children? You are the personification of a true hypocrite!

• seanomelb | Jan 06, 2013, 01:09 AM EST

  I'm as cool as a cucumber smyrnian, another day another massacre in Colorado. It must give you a tingle in your pants. Would you like some blood soaked tissues to wipe your crocodile tears lad.

• Smyrnian | Jan 05, 2013, 07:41 AM EST

  Sean - you are an angry soul, are ill informed and badly need to go back on your meds. Anger management class would help too.

• seanomelb | Jan 05, 2013, 01:12 AM EST

  Wizard !! me boy you are off the planet when the U.S. is a pretentious 3rd. world country posing as a 1st. world country. Get your head out of your ass you narrow minded pea brain.

• Smyrnian | Jan 03, 2013, 10:10 AM EST

  Wizard - I read a lot of posts on this site (if only to see what the lefties are up to) and I must say your post is the best, truest and most articulate and thoughtful I have seen. Keep it up. We need you on this site! Thank you!

• wizardofoz | Jan 03, 2013, 06:43 AM EST

  The greatest piece of literal cognitive writing by any group of men in all history, is the United States Constitution, "We the People" no other document comes even close. It's construct and content is clear and aphoristic in manner and wisdom. Your founding fathers were men wise beyond reason and sculptured for you, north Americans, a affidavit the envy of the free world. To day, you are governed by treasonous crooks, thieves, murders, vipers and villains of every verity. They have beaten your 'Constitution' to a pulp! They have rape it and she lays bruised and sobbing on the filthy floor of your congress and senate, though, terrorized and abused, she is not yet dead, not while you have your 'Second Amendment' to defend her that is what they fear most...!They are coming for your guns, and if they get them, the United States of America, is finished, we all are, you are the last bastion against tyranny. The same cabal responsible for the slaughter of 60 million Christians in Soviet Russia, is calling the shots in your country to day. You know what the answer is when they come-a-knocking for your guns. My prayers are forever with you. God Bless.

• wizardofoz | Jan 03, 2013, 06:35 AM EST

  Firstly, I don't know if this post will get through, as most of my posts to this site never see the light of day. An honest opinion counts for naught at this wan-eyed forum. But this is important to me so I will try once more. Should this be the last you hear from me it is because I have once more been censured. PS. I wouldn't give Piers Moron the time of day.

• lamarycontrary | Jan 02, 2013, 01:56 PM EST

  Who is Piers Morgan? I read his report, I know there is a poll with so many signatures on it, the White House must consider it, requesting he be sent home. What is really more eye opening - there is another poll from his country men with more signatures on it stating we don't want him back. A man in no-mans land.

• jamieLM | Jan 02, 2013, 12:42 PM EST

  I'm one of many Americans who don't really care what Piers Morgan thinks about anything. He can express his opinions and I can choose to ignore them.

• Frosty38 | Jan 02, 2013, 09:27 AM EST

  Thats how I feel about the English one on FOX

• Smyrnian | Jan 01, 2013, 07:45 PM EST

  IrishAncestor - your ignorance is appalling. Very, very few US citizens can own an automatic weapon I.e . An assault weapon since 1934. You don't know what you are talking about.

• IrishAncestor | Jan 01, 2013, 06:56 PM EST

  Every fruit cake in USA has access to high power weapons. Why? Who needs assault rifles? Stop it now. For sporting purposes, nobody needs a machine gun.

• Smyrnian | Jan 01, 2013, 05:22 PM EST

  Sean - there is no such thing as a middle of the road fascist. Please take your meds. You are way out there again.

• Smyrnian | Jan 01, 2013, 04:39 PM EST

  Morgan the Moran needs to go home and bow to his Queen....

• seanomelb | Jan 01, 2013, 04:17 PM EST

  How ironic the "middle of the road fascists" on this site calling the rest of us lefties

• Smyrnian | Jan 01, 2013, 10:37 AM EST

  Maggie - well said!

• Smyrnian | Jan 01, 2013, 07:03 AM EST

  JudyStinger - Well said! Morgan is an arrogant and disrespectful poser, like many of the IC lefty people who post here. He bows to his Queen on his knees and forgets we have no monarch here; we taught them a thing or two back in the day about how we view monarchs :)

• seanomelb | Dec 31, 2012, 11:37 PM EST

  Ephraim- I wonder who has the direct line to God? Pat Robertson(maybe). The pope uses his own number "VAT69". Hope you have a prosperous new year. I do have the St. James version and the Catholic bible. The only prayer book i possess is the "Egyptian book of the dead" they have a prayer for everything,they even have a prayer for putting the cat out at night, MIOW.

• EphraimKibbey | Dec 31, 2012, 11:20 PM EST

  seanomelb - you may need to build a bigger book shelf. I hear that American Evangelicals ARE writing a new version of the Bible. It tells what God REALLY meant to say! I guess it was hard for Him/Her to find a good editor way back then for the first edition. I'm afraid this version is unlikely to meet with Mr. Morgan's approval either. I wonder if the Bible ever gets tired of being translated, rewritten and edited each century or so? After all it is a LIVING document like the U.S. Constitution isn't it?

• seanomelb | Dec 31, 2012, 08:02 PM EST

  JudyStinger believes in free speech only when she agrees with what you have to say. I have my bible on the bookshelf between the "Gilgamesh and greek mythology.

• JudyStinger | Dec 31, 2012, 01:19 PM EST

  As an American I believe in the right of free speech and "our" Constitution. No one condones the deaths of any innocent children. However, Mr. Morgan is arrogant and obnoxcious and lectures Americans about "what he thinks and how he thinks we should run 'our' country." He invites guests on his shows and then screams at them, calling them liars, when they don't agree with him. He even has the unmitigated gall to say the Bible should be rewritten - so now he thinks he's God. When his predecessor, Larry King, had the show he was respectful to his guests whether he agree with them or not. Mr. Morgan needs to get over himself. I am not a member of the NRA and I'm highly insulted that Mr. Morgan acts like he's so much better than Americans and can tell us how to run "our" own Country. That's why we all left England - to get away from tyranny. He needs a reality check - America is a Republic not a Monarchy. England can have him back - we've had enough of him.

• maryosullivan | Dec 31, 2012, 11:07 AM EST

  The only TV stations that speak truth to Americans is RT TV or Amy Goodman on Democracy Now [ I have to add regarding Amy Goodman, with exception to her coverage of Syria]

• EphraimKibbey | Dec 31, 2012, 01:22 AM EST

  More guns in schools mean more accidents waiting to happen IN ADDITION to all the looneys who will STILL be able to get their hands on what ever flavor of gun they want. Having been in College when three students were shot dead by Govenor Rhodes' Ohio National Guard (Armed Trained Soldiers) by "accident," having spent 35 years teaching in public high schools, having taught gun safety, having completed a concealed carry class and having owned, shot and cleaned a bunch of guns in my 63 years, I KNOW THIS IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN! NRA, you ONLY represent the gun manufacturers now!

• seanomelb | Dec 30, 2012, 05:35 PM EST

  pooe old wounded brain,he reminds me of Don Quixote.Guns kill children.

• bobby | Dec 30, 2012, 01:43 PM EST

  Well said eiriamach, i totally agree with you.

• bobby | Dec 30, 2012, 01:40 PM EST

  Any news on the immigrants in Ireland Woundedknee? Your laughed at. Idiot

• eiriamach | Dec 30, 2012, 01:37 PM EST

  It cannot be said too often that WoundedKnee does NOT represent anything at all American. He and his dwindling group of inbred "like-minded" desperately hang onto their "Irish" as a way of convincing themselves, in complete self-delusion, that they are somehow superior to other Americans. Ignore them, or call them what they are, but please don't mistake them for representative Americans of Irish descent.

• WoundedKnee | Dec 30, 2012, 01:30 PM EST

  Very lame riposte, Bogbby. I guess the famous Irish wit passed you by!

• bobby | Dec 30, 2012, 09:54 AM EST

  Woundedknee you sound like the person palmeiras said in her first comment. America needs less people like you. Any news on the immigrants in Ireland?

• WoundedKnee | Dec 30, 2012, 02:54 AM EST

  cgalliher, are you some kind of fascist? In this country we can't 'dissolve' organizations we don't like. Maybe you need to go elsewhere.

• jetsnoone | Dec 29, 2012, 10:15 PM EST

  Without illegal guns in the hands of the IRA the Catholics of Northeast Ireland would have been wiped out by the loyalists.

• ceceann | Dec 29, 2012, 07:57 PM EST

  The hippocrisy here is that the schools the President's daughters attend are guarded by armed security and not one student there has been murdered. So, why is Morgan so astounded!!!!

• ceceann | Dec 29, 2012, 07:47 PM EST

  It is very telling that there is a counter-petition being circulated in the UK with just as many signatures against deporting Morgan. Seems they do not want him back there.

• cgalliher | Dec 29, 2012, 07:16 PM EST

  It's pretty clear to me, living 20 Kilometers from Newton Ct., that we need to dissolve the NRA as rapidly as is humanly possible. However, they have brainwashed so many of us that there are literally millions of assault style weapons to take off the streets, so this will be generations. It's worth remembering that women threw themselves in the path of the gunman's bullets to protect the children, so those that own them have these people to thank for their freedom.

• seanomelb | Dec 29, 2012, 06:04 PM EST

  Smyrian lives in a forest but he can't see the trees.He needs another bottle of Jack.I wonder if his trailer is near a gunshop,I sure hope it's not near a school.

• seanomelb | Dec 29, 2012, 03:36 PM EST

  Smyrnian, you don't like what I said do you? Well it's no different to what most of the world thinks about you lot. If you get a passport (you know what a passport is?) and travel outside of the u.s.a, you will see what I mean. P.S. have you cut your 2 foot beard yet? Yee hah!

• bobby | Dec 29, 2012, 02:32 PM EST

  palmeiras, i think you hit a nerve, proved you right though. The truth does hurt.

• Smyrnian | Dec 29, 2012, 02:13 PM EST

  Palmieras - what lager lout English pub did you just crawl out of? Ignorant racist jerk.

• bobby | Dec 29, 2012, 01:28 PM EST

  @palmeiras - So True

• palmeiras | Dec 29, 2012, 12:38 PM EST

  What a bunch of hillbillies these pro gun lobby are. The world is laughing at you, don't you get it? Yanks are very quick to lecture the rest of the world but can't take the reverse. A real arrogant attitude. Now, shave your foot long beards, lose 100 lbs or more and stop drinking while you drive. Y'all heer dat now.

• dan Breen | Dec 29, 2012, 09:49 AM EST

  Go on your knees and bow to your queen morgan !

• Smyrnian | Dec 29, 2012, 07:40 AM EST

  Morgan's a lefty Brit loser who should go home and mind his own affairs.

• WoundedKnee | Dec 29, 2012, 01:56 AM EST

  Migrants should be seen and not heard. And migrants like Morgan shouldn't be seen either. Go back to England, Morgan.

• jetsnoone | Dec 29, 2012, 12:32 AM EST

  I'm sure there is plenty of security, armed, where Piers works....what a hypocrit.

• BlessedThistle | Dec 29, 2012, 12:32 AM EST

  The right to bare arms in the USA is tied to the revolutionary belief that gov't must always be held in check by the people directly with the force of arms. George Washington and other founding fathers wrote and believed it so.

• BlessedThistle | Dec 28, 2012, 11:37 PM EST

  Scott, given that Piers is british not american it is not treason and therefore not punishable! But note that as a human he has a right to free speech - surely more important than any right to weapons!

• scott1960 | Dec 28, 2012, 10:05 PM EST

  Piers Morgan has the right to say what he wants - but he also has the right to the consequences. Talk against the U.S. Constitution is treason and punishable. If he does not care for the U.S. Constitution, then the Constitution iteself gives the means to change it.

• Ron | Dec 28, 2012, 09:50 PM EST

  There is a very parochial type of 'little America' mentality about this attack on Morgan. It's obviously going to be supported by the NRA obsessives who'd only be too happy to see teachers, postmen and pizza delivery boys gunning down anyone who dares to look at them the wrong way. It's a dreadful condemnation of their much vaunted 'freedom of speech' that they'd call for the man's deportation, just because as a non-American he's speaking his mind. Dangerous country, indeed!

• eiriamach | Dec 28, 2012, 08:06 PM EST

  What a Hoot! The NRA wants to deport Morgan for hostility to the Second Amendment. This is the NRA's way of yanking Morgan's First Amendment rights. Anyone on American soil has the right to speak his or her mind, regardless of who does not like the words. They can't shut him up, so they try to deport him -- that's love of the US Constitution at work, turning NRA members into tyrants! The NRA can't persuade any reasonable person by the use of argument or reasoning with facts (of which they are incapable). They count on their guns to replace persuasion with the threat of force. That mentality threatens democracy. Wake up America! A less violent culture begins with nationwide gun registration, control over sales of guns, and confiscation of military-style weapons and stockpiled ammunition.

• Mairin67 | Dec 28, 2012, 08:02 PM EST

  Thank you Piers. It is healthy to get an outside perspective rather than the skewed perspective within the US. That is why I always try to watch international news stations in addition to American. And yes, the rest of the world thinks we are nuts...only we think we are great.

• irishpjk | Dec 28, 2012, 08:01 PM EST

  I forgot to mention I always disliked Mr. Morgan, the words I would use to describe him would not be allowed here.

• irishpjk | Dec 28, 2012, 07:57 PM EST

  wtf.I was reared in Ireland and back there the English did not want me to have a gun. I moved to America and now I have another Englishman telling me he does not want me to have a gun. I disagreed with them back there and I disagree with them over here. I will have my guns as long as I live if Mr. Morgan is bothered by that, good. I plan on having a couple more by the summer.

• Curitiba | Dec 28, 2012, 07:06 PM EST

  You will give up your arms-but not because the Federal Government is coming to take them off you. First, gun owners will be demonised in the media, then lots of films and TV programmes will be made featuring gun-owners as swivel-eyed crazies, then the education system will teach children that owning a gun is as unaaceptable as racism. This will take about 30 years, long enough for enthusiastic supporters of gun ownership to grow old and in many cases, pass away. They will be replaced by a new generation of young people who will be completely anti-gun. That's how it's going to happen. BTW, you can keep Piers Morgan, but don't worry we won't be charging you for the privilege, this one's on us. Don't thank us all at once though!

• bobby | Dec 28, 2012, 06:42 PM EST

  One word for you Redneck. Bush...or has your little brain forgotten already. Silly people.........

• Redneck56 | Dec 28, 2012, 06:30 PM EST

  Piers Morgan needs to be deported for advocating the subversion of the American constitution. Any of you Euro trash condemning our (Americans) right to "keep and bear arms" can bugger off. In the 200 years of the US existence not one time have we been taken over by mad men who set themselves up as a dictator. How many times has it happened in Europe? The author of this article (and Piers Morgan) is an idiot with no knowledge of what he's talking about when he makes statements like, "Morgan, reflecting the incredulity of non-Americans worldwide, has spoke out forthrightly and clearly on the madness of the lack of gun control laws in America." There are plenty of laws on the books dealing with gun controls....they just don't enforce them, which in my opinion is a big part of the problem! To those of you who want to totally disarm the people of the US....and I dare say I'm NOT alone in this thinking....I will NEVER give up my right to keep and bear arms. I will, by what ever means necessary, defend that right...just as I will defend to the death your right to spew your anti-gun hatred. But Piers? He's NOT American and has no say. He's a guest in this country and he's worn out his welcome!!!

• bobby | Dec 28, 2012, 06:18 PM EST

  It's very scary the way some people think, and these very same people may have a gun or 10. Your right seanomelb they are crazy mixed up people. They should leave the guns to the men and women that serve in the army. The ones that do a very good job for their country. And are there to protect its citizens. hooligan6a, Even your name says it all, you with a gun sounds crazy.

• brian22 | Dec 28, 2012, 05:46 PM EST

  Piers Morgan is totally correct...and the rest of the world is incredulous of American attitude to assault weapons in particular and guns generally. The clock is ticking to the next mass killings, so when it happens America please do not bore us with your collective wailing about how unfair it is, unfortunately you are very slow learners!

• seanomelb | Dec 28, 2012, 05:40 PM EST

  The siege mentality of some Americans is the problem bobby. When they look down the barrels of their guns through the foresight, (Which is the only foresight they possess) there's a human being there for the asking.What morbid crazy mixed up people they are.

• bobby | Dec 28, 2012, 05:13 PM EST

  What the FuKK have you got the military for you idiot. Just shows how thick some of you people are. Your not at war with your fellow countrymen are you? Or at least you should not be. Idiots

• hooligan6a | Dec 28, 2012, 05:02 PM EST

  bobby, That's the point, we are prepared for a war with another country, you are not. If Germany had a 2nd amendment in 1939 the Nazi's would have paid a very high price in rounding up 6 million ARMED jews. You grow up.

• hooligan6a | Dec 28, 2012, 04:59 PM EST

  Sean, it's good that we can agree on some things - and we agree on this madness. Back in the 1970s one of the most popular sitcoms on American tv was "All in the Family." The patriarch of the Bunker family was Archie, an old-fashioned, meat and potatoes, everyman kind of bloke. In the real world of the mid 1970s armed airplane hijackings were the international scourge. In one episode Archie was asked for his opinion on what he thought should be done. He answered dead serious, "Arm all the passengers." America laughed at the absurdity of Archie's solution. Not so absurd anymore. Insane yes but not absurd.

• Stiofain | Dec 28, 2012, 04:33 PM EST

  And to hell with the first amendment!What a pack of idiots. Your GOP will make damn sure oligarchs will rule. They are already hard at work removing your voting rights, and you keep quite about it, and scream about the Second Amendment.You can keep your rifles and hand guns,just no assault rifles or huge clips,you can still kill people with your semi-auto deer rifle. Maybe the slug won't kill them, just cripple them!Smyrnian, there you go again.

• seanomelb | Dec 28, 2012, 04:31 PM EST

  The NRA should be deported for their first amendment attack on Morgan.The first world knows that less guns mean less deaths.Maybe America will join the first world someday,at the moment the U.S. has a third world attitude toward firearms and child killers like LaPierre roam free.

• bobby | Dec 28, 2012, 04:17 PM EST

  @Smyrnian, you lot go on about this freedom crap, what freedom is this you are talking about? Owning a gun??? If one of your family members got slaughtered by a gun. What will you think then? If your 6 year old was killed at school how would you feel? Your sick. Living in a feared broken society. Cannot be healthy for your little brain. Are we surprised so many people in the states are screwed up. No.....

• palmeiras | Dec 28, 2012, 03:55 PM EST

  It's amazing the ignorance of the pro gun lobby people on this site; Right wing republicans most of them, though not all. Get a couple of things straight : Piers Morgan is british, not Irish. Morgan is a Welsh name and Wales is part of britain; got that all you illiterate tea partyers? Next, why would/should anybody want or need 7 guns (average # of guns in gun owners homes), and don't tell me they are all collectors. Anyway gun collecting is just a guise for paranoid people who get a macho kick out of their 7 oor so guns. Short and sweet of the story :

• Smyrnian | Dec 28, 2012, 03:50 PM EST

  Morgan needs to go back to the socialist no freedoms UK and mind his own business. We all know what that country did to take arms away fr citizens of other countries and what they did to them next. It's all in the history books.

• bobby | Dec 28, 2012, 03:23 PM EST

  @Paul Hogan, your Constitution needs hacking into. You say "The only thing that we have left to guarantee our security is the Second Amendment, We need our guns. How sick that sounds, it says alot about your society and how broken it is. I bet Pierce pays alot more Tax in the States than you do.... @hooligan6a war against another country for occupation or terrorism is a big difference to war against your neighbour of fellow citizens. Grow up.

• hooligan6a | Dec 28, 2012, 03:05 PM EST

  If it wasn't for armed citizens, the Irish would still be part of the United Kingdom.

• hooligan6a | Dec 28, 2012, 02:59 PM EST

  Civilians in the U.S. own about 300 million firearms. It is possible, even probable that American gun owners own more guns than all of the world's military forces and law enforcement agencies combined. I read this morning that the Russian manufacturer of the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world, the AK47, sells more AKs in the U.S. than it does to the entire Russian military and Russian law enforcement - combined. Yet, Wayne LaPierre, head of the NRA, and fellow travelers insist that to be safer we need more guns. Sadly, I also saw this morning that a recent poll indicated that 64% of Americans are in favor or arming our school teachers. This is insanity defined.

• porkheaven | Dec 28, 2012, 02:50 PM EST

  He needs to go.

• jerrydonovan | Dec 28, 2012, 02:26 PM EST

  Ihave yet to see one reasonable arguement to support the gun lobby position. Is the constitution/bill of rights living documents?If yes then it can be modified.While a document of its times surely the founding fathers did not intend for it to be froze in time.The second amendment does not give an unrestricted right to bear arms.Even SCALIA HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT!What type of weapons were available to citizens at the time this was written?You cannot say that on the one hand guns can evolve but on the other the constitution/bill of rights cannot!Reasonable people can reach accomodations,unfortunately the N.R.A. never takes a reasonable position .One final thinf ,does the name "big tobacco" ring a bell.

• Paul Hogan | Dec 28, 2012, 01:44 PM EST

  Pierce Morgan should be deported back to England where he can continue hacking into the phones instead of hacking into our Constitution. The only thing that we have left to guarantee our security is the Second Amendment, so deport Morgan right away. We need our guns.

• italiangirl | Dec 28, 2012, 12:36 PM EST

  Americans never want to hear the truth. Unfortunately, Americans want everything sugar -coated for them or want to turn their heads away from an issue until it bites them in the butt, then they complain.Then, they want action.Why not fix the problem the first time it arises. I believe in gun control and I am not afraid of the NRA nor anyone else who wants to back them. By the way, I do have guns,locked away safe and sound in a lockbox that only I have the code to get into it.

• cshook123 | Dec 28, 2012, 12:28 PM EST

  I'am not a gun owner and I don't like guns in the house. So we don't have any. However the people that I see causing gun deaths are criminals. So disarming the public means leaving them defenseless. Also this is a second amendment in our Constitution. Its to protect the public from the government. Assault weapons were banned for awhile...but the criminals got them.

• irishamerica46 | Dec 28, 2012, 12:26 PM EST

  Just saw a video from GMA and it showed a man putting a gun to another man's head.The victim had complained about the other guy's bumper sticker so lo and behold a gun comes out. What has happened to the country I grew up in?? People use to respect and look out for one another. It's mind boggling!!!

• 2ndrepubalik | Dec 28, 2012, 12:23 PM EST

  They say you never truly see yourself as othrs see you and in this respect America ( USA) is totally out of line with the rest of the world on the issue of Gun control.Make no mistake - the weapons used were specifically designed to kill PEOPLE not animals or birds.This pattern will continue , Connecticut is only the latest tragedy , there will be others and soon ! How many people have to die before some form of Gun Control is put in place.The American Armanents Industry is behind the NRA and the objective , as always , is to continue to sell more guns and ammunition on an ongoing basis.Most of the American and Non American atrocities in a civilian environment have been committed with legally held firearms but the people who held them were obsessive or deranged in some way.There needs to be , at the very least , some assessment of the suitability to hold lethal weapons ! America - the frontier vanished over 150 years ago in case you are not aware.There are no more Cowboys and Injuns - time to move on and change your Constitution !

• plynchhayes | Dec 28, 2012, 11:49 AM EST

  As "Deep Throat" said, back in the Nixon era, "Follow the money." Which, of course, is what it's all about, when you drill down to the essence of the madness. There are plenty of non-critical thinkers who will take very forthright positions about their Second Amendment rights, but the main fuel to this fire is, once again, profits. So sad......

• patrickesq | Dec 28, 2012, 11:47 AM EST

  Piers Morgan should be knighted for his courage to speak the truth about the extreme need for more stringent gun control. Contrary to the rantings of the gun fanatics this idea is not an attack on the 2nd amendment, nor is it a left or right wing partisan issue. It is a matter of common sense and the right of all Americans to be protected from deadly assault weapons.

• Searlit | Dec 28, 2012, 11:30 AM EST

  Even in the days of the Wild West, the bartenders (probably Irish) made the gunslingers remove their holsters before they came into the Saloon. Then all the outlaws had to be rounded up and shot or sent to the gallows. Must we repeat history? Nobody out there needs an assault weapon but the military. Put an end to the sales of these guns at gun shows where anyone can get hold of a dangerous weapon without background checks. It feels like my country is destroying itself.

• Searlit | Dec 28, 2012, 11:28 AM EST

  atherts, what on earth are you babbling about? "Now we know that a rifle was not used..." Lanza used a high powered, high velocity, AR15 Bushmaster, semi-automatic, assault-type RIFLE, using high capacity magazines. This close cousin to the military M16 assault rifle was never intended for hunting deer or birds - it is utterly unsuitable for this purpose for reaons so apparent that even you might grasp. However, it is highly suitable for killing large numbers of people, or children, at close range very quickly. That is its appeal for deranged killers like Lanza. Its appeal for law-abiding NRA members is its military, bad-ass, macho appearance. Lastly, as any gunsmith will tell you, it doesn't take much to convert this semi-automatic weapon into a fully automatic one. For you, think light deadly machinegun.

• DrMcHugh | Dec 28, 2012, 11:00 AM EST

  Congratulations to Piers Morgan of CNN for having the courage to speak against the gun lobby, and for common sense. The gun lobby and the NRA are invested in selling guns and in promoting fear. The NRA are not interested in protecting human lives. They just want to make more money by selling guns. Easy accessibility of guns and violent video games and violent movies are creating a very dangerous society in the USA. There is no place for guns in a civilized society. Thankyou to Piers Morgan for your passion about gun control. It is time that Americans look to Australia and other countries, which are safer because of much better gun control laws. Sincerely, Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh, Chicago, Illinois

• bobby | Dec 28, 2012, 11:00 AM EST

  Since the Newtown Massacre over 220 gun murders in the U.S

• Seanmor | Dec 28, 2012, 10:43 AM EST

  Obviously there is much need for some forms of gun control in the nation. However, existing laws permit much closer control of our Souther border, where there is a continuos flow of U.S. guns into the hands of criminals. Even the U.S. govenment knowingly supplid Mexican drug gangs with about 2,000 high powered rifles. The anti-gun lobby doesn't seem to have any objections to arming Mexicn criminals, but they vigerously campaign to disarm responsible, law-abiding U.S. citizens and deprive them of their Constitutional rights.

• CavanAncestor | Dec 28, 2012, 10:40 AM EST

  As usual, Irish Central features a non-Irish issue and without fail comes down on the Left side of it. Why is it that most self important glitterati, perhaps like Morgan, hire armed security and send their children to private schools (a la Rosie O'Donnell another hypocrite). Licensed gun owners rarely if ever commit crimes. They most often interdict them. The evil intentioned will obtain weapons. This is a time for clarity, not radical, emotional responses and it's a far broader position than just the licit ownership of firearms. Shallow people like Morgan are only capitalizing on tragedy.

• tdkerst | Dec 28, 2012, 10:31 AM EST

  Isn't it curious that the right are so selective when it comes to crying that the Constitution protects their right to bear arms. Even as an alien, Piers Morgan's right to criticize what he and many American citizens see as a distortion of the second amendment is protected by the first amendment. They are quick to demand freedom of speech when views agree with theirs.

• 71regiment | Dec 28, 2012, 10:17 AM EST

  This guy Morgan should be banned from the USA, the way the UK has banned Micheal Savage. Guns do protect peoples lives, enforce the gun laws already on the books. If the guy who murdered the firemen in Webster NY, had receieved capital punishment years ago for muredering his grandmother with a hammer, the firemen would be alive today. The shooter in CT and his mother where not members of the NRA, they were outside the pale. Almost all NRA members are law abidding citizens. All the big shots in government have armed guards, why not schools?

• NYCFiredog | Dec 28, 2012, 09:58 AM EST

  He's an arrogant ass. His own people don't want him. But there's no law against being an ass. It is irritating for an outsider to speak against our US Constitution though. You can bet he's well protected.

• Nicoletta | Dec 28, 2012, 09:55 AM EST

  Good for Piers Morgan. I think he may be part Irish, but on this issue, he is wholly correct but as usual in the so-called "land of the free" the reality is everything has a price tag - including human life.

• atherts | Dec 28, 2012, 09:54 AM EST

  Everyone is free to say stupid things. His 1st amendment rights are protected by the 2nd. Now that we know a rifle was not used, I wonder if he'll apologize for rushing to a conclusion on that, and capitalizing on a tragedy? Probably not.

• Phaenius | Dec 28, 2012, 09:20 AM EST

  Tell me that Piers Morgan is not Irish. If Piers Morgan is telling the truth then Pilot is vindicated when he said, "what is truth." I like being Irish, but what is this about what I had hoped to be a good opportunity website in bringing together what is good about the Irish and Ireland, only to find it gathering together every mucking, puking, stinking, sticking, and stagnating human failing attribute and making it Irish? When will the madness stop? When every evil man is dead. Until then, good men must find a means to protect himself and his own, that being his innocent neighbor as well as himself. The evil man will try to disarm the rightreous innocent citizen. That is simple.

• bunchesofun | Dec 28, 2012, 08:48 AM EST

  Libs think gun control will solve the problem, just like they think that more and more graphic sex education will stop teen pregnancy and disease. It hasn't worked for the teens and it won't work with gun control. The bad guys will ALWAYS find a way to get a gun despite controls. Drugs are "illegal" but the dopers always find someone to sell to them. It just doesn't work!

• Frosty38 | Dec 28, 2012, 08:45 AM EST

  What is wrong with this group? I agree with him. Both my sons carry with a license. But are they retested. Things change over the years.

• bunkerisland | Dec 28, 2012, 08:37 AM EST

  You won't be shutting up this fellow with petitions in a country where freedom of speech is as important as "the right to bear arms".

• bunkerisland | Dec 28, 2012, 08:29 AM EST

  Morgan also called Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, to his face "...an unbelievably stupid man," with which I agree completely. Pratt has said on tv that having guns to protect our homes and while we're out and about is not what the Second Amendment is about at all. The Second Amendment, said Pratt, is all about we the people protecting ourselves from our government and its agents. Yes, said super patriot Pratt, we need all manner of weapons to defend ourselves against our democratically elected government and our volunteer military and law enforcement. And this nutcase believes that he is an all American hero!