Piers Morgan Clashes With Guest Over Whether It Is Appropriate Time To Discuss Gun Control

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/piers-morgan-clashes-with-guest-over-whether-it-is-appropriate-time-to-discuss-gun-control/

On his CNN show tonight, Piers Morgan brought up the issue of gun control in the wake of last night’s shooting in Aurora, Colorado. One of his guests, law professor David Kopel, told Morgan that is not an appropriate time to have such a discussion, and said he should wait a few days for more information to come in. Morgan shot back by explaining what the shooter got his hands on and told Kopel not to “patronize” him for raising questions about what the shooter was able to legally acquire. -- snip --

[Loudly]

1. Australia got its most important gun control from such a slaughter.

It is absolutely legitimate to steer the momentum from public concern at such a moment.

The survival of American society could very well depend on it.

[Kalidurga]

2. If not now when.

Maybe after a few dozen more mass murders. Maybe a mass murder of school children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_School_massacre Really, when is a good time. Because people are killed with guns everyday. Lots of people. You can find an example of a shooting any day of the week. The difference is in only in the number of victims per shooting.

[Tx4obama]

3. Two more school massacres

Amish School Massacre

On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_school_massacre

Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre (often known simply as Columbine) was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly, with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school massacre in United States history, after the 1927 Bath School disaster, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and the 1966 University of Texas massacre, and remains the deadliest for an American high school.

The massacre sparked debate over gun control laws, the availability of firearms within the United States and gun violence involving youths. Much discussion also centered on the nature of high school cliques, subcultures and bullying, in addition to the influence of violent movies and video games in American society. The shooting resulted in an increased emphasis on school security, and a moral panic aimed at goth culture, social outcasts, gun culture, the use of pharmaceutical anti-depressants by teenagers, teenage internet use[1] and violent video games.[2][3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre