Piers Morgan, identified for being a provocateur with a history of controversial remarks, cooked up a shocking response to Fox Information host Jesse Watters over his take following the shootings in Maine this week.
Morgan, who appeared as a visitor on “The 5” Thursday, reacted to Watters after he questioned whether or not “forks make folks fats” in a wild argument in opposition to gun management.
“Weapons don’t kill folks,” Watters declared after asking about forks.
″They do, weapons do kill folks,” replied Morgan, a longtime proponent for stricter gun laws who ended his CNN run with a name for more gun control.
Morgan’s feedback arrive within the wake of shootings in Lewiston, Maine the place officers say a U.S. Military reservist killed 18 folks and injured 13 extra at a bowling alley and bar.
The back-and-forth between Morgan and Watters arrived after the Fox Information host claimed America has weapons due to the U.Okay. whereas the British information persona requested if the U.S. would deal with weapons like Kinder Surprise eggs.
Morgan, earlier in this system, famous that hardly anybody has weapons in the UK and pointed to the distinction within the quantity of mass shootings in Britain in comparison with America.
“You’ve had god is aware of what number of this yr alone and it simply goes on, it’s form of ‘Groundhog Day,’” mentioned Morgan, including that at “some level” the nation has to reply greater than they’ve been to the shootings.
He went on to warning about utilizing the phrase “management” in the case of weapons, claiming folks will “suppose instinctively federal authorities management and it alienates any likelihood of any compromise.”
“Gun security is the way in which this needs to be debated. How do you make it safer? How do you cease these loopholes, these guys slipping via the web? That is clearly a catastrophic failure,” Morgan added.
