Piers Morgan ripped to pieces on national television!

[justice06rr]

He got even more torn up on the Colbert Show on Jan 14th. Watch it, its hilariuos and it only took Colbert less than 5mins to break him down.

In short, Colbert asked Morgan how he can tell us how to live here in the US and about all our Rights, when Morgan has never had those rights and does not know what he's talking about. Colbert gave him 3 copies of the Bill of Rights just for kicks LOL.

Piers brought up the four recent shooting involving "assault rifles". Hard to dispute that. And, hard to ignore. Now guys, try to forget you are pro-gun for a minute. If you think like a lib, or just allow yourself a few minutes away from the emotions your feeling, if a guy wants to try to offer a solution to the MAJORITY that doesn't cost them anything (I think semi-auto rifle owners MIGHT be in the minority), then they might stop and listen to what he has to say. That is scary, and simple minds will jump on simple "solutions" (they are not really solutions, but someone is selling them on it right now anyway). We have to be ready to refute any and ALL points they bring up, with articulated reasoning. Anything less, and we look like we are scrambling, grabbing ast straws, or making things up.

Hard to dispute? Not at all.

Assault rifles are not the issue. Its more like mental health, security of schools and the public, etc.

Some of us are actually not involved emotionally with all the mass shooting tragedies and still think logically, unlike others who jump at people and misuse their emotions to gain foothold on gun control.

 

[meanmrmustard]

Yup--I am a resident in STL as well and she's a very popular Tea Party leader in our area (her talk show is based out of here).

He repeatedly kept asking "do you think that 2A allows for drones, tanks, RPG's" etc...

St Louis boy here, too.

He gets roiled by the answers he gets, when he allows an answer, then recycles his own rhetoric to try and win an argument that he can't.

Plus, Loesch is hot.

 

[Jolly Rogers]

Remember that the police where impotent in fighting off the real "assault" weapons the armed robbers used until they were able to borrow LEGAL semi auto sporting rifles from local gunshops. Thank god there were some in the area!
This in reference to the North Hollywood event.
Joe

 

[jamesbeat]

No, I'd say America has more Brits on TV than Britain has Americans, and the Americans on British TV do seem to be more on the liberal side.

I think that's just the fact that the media tends to be liberal though.

Believe me, in my experience, Brits in general aren't nearly as anti-gun as a lot of Americans think they are, and Americans rarely fit the stereotype that they have in Britain.

The problem is the media. Both countries are dictated to by their liberal media, including Piers Morgan...

 

[PT92]

He got even more torn up on the Colbert Show on Jan 14th. Watch it, its hilariuos and it only took Colbert less than 5mins to break him down.

MUST SEE TV--I know "Colbert" is a "character" but WOW did he not convey to Morgan the 'comedic' hypocrisy of a "Red Coat" dictating "once again" to America to follow the British lead--IMO both poignant and freaking hilarious!

Assault rifles are not the issue...

Am I the only one in the thread that rejects the antis definition of an "assault rifle?" As I see it, if we don't immediately make clear to ALL that there are no "assault rifles" in civilian hands we will never sway public opinion...

In NY this Ruger 10/22 is now ILLEGAL and classified as an assault rifle :Are you kidding me.....?

 

[PT92]

St Louis boy here, too.

He gets roiled by the answers he gets, when he allows an answer, then recycles his own rhetoric to try and win an argument that he can't.

Bingo!

Plus, Loesch is hot.

 

[ZeSpectre]

Just a general statement, not aimed an anyone in particular.

I'm getting more and more annoyed with people who think the Constitution is a "buffet". That they can select the parts they like and ignore the others. It's one big pill that you have to swallow whole. Do so or go someplace where you'll feel more comfortable.

 

[jamesbeat]

Bingo!

That's what is really ironic to me, the entire media is based upon the First Amendment. If it wasn't for the First Amendment, we wouldn't have a media (we'd have a propaganda machine, but not what we think of as the media).
If the First Amendment was treated as disrespectfully as they treat the Second Amendment, they would be up in arms (no pun intended).
All of the amendments are there for a reason, and are all equally important.

 

[skeeziks]

"Am I the only one in the thread that rejects the antis definition of an "assault rifle?"

No...you're not. There's you, and there's me.

It's been bugging the crap out of me as well. Someone from the left made this nick-name up years ago and now everyone refers to them as such.

 

[jamesbeat]

Another one here, "assault rifle" has been deliberately misused (along with news footage of full auto fire) to fool the general public into believing that people can walk into a store and buy a machine gun.

I guess it's ok to lie as long as it's for the kids...

 

[Trent]

Is this groundhog day?

We had this thread a few days ago.

Either that or I'm really losing it.

 

[col.lemat]

The only point Morgan can make is on the the top of his head

 

[PT92]

Is this groundhog day?

We had this thread a few days ago.

Either that or I'm really losing it.

Not to veer off on a Tangent, but it's amazing the "cult-like" following that film has garnered over the years...? It's almost replaced "Deja Vu" in our vernacular...

But I get your point in that we have read so much about a few topics in particular of late (all over the Net) it's hard to keep track ...

 

[sig228]

Great interview. Worth taking the 15 minutes to watch. I especially like the fiery beginning.

 

[blarby]

Unfortunately, coming across as a tyranny wonk at the end of the discussion will indeed make americans make their own choice.

The correct answer to that question is :

" I believe that we need any weapon obtainable, including the AR-15, to defend us from tyranny both from within and without-. Especially against those landed foreign nationals who cchoose to come to our land dictating the terms of our constitution that freed us from the specific tyranny of their homeland. "

 

[mortablunt]

I have to say that I'm rather offended at the anti-British sentiment in a couple of posts here.

It was my understanding that this forum had strict rules against bigotry.

I am British, and I care about the Second Amendment way more than most of my American family members, friends and acquaintances do.

Seconded. My father is British, as are most of my known relatives. Apparently, bigotry is okay when it's against unpopular groups and persons. Need I remind people that this is The High Road and not The High Horse? We're better than this.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Is this groundhog day?

We had this thread a few days ago.

Either that or I'm really losing it.

Heh! Nope, you're not losing it at all:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=694994

 

[sig228]

Here's the interview with Colbert, it's pretty good too:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/422859/january-14-2013/piers-morgan

 

[mortablunt]

Thanks a ton, sig228 for the Colbert link.