PIERS MORGAN, HOST: The AR-15, as we've now seen from the last three mass shootings in America, Aurora, the shopping mall in Oregon, and now at Sandy Hook school, is the preferred choice of weapon for disturbed young men who want to commit mass atrocity, can fire hundreds of bullets at rapid speed, if you have the right magazines.
The president of the United States has indicated he wants to ban assault weapons like this. What is your view?
LARRY PRATT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA: I think we need to ban gun control laws that keep people from being able to protect themselves. The problem is not going to go away if we ban this or that gun. We've tried that. That doesn't work. Doesn't even work in England. You have mass murders there all over Europe. There have been mass murderers.
MORGAN: You're talking complete and utter — you are talking complete and utter nonsense.
PRATT: The solution is for people to be able to defend themselves at the point of the crime and not wait for 20 minutes for the police come after everybody is dead.
MORGAN: What you've just said, Mr. Pratt, was an absolute lie. The gun murder rate in countries like Britain or Germany or Australia, we've all suffered massacres many years ago, similar nature, have — there are 35 people killed a year. Your country has 12,000.
PRATT: Britain is a dump. The economy is spiraling down the toilet, they have a huge dependent class, and people are arrested if they merely try to defend themselves. You think we should follow THAT example?
MORGAN: Don't try to change the subject.
PRATT: Maybe the CNN poofdahs think your British accent adds to your credibility, but spouting socialist propaganda isn't news, and you should be ashamed of yourself for saying you're in the news business.
MORGAN: I'm not going to listen to these insults - answer the question at hand. The facts are, they had a massacre. And they got rid of the assault weapons.
PRATT: The Brits have a long history of being subjects, and in the last generation they have created a permanent culture of welfare and dependency. We kicked your lobster-backed butts out of here in ‘76, and I think we should kick your paternal philosophy of subjecthood out of the country again. Go kiss Price Charles's butt, since that's what you really want to do, but don't expect us to buy your drivel here.
Sounds as though Pratt gave the Crumpet a good ole’ American ass kicking.