I thought we ran those pasty faced brits off a couple of centuries ago.
Go eat your porridge Piers..

Pro Illegal Immigration Advocates are ´Unbelievable Stupid,´ ´Dangerous´: ´They Shame Their Country.´

Since illegals kill 3500 Americans each year by driving drunk. And, they kill another 3,000 to 4,000 each year in flat out homicides.

The big difference between Americans and those of Piers Morgan, we are a reasonbly free people, they are now and have always been "subjects". Never personally watch CNN and for this very reason.

Agreed, Morgan is a pompous jackass and a man of shallow morality. Nevertheless Pratt´s selt-defense argument is beyond stupid. Why is it not as self-evident as
2+2=4; that weaponry designed solely for military use should never be avaiable to the civilian population?????????????

#4 I suggest you educate yourself about the meaning behind our 2nd amendment rights, and why weaponry designed solely for military purposes is essential for citizens to keep and bear, and must remain readily available to the citizens of the USA.

More people will read this tread today than will see his show this month.

This fop seems to be positioning himself as the new poster boy of the American mullet...

Geez #4, really? Muskets were designed solely for military use. The 03´ Springfield, Enfield rifle, M1 Garand, and yes the AR-15 were all designed for military use. Oh, so was the Jeep.

Read a bit of firearm history, almost all firearms derive some sort of design, function, or asthetics from the military.

A AR-15, (5.56 or .223) platform is demonized by a rabid media and anti-gun agenda because of how it looks. If I had to pick a rifle to survive with, it def wouldn´t be that. Probably a lever action 30/30, or perhaps a carbine in 45/70.

another reason why I dont watch CNN..

Morgan, your country is on the trash heap because of people like you. Leave ours alone! You are the "unbelievably stupid" one. You are the poster child of ignorance.

why doesnt piers morgan ask the people who were saved from being shot in Texas by an off duty concealed carry policeWOMEN....she heard the gun shots and shot the person with the gun...but thats the "rest of the story" that no one will hear about. I believe this happend within the last few days..so the info is still out there...all piers has to do is look it up.

This is the only way he can get ratings for his show on cnn....

#5. W/respect to the 2nd Amendment, it is 221 years old; ratified when rapid fire amounted to 3 shots per minute of rifle fire accurate up to 50 meters by trained infantry. Suggest you acquaint yourself w/the reality that modern weaponry is much more efficient. Most importantly, virtually the entire colonial population were hunters of necessity. The obtuse gun fanatics will be the death of the 2nd Amendment.

#5. W/respect to the 2nd Amendment, it is 221 years old; ratified when rapid fire amounted to 3 shots per minute of rifle fire accurate up to 50 meters by trained infantry. Suggest you acquaint yourself w/the reality that modern weaponry is much more efficient. Most importantly, virtually the entire colonial population were hunters of necessity. The obtuse gun fanatics will be the death of the 2nd Amendment.

#4, You sound like piers. EVERYONE, has to like what you like and ALL OTHERS have to kiss up, give up their rights as an American just so you can say you are better. A lot of hunters use AR-15s because they can afford them and they are accurate. Not all hunters or people interested in their own lives can afford a two or three thousand rifle or hand gun.

Ah, the old "well the 2nd Amendment is sooo old" arguement. Ok, lets update it, but then where do you stop? Say, lets update the 1st too! And all those other pesky, dusty old words are hard to understand, let alone apply to todays modern life. States rights? Pshhh, we are a global community now, delete it, and on and on.

Polyanna, meet slippery slope.

There is a big difference between Brits and Yanks. I believe there was a war fought over that difference quite a few years back.

History rhymes.

Post 13 and 14, you can say that again. /sar

#4/14, you really do need to educate yourself about the purpose of the 2nd amendment. It is a last resort to protect the People from a tyrannical and abusive government. What you propose is to virtually hogtie the populace and place them into an immediate inferior role in the event of any confrontation with said tyrannical government. Personally, I think that I should be able to acquire any weapon available to the military. After all, we paid for all their toys anyway.

Pratt was completely unprepared for this dispicable man and CNN. No one should go on these shows who isn´t prepared to defend the original intent of the Framers. We need our guns to defend ourselves from tyranny and tyrants- read that DEMOCRATS! "When in the course of human events....!"

I postulated the SCOTUS decision in favor of gun ownership for personal protection to a raging liberal I know and her response was, "Well the SCOTUS is made up of a bunch of radical right-wingers."

"Yeah, like Jefferson, Washington, FRanklin and thousands who fought to throw off the chains of Britain and establish our Constitution? Now, give me some facts to support your view that guns in the hands of responsible citizens increases gun violence. Show me the stats that the ban on "assault weapons" reduced crime by, uh... How much?"

Waiting, waiting, waiting!!!

Common answers to facts: "That´s a lie." "Where´d you get those facts?" "That´s what a bunch of radical gun nuts always say."

Still waiting!

It is ironic, but it never fails: the malice and moral vanity of Leftists propels them a giant step in the direction of the violence they profess to abhor. Leftists hate their political opponents with a virulence that is not easily matched by most conservatives. This is because Leftists think they know everything, that they are never wrong, that they are totally disinterested and that their only goal is the betterment of humanity. This is a potentially lethal combination, as we have seen in nations where extreme Leftists, Communists, etc. acquire absolute power. They invariably use such power to suppress, silence, imprison and, all too often, murder their political opponents.

When one believes oneself to be on the side of the angels, when he mistakes his personal beliefs for incontrovertible, sacred and necessary Truth, the category of political disagreement is abolished and replaced by those of evil, stupidity, or insanity.

Dogmatic Leftism is definitely on the rise. It is one thing to hold strong beliefs and to argue passionately for them; it is quite another to insist that no other opinion could possibly be valid or ethical. The tragic thing is that it is our intelligentsia who have succumbed to their partisan hatreds to the extent that their reason have gone to sleep and become merely a tool for exerting power over others. This has happened before. It is a bad sign when the intellectual class, the academics and the guardians of critical reason and history become submerged in their ideology.

The news anchor´s verbally abusing someone whose only offense is to disagree with him about gun control is a reflection of the increasing dogmatism and malice of the Left.

Piers and Soledad, time sharing a brain.

Each with half the IQ needed for critical thinking skills.

The fool on here commenting on how I, and my fellow citizens, shouldn´t have access to military-quality weapons should understand the true purpose of the 2nd Amendent. It has very little, to nothing to do with hunting or sport shooting, and everything to do with keeping a tyrannical government in check (with an ancillary benefit of self-defense). I would suggest that if you find AR type weaponry so scary, just don´t look at them.

Because we (those living in the colonies) had firearms and knew how to use them, we kicked the collective behind of the British in the 18th century. Yes Piers Morgan, we kicked your ancestors´ rear end. So we are not surrendering our guns, and we will not be like your pitiful self. You English serf!

Piers is Irish, not English (though you wouldn´t know from the accent) and the 2nd amendment was made so that the citizens could have access to the same weapons the government had. Just because the Constitution was made during the time of muskets doesn´t mean the need still isn´t there, after all, the government no longer uses muskets now do they?

I like the twisted logic of the ignorant that has to defend that ´..well regulated militia...´ does not intend for military style weapons. You don´t like the 2nd amendment then petition to change it. Otherwise, don´t be an intellectual doofus.

By poster #4/14´s "logic", the First Ammendment should not apply to the telephone, movies, radio, television, the internet, or any modern communication technologies. After all such technologies were never dreamed of when the Constitution was written and the have vastly increased our capacity to communicate versus the technologies of the 1780´s, Far more so than the capabilities of modern guns have improved relative to those of the same era.

The talk never changes. We denizens of Lucianne offer logic ,reason and (usually ) civil discourse which goes ignored. The other side pounds their manicured fists and shout slogans borrowed from Hitler and Stalin. I ´ve thought it through and I can´t help but think this is going to end in one of two ways badly or really badly i.e. either a civil divorce or a Civil War. I don´t have much faith in the first option happening (sigh).

Predictibly, abuse is the first and last retort of the vincibly ignorant. As I said, the gun nuts will be the death of the 2nd Amendment. Hey let´s allow the populace to purchase mortars, missles, tanks etc. That´ll surely make us feel safer knowing that Harry down the street has an arsenal.

Wasn´t he a ´personal valet´ before he came over here. Piers!

Citizens´ guns need to keep pace with the technology. Do you think only the government should have guns? How stupid.

#31 you do know that civilians can purchase tanks, rpgs, machine guns, etc right now don´t you?

#4/14... so by your argument, the entirety of the Constitution, since it is an old document, has somehow been made obsolete by age and needs to be updated for the "modern world." You do realize THAT is exactly what you are saying, don´t you? Let us see how that works on all the other amendments as well, shall we? Your kind of shortsighted thinking is the same as that of the "living document" people that would happily rob us of every right we have been guarantee by our old Constitution in the name of progress and modern thinking. It is not an idea that has any place in an honest discussion amongst free people. Stop reasoning with your emotions and start reasoning with the brain the Founder´s intended you to use as an American.

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." -- George Washington

I´m trying to find how our 1st Predident would have made a distinction between a Kenucky Long Rifle and a mini-14 based on the above comment.

#31, we can get all those goodies and yes I do feel safer knowing my neighbors are as well armed as I am.

#31... you complain about abuse at our hands while YOU call us "ignorant," "gun fanatics," and "gun nuts." That is rich.

Unbelievably stupid is ignoring the factual data that has been out there long before this tragic failure of the US mental health system. How willful does someone like the smug simpleton, Morgan, have to be in order to avoid looking at areas with shall issue laws vs Chicago or NYC? Dangerous is a pontificating dope who pretends that the gun policies of Vermont don´t exist next to NY. How dumb does a person have to be in order to not comprehend the differences and the causes of murder in a state where you need an exhaustive months long, judge approved, check vs a state where none of that is applied? The answer is, as dumb as the punk Morgan. On the other hand if you dance with this snake, you should be ready to dance.

In the Brain-Dead Post(s) of the Day competition, it appears that we have a winner.

Button your lip, Morgan - or we won´t send any guns to Britain when your back is against the wall, like we did in WWII.

too funny. cnn does not have a clue why their ratings are in the tank...........stupid is as stupid does...

#27-you slander my ancestors, sir!

from Wiki:´´Piers Morgan was born on 30 March 1965, in Guildford, Surrey, England, to Eamon Vincent O´Meara, a dentist, of Dorking, Surrey,´´

You´re confusing us with people who care what you think. Go back to where you came from.

LOL, #42. A dad from ´Dorking.´ NOW I understand Morgan´s problem.

Why do they allow an Englishman to appear on USA television to tell US citizens how the USA should operate. I thought the Continental Army fought a revolutionary war, and the US Armed Forces fought a second war against England about 30 years later to keep that from happening?

#42 Piers himself said he was Irish on his show. I didn´t mean any slander against the Irish, we all have our village idiots!

Here it is from Piers himself. He´s still a moron though, regardless of his ancestry.

http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Piers-Morgan-proud-to-be-Irish-99192524.html

Piers Morgan is a prissy little twit.

#34. Listen up Hen. If you had read my intial post rather than reacted viscerally to it, you might have grasped that my time line was to give historical context to the Amendment, not to malign it as out of date. So spare me your sanctimony. No doubt we´ll soon be told that the 2nd Amendment is actually the 2nd Commandment and God´s Will. All the zealots are doing is marginalizing themselves and setting themselves up for a defeat w/their absurdities. So be it.

Piers (Ripe ´S´) Morgan, with the nassty odor of one of those Brits.

Go home, Piers.

#46-Sorry, I should use the s/ more often.
My Parents were from Ireland(CoMayo & Co Claire). I was born in the US and am an American.I am a Citizen with rights.
Prigg Morgan was born in Britain. He is a Subject with priviledges.
No wonder he is confused.

Shame my country does he ? Well you Piers are an embarassment to yours as well. Feel free to transport your metrosexual candy-arse back to the land of bad health care & rotten teeth anytime you are so inclined.

Girley-man wuss....

Stick a sock in it, Piers!

#- 31
Tom, Dick AND Harry already have arsenals. That´s one reason this country has never been attacked by ground forces.

Warms the cockles of my heart.

#49... then what amount of abdication of freedom will soothe your conscience? What amount of compromise and reaching across the aisle and capitulation to the emotion ridden, illogical left will make you comfy? I, for one, am curious to see how far you and Morgan and others like you think we should kowtow, bow, grovel, and scrape the ground before Obama to be able to exercise our rights.

No compromise we make, no freedom we willingly hand over, no capitulation in spite of facts that support our side, no amount of grovelling and kissing of their feet will ever satisfy the leftist ideologues. They will not rest until all guns are taken and all freedom suspended in favor of the "will of the people." Why should we make this task easier for them? Why should we hand over ground to them without a fight? To win brownie points with the very forces that seek our destruction?


The stark and blinding reality to all who have eyes to see is these leftist ideologues whose self appointed righteousness never sleeps wish to strip us of our 2nd Amendment rights thus freeing them to strip us of all our other rights. It is the way of dictators, emperors, and thugs throughout history. Failure to recognize this immutable fact is a shortcoming indeed.

As it is, I have said my peace.

The commie Alinskyites are using ridicule in massive doses again...

Whuddaya say, we simply deport the mindless twit, Morgan?

I´m pretty sick of gun haters and clueless hunters crying about ´military´ weapons. At the distances involved, a pump shotgun is much more deadly. First, it won´t jam. Second, it sends out nine 00 buck shot per trigger pull. Each shot is almost double the size of the .223 from a civilian AR. ALL the ´common sense´ talking points are about CONTROL. This debate stopped being about weapons when they made full auto machine guns a special class along with sawed off shotguns. If ONE self appointed ´expert´ could tell you the difference between a ´trench´ shotgun and sawed off shotgun, I´d be amazed. If guns are the problem, ban them all and expect the failure of Chicago to spread nation wide. If you really think you are on to something with the ´assault´ gun ban, explain why shall carry laws DECREASE crime and why Chicago is a murder capital. The gun control nuts can´t refute any of it, but they double down every time. They must not know any single women or urban students or people who dare to criticize unions.

Incrementalism is central to the democrat game plan for their ultimate dream to disarm America. Any conservative who cites legitimate concerns about incremental confiscation of rights is dismissed with cliches, such as, "oh that´s a slippery slope arguement. No one favors any threat to the Americans right to own firearms." An "assault" weapons ban is just "common sense." When the next nut sneaks 4 semi auto sidearms with 7 capacity magazines into a school or theater and commits mass murder, liberal democrats like john lewis, schumer and carolyn mccarthy (sp?) will say "why do we need weapons with such large magazines" and seek further restrictions. Shotguns with large magazines are also on the list. After all, large magazines are not needed for hunting, right? Let´s make people show identification when they buy ammunition in the name of tracking potential threats. That doesn´t impose on Second Amendment rights, right? Ban lead ammunition in the name of environmentalism. Place heavy taxes on ammunition to be used to fund schools. Who can argue against funding for the children?

Liberal democrats won´t ever stop. They like terrorist are patient and relentless. Democrats are predictable. They shouldn´t be so predictable.

My Dad , in his day, would have called this fop a weak sister!!!