Where Piers Morgan goes wrong with gun control

The Washington Times ^ | January 11th | Henry D'Andrea

[conservativeforpalin]

Ever since the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, CNN host Piers Morgan has been on an anti-gun tirade all while lacking common sense and basic facts that drown his gun control rhetoric.

Piers Morgan claims that if assault riffles and high-capacity magazines were outright illegal to own, 27 people wouldn’t have been killed at the elementary school in Newton, Connecticut last year, nor 12 people in Aurora, Colorado. What Morgan fails to realize most is that criminals don’t follow laws they don't want to; that’s why they’re criminals in the first place.

Looking at the Connecticut shooting specifically, the state has some of the strictest laws in the nation. To obtain a gun there, you must be 21. You must apply for a local permit with the town’s police chief and be fingerprinted for a state and federal background check. The process includes a 14-day waiting period, and the state requires a gun safety course for anyone who purchases a handgun.

The gunman in Connecticut wasn’t eligible to own a gun, as he wasn’t 21. He stole the weapons from his mother, who legally obtained them.

In Chicago, another strict gun zone, there were more than 500 homicides last year, well above the 405 casualties of coalition troops in Afghanistan last year. Chicago is a city where gun control has exceedingly failed and their efforts should not be repeated nationally as the White House has suggested in the past.

[West Texas Chuck]

Where this nitwit goes wrong is when he opens his mouth.