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CNN host Piers Morgan continued his anti-gun rhetoric Sunday, tweeting: “The only civilians who ‘need’ an AR-15 assault rifle are those who want to commit mass murder. That’s what they do. #killingmachines.”
The British citizen has been outspoken in his support for stronger gun control measures in the United States, particularly in the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook last month.
A little over a week ago, the White House was forced to respond to a petition signed by more than 100,000 people seeking to deport the television host over his views. “Keep the First [Amendment]” in mind when defending the second, they suggested.
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Earlier in the day, Morgan sent out these related messages:
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Morgan’s tweets have not gone unnoticed, being picked up by conservative blogs across the Internet.
Here are a few responses from Twitter, many aggregated by Twitchy:
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Metallicat
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:39amI’d like to have one so if the SHTF and the zombie mobs flee the projects to loot the burbs,I have a fighting chance to defend my life. Against rioting mobs my pump shotgun is just too close for comfort and limited by ammo capacity to guarantee that. The zombie mobs from the projects flock to the burbs every halloween to loot candy,and thats exactly where theyll go to loot when the SHTF and the stores are picked clean,looking for defenseless homes,or those with something to protect that they can take.
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:30amI’m going to the gun show next month and buy another AR-15.
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Vilgax
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:26amWell then Piers, do you realize you are addressing close to 4 million mass murderers? Better be careful and head back to jolly old England then. What a dope!
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Metallicat
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:53amI’m sorry, I am innocent and have never committed murder. You want to convict millions of innocent people for the murders committed by a few.
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Metallicat
Jan. 21, 2013 at 6:08amsorry if I misunderstood your meaning,which now rereading,I think I may have.
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Shadowangel
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:18amIf he gets his way indeed only criminals/mass murderers will own AR-15 rifles. Idiot.
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critterbait
Jan. 21, 2013 at 4:57amTheres no place like home,theres no place like home ..If he says it enought maybe he’ll go to the land of OZ…A broken record.Or is this the Price Is Right ,,,Or maybe a trained Seal Act ..
I dont know about ya’ll state but our gun stores and gun shows was hoppin this weekend some shutting down,they ran out of guns to sell..
Oh and the Capitol Building seemed to have alot of people out front too…
I thought they was having a blue light sale ha ha ha…
Morgan reminds me of a set of lips with feet ha ha ha ,,,All Mouth that needs a FAT LIP and a BLACK EYE … …
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Mike76
Jan. 21, 2013 at 4:54amI’ve been an owner of evil, black, “military” style “assault” weapons for more than 15 years. I own several. I have killed zero people. How do you explain that, Piers?
Why do I need them? Because once, long ago, the men who were vested with protecting the citizens of this land turned their muskets against those they were trusted to defend. Since that time, Americans have vowed never to bow to another King, or lay down their arms.
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gz22ll
Jan. 21, 2013 at 4:42amMorgan is just trying to pump up his twitter followers and boost his ratings on the blood of Americans. How about these headlines from the last year. These don’t go national because they are not sexy and don’t go with the left agenda.
May 30, 2012 – Louisiana 5 killed on their way home from church by suspected drunk driver DUI
September 2, 2012 – 5 Killed In Rollover Crash In City Of Ontario outside Los Angles. DUI
Jan 2, 2013 Charged With DUI Manslaughter For Crash That Killed 5 Children, One Adult In Mississippi DUI
January 12, 2013 Family of four killed in I-95 crash (multi vehicle crash)
January 12, 2013 4 victims identified in Lee County car crash
January 18, 2013 4 killed in one of several morning crashes Road Conditions
Jan. 19, 2013 5 people killed in Rowan wreck, including 2 children non-DUI
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Joss
Jan. 21, 2013 at 4:31amThe progressive cable media in this country is quickly transforming into a very sad, very stupid tabloid machine. This moron is just the opening salvo. Expect many more to emulate him. Inciting conflict sells ads.
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lassiegirldawn
Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:14amThe administration is also using this @ss wholes as smoke screen because of our finances that the Chinese are buying our business and high quality land,(meaning oil and minerals) for an exchange of our borrowed money, so they have tangible assists. against what we own them form borrowing. It was stated that the business are successful business so as not to buy something they have to dump money in, they can come in and literally take America without a shoot. Infrastructure jobs are on the chopping black also. How well do we like buying the things coming out of China yet having our companies building them under Chinese control.
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Ghandi was a Republican
Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:07amHe just made the case why the rest of us need an AR-15
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lassiegirldawn
Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:01amWe will need the AR-15 especially when the word is given to all the Chinese soldiers camped in Mexico about 80 miles from Eldorado Texas. Google this and there are thousands of them in Mexican uniforms, this was brought our last year from a truck driver delivering food there. Also when the government uses the drug cartels to really turn on people, yes we will need fire power to protect our families and even help local law enforcement that hasn’t crossed over.
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CaliforniaScreaming
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:50amIt’s not like this limey loser has a following – who the hell cares what he says? In the end I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he’s yammering to get up his ratings. After all, if another 10 people tune in he’ll double them….
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marssnw
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:48amUMMMMMM Piers, what about the mass shootings that happen every night in the ghettos with guns other than AR-15′s. Leftist pigs like Piers are completely uneducated when it comes to guns. My shot gun could blow a hole in a person bigger than the AR-15. Does that mean I am looking to kill someone? There is no common sense when it comes to the left and their thinking. They are completely null and void of any sensible logic.
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donottreadonme
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:26amThis cultural misfit, Piers Morgan, was fired for dishonest reporting in the U. K. I see no substantial change in him since that time, so I do not consider him a credible source to tell us anything.
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shorelineliz
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:11amHay you British pr1k and non US citizen try fixing all the STabbings in your own country! Don’t comment on what you don’t know you arrogant Ar$e. Somebody put this toad on an ice float up North and let him fend for himself and cut his freaking microphone off. The British hate this guy royally! Ha!
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TSUNAMI_22
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:04amDon’t worry Piers, it’s a long list but you’re at the top somewhere.
For all of us evil AR-15 owners, doesn’t it strike anybody oddly that none of us have killed anyone considered a liberal, Marxist, Fascist, or Communist? Look at all that’s been done to us in CA and NY and yet we maintain our cool? It’s not like there aren’t enough targets.
Maybe we know that WE ARE better than the liberals that hate guns and America. If that makes me a bigot….then I wear that moniker with pride.
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donttreadonryan
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:59amYeah piers. Because those of us that big game hunt use a small caliber 223. I’m sorry but my 30 06 with scope sighted in for 200 yards that will drop a bull elk is way less scary looking because the stock is made of wood. And my turkey thug with a slugger round is far less dangerous than a .223. My English misguided friend. I know your agenda and that of cnn. You crack up those of us that know thee second amendment was made to avoid a tyrannical govt. The only thing stopping an ar 15 from being used in my house is my much larger calliber weapons. Oh yeah the dou le action revolvers I can shoot faster than a pistol also help. Go back to Britain.
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Chrisrob63
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:51amWe as American citizens can demand the arrest of Morgan for his on-air conspiracy with his guests to imply harm and to muse about ‘popping’ a guest(Alex Jones) and threating his family(I sure hope nothing bad happens to his children). They may claim it was a joke, but their arrests won’t be.
That is a threat that organized crime uses: “Nice house you have; be a shame if anything happens to it.” If someone were to threaten my family like that, they would be staring down the business end of my CC 9mm Parabellum pistol.
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TurboCat
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:49amPiers, you need them if you live on the border. You need them in case of riots, caused by natural disaster or $17 trillion dollars or more in debt causing a financial collapse. And you also need them to protect against government tyranny, which is the reason for OUR second amendment, you limey!
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donttreadonryan
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:45amI’m just trying to figure out why this guy (and others) have zero understanding of how incredibly lethal our big game hunting rifles are at long range with a scope. Of course a slugger 12g round out of my my Turkey thug is so much more safe. The absolute ignorance to the more lethal weaponry is clearly their downfall. They are basically saying because the wooden stocks are pretty and not intimidating they are less of a threat. Ignorant fools pushing an agenda. Don’t back down patriots.
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70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:45amThe AR 15 is basically a .223 or 22 caliber rifle. The percentages of killing with the ar 15 are lower than many of the higher caliber handguns. You have to hit certain spots with the AR, but the higher caliber automatics it will cause the person to bleed to death or worse very fast. These liberal Communist are just trying to disarm America a little bit at a time so the can have their FASCIST DICTATORSHIP. Because these lunatics used the AR in their ignorance their has been fewer deaths if they had used higher caliber automatic handguns.
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keithbrooks
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:45amPierce Morgan isn’t even an American so his views shouldn’t matter. If he wants to air any political views he needs to go to England and express them towards the British government. His hatred towards our consitution makes me want to go and buy an Ar-15 assault rifle just to irritate him and to shoot cans in the back yard.
What made America free? Guns. What has kept us from being attacked by other nations? Guns. What do we do when we watch soccer? Drink coke and beer. What do Brits do watching soccer? Drink beer and fight. Not just one on one but 3000 on 3000 it is a pasttime and people actually go to soccer matches just to fight. The hooligans are kept away from the decent folk.
He wants us to become like that. Let’s ban Pierce Morgan, soccer matches, knives, pipes, goonie boots, hooligans and any other form of weapon you can think of. In fact, to please Pierce Morgan, let’s make people register baseball bats, knives, pipes, rocks, staplers, irons, curling irons, put a ban on knives made out of steel, cars, boats, alcohol, and anything else that a person would do to hurt another. Deport this moron.
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Diane TX
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:38amWhat a complete idiot! I don’t know the number, but there are multitudes of people that own AR-i5′s and THEY never became mass murderers. In fact, the vast majority of them never killed anyone.
This is tripe from someone that “thinks” he knows what he is talking about.
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Abigail Adams
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:22amWhy do I need to know what this idiot says? He has no power, yet his viewpoints are continually reported on. There’s a reason I never watch CNN
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Dougral Supports Israel
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:35amI can’t bring myself to pay attention to any of the so-called mainstream outfits. They have all gone off the deep end and exposed themselves for what they are.
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Soulfire1975
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:42amSounds like he only wants mass murderers with AR15 so we will be out guned
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BryanB
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:59am“The British citizen has been outspoken in his support for stronger gun control measures in the United States, particularly in the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook last month.”
Who cares what he thinks, he’s not even a U.S. citizen and can’t even vote. And why is he on TV in the United States ?
If Piers Morgan doesn’t like our country and it’s laws, he can go back to where he came from……….
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Maji
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:00amMorgan
You need to go home !while you’re here trying
to ruin America…Buckingham palace is being
turned into a “mosque”!!
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bonesiii
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:23amDear Piers.
A homeowner faced with a gang of thieves (one bullet rarely takes down one person, so the more you can fire before reloading the better self defense in such a situation).
Anyone else anywhere else facing a gang of bad guys.
The chance that you might miss, no matter who you are. Having so much backup ammo you don’t need to worry about it is wisest. Worry that you have only a few could make you more nervous and miss with what few you have and then you’re screwed.
Someone wanting to provide cover fire against even just one well-armed bad guy, depending on the situation.
Someone wanting to stop a team of mass murderers like what we saw with Columbine, maybe bigger.
This list could go on and on.
THINK. Because lives are on the line, it’s not good enough to make knee-jerk simpleton reactions like this, Mr. Morgan.
Same goes for all you gun control nuts.
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mercenary4freedom
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:26amobama is getting ready to create damage to US sovereignty of epic proportions. This is why they are pushing so hard to destory the constituttion and take americans guns.
This guy is a traitor if ever I’ve seen one! obama that is…screw Morgan.
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13a
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:40amMorgan just wants reactions from the fringe members among us. Those who cling to their conspiracy theory websites, blogs, radio and talk shows are the ones making most of the noise. This group can be just as insane as the far left animal rights and “green” groups. If someone advocates violent revolution, then you know you’re getting your information from the wrong source.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Jan. 21, 2013 at 2:41amMorgan is nothing but an agitator, much like Oblameus. It seems like the progressive MSM has been becoming that way these last four-five years. Name-call, ridicule, divide, racist, agitate, anything to try to make Republicans look bad.
I was browsing and saw that Randy Newman had been elected to the Rock & Roll HOF and wrote a free downloadable song about it. The song was about him getting elected, because he is white. Newman was quoted saying that people who disagree with Oblameus were racist and couldn’t stand to see a black man in the WH, never mind that he is a lying, cheating, Socialist bastard.
Mark yet another Hollyweird idiot of my list.
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13a
Jan. 21, 2013 at 3:18am“I was browsing and saw that Randy Newman had been elected to the Rock & Roll HOF ”
Freaking dark, dark, dark times. If Randy Newman really just got inducted into the Hall of Fame then THESE are TRULY the TIMES that TRY MEN’S SOULS. Dammit!!!
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tonypro
Jan. 21, 2013 at 4:47amWhy bother parroting, this trash.
The world knows his opinion on what low life’s he thinks us Americans are so there is no need to keep giving him a platform to spew from.
What a waste of time, and effort.
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Landerdude
Jan. 21, 2013 at 4:47am@ Anonymous T. Irrelevant, you make great points, but PLEASE, let’s not engage in the same “name calling” as the other side does. Oblameus and Obummer and all the other silly names make us look small minded and, well, as silly as 5th graders. Let’s focus on the horrible policies of President Obama.
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Jarhead 88
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:05amA weapon, be it a rock or rifle, cannot assault anyone, not without a human wielding it! Quit letting them frame it as an “assault weapon”, there is no such thing. Put the humans away that commit assaults. It’s that easy but they are not interested in solving the problem because it promotes their agenda.
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grimmster
Jan. 21, 2013 at 5:17amThis is all a stunt,it has nothing to do with “protecting’ Americans, or saving American lives, morgan could give a rats ass about either,this is all about morgan, and trying to disarm America.Let this idiot and others keep pushing,and the will see what happens when law abiding citizens are pushed to the edge………
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old white guy
Jan. 21, 2013 at 6:10ami would like one of those guns so i could take down a mass murderer.
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LogCabinRepublican
Jan. 21, 2013 at 7:13amIndeed. STOP reporting on this nutbag – leave him rant to his 3 friends -
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paulhawk
Jan. 21, 2013 at 7:38amThey should take away the assault phone he uses to tweet with
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db321
Jan. 21, 2013 at 7:44amOn Judgement day, Pierce Morgan and other in the liberal Media will be judge by God for more mass murder that any person ever dream of killing with an AR15.
Just remember, according to people in the Obama administration 18 Million people would have to be eliminated for Socialism to work in America.
Come get me Pierce, I refuse to live in a World were Law bidding, God Fearing people are looked down on while Gay Marriage and Pedophilia is applauded. I don’t thing God or myself is going to like the America you are building Peirce.
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SREGN
Jan. 21, 2013 at 7:56amAnd the only people who need a microphone are the ones who say nothing worth hearing.
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cosette
Jan. 21, 2013 at 8:00am@13A….”If someone advocates armed revolution then you know you’re getting your information from the wrong source”……. Thomas Jefferson….”The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”….. I’ll go with Tom.
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rangerskippy
Jan. 21, 2013 at 8:06amMorgan does not dare mention that the most commonly used rifle at the President’s 100 in Camp Perry, Ohio is the AR 15. It is the rifle of choice for 80% or better of High-Power competitors. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohionationalguard/4857233141/
Morgan will not tell you that of the average 100 murders in the US, les than three of them were committed with a rifle of any type.
He will not tell you that the AR is commonly used in the shooting sport of 3-gun
He will not tell you that Americans own 88 guns per 100 people but there are 27 nations with higher murder rates. He will not tell you that Honduras only has 6.6 guns per 100 people, and leads the world in murder
He will not tell you that of the over 500 murders in Chicago, the weapons of choice was the handgun.
He will not tell you that in America, blacks make up 12.5% of the population, and do 1/2 of all murders. One half of murder victims in the US last year, were young black males. If we could lower the black murder rates to the same as whites, we would drop our murder per capita rates by 40%, and would have on of the absolute lowest murder rates in the world, and we would save a whole lot of black lives. I want to save black lives, do you?
He will not tell you that murder, and the majority of our violent crime is heavily tied to our welfare population.
He will not tell you that over 70% of all gun deaths are tied to gangs and drugs. Notice Obama and Morgan do not utter a peep about gan
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redfish52
Jan. 21, 2013 at 8:27amHe is just part of the Obama Media Machine….this is all part of the plan to vilify anyone that owns a firearm….its just stating with the AR-15 but will then move to semi-automatic pistols as a lot of these nut cases that commit these horrific crimes usually have a pistol on them also.
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RationalMan
Jan. 21, 2013 at 1:09amPiers,
Does a Man have a “Right to Exist”?
If you say yes, then Man does have a right to defend itself…
If not then Man become a “SLAVE” toward others!
Do you have a problem with this????
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226crimsontrace
Jan. 21, 2013 at 8:39amI wonder what Morgan would do without the publicity derived from the Blaze, and Guest like A. Jones, L Pratt, W. LaPierre, and B. Shapiro. Perhaps he would disappear into obscurity until he and Olberman are both unemployed.
GOOD JOB BLAZE EDITORS. You are the worst enemy of freedom by giving these clowns recognition
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