I don’t really know who Alex Jones is, or why he was given a platform with which to share his views on CNN, where literally TENS of people might have watched. According to Wikipedia, Alex Jones is a radio talk show host who has been described as a conspiracy theorists and a right-wing zealot who believes that the government was behind the Oklahoma City bombings and the 9/11 attacks. That’s pretty much reason enough for me to tune out, but it doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy watching his flabbergasting rage meltdown on Piers Morgan last night.
Here’s a little context: Piers Morgan, since the Newtown, Connecticut shootings has taken a hard gun-control position. To help back up his stance, he points to the low levels of gun murders in the England: I believe the exact numbers last year were 11,000 gun murders in the United States to 35 in England. This is not a fact that Alex Jones likes to hear, and he insists that while — yes — gun murders are at lower levels in England, they’re a fascist police state where “hordes of people are burning down cities and beating old ladies brains out every day.” Or something.
Around the three minute mark in this first video is about where Jones starts his melt down, claiming that the pharmaceutical industry gives Americans “SUICIDE MASS MURDER PILLS” like Prozac and that psychiatrists give drugs to people to make them crazy and kill people. Then he calls Piers Morgan of “hatchet man of the new world order” and challenges him to a boxing match.
The second part of the interview is really more of the same: Piers Morgan trying to have a civil debate with Alex Jones while he foams at the mouth, blames the media for mass murders, talks about democide (mass murder by the government), claims that “knives, bats, and rocks” are more dangerous than guns, and continues to claim that criminal elements of the military were responsible for 9/11. The best part, however, comes around 5:40, when Alex Jones adopts Piers’ British accent.
Yeah. That happened.
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I’m for more gun laws than most, but, in fairness, bringing Alex Jones on as a spokesman for gun advocates is like bringing that “female-bodied person” named Ketchup from Colbert for the other side.
We should be reminded of Ketchup every once in a while because she was amazing.
Alex Jones is “round-bodied person.” Because he’s fat, you see.
Yeah, even the most hardcore libertarian types I know thinks Jones is just insane.
I long for the day when crazies like Alex Jones were relegated to public access TV, and not given a forum on CNN.
Sadly, he’s already done the rounds of public access and people deemed him crazy/interesting enough to elevate him to a national level.
CNN is pretty much public access TV these days.
Where he got his start, believe it or not.
Hooooooooly shit. Remember that old consumer forum SNL skit where Dan Akroyd tried to argue that cute, safe little toys were just as dangerous as bags of glass and toys with switchblades?
This is like that, except way crazier and depressing.
Hilarious: [www.hulu.com]
Irving Mainway is WAY more scrupulous.
Meh, would have been better if he had lost his sh*t against something credible like Stewart or Silverfox and not, you know, Piers Morgan.
Stewart? Jon Stewart? The comedian that lampoons real news on a comedy channel for laughs and ratings? Credible like him?
@squabbler
You’ve never actually seen Jon Stewart interview someone who wasn’t a movie star, have you?
Jon Stewart does do fantastic interviews, but to be fair to squabbler, he also hides behind the whole, “I’m just a comedian. Don’t take what I do seriously” thing, which is undermining his own work.
The Onion lampoons the news. Stewart is actually a phenomenal interviewer.
Stewart is legitimate news considering it has been shown that his viewers are more informed than those whom watch the news. So yeah that Stewart.
Hang on, I know a guy named John Stewart – he lives a few doors down. Is that the John Stewart you’re talking about? Because I know him to be a level-headed fair-minded individual. I never noticed him interviewing anybody but he shoots a mean game of H-O-R-S-E.
it’s clear squabbler doesn’t actually watch the daily show
I just assumed he was playfully spoofing the logic that politicians always use when they go on the Daily Show and completely get owned.
Jon Stewart is a fantastic interviewer? Clearly you people never saw his appalling and dangerously inaccurate interviews with some of the Middle Eastern talking heads. His interview with King Abdullah immediately comes to mind.
Yeah, what Karribiner said.
My only problem with all this is that it gives piers morgan publicity. I wish he would just go away. This is nothing political I just don’t think he is good at his job.
How can you say he isn’t good as his job when his job was formerly held by Larry Cryptkeeper King? Piers might be just another clown in this big dumb circus but he’s certainly better than Larry King and a lot of the softball tossing “journalists” out there.
I’m a Brit now living in the US and while I would dearly like to never see Piers Morgan again, I don’t really think it’s fair to the UK to send him back there.
Ideally I’d like to see him made chief correspondent to Kerguelen and kept there forever. [en.wikipedia.org]
I think Morgan had to have this guy on to try to get some cred back. He blew up and looked nuts a week or so ago when talking to a gun rights guy.
Top photo – he looks like the King of Queens guy.
Just goes to show that if you say anything loudly enough, no matter how stupid, America will reward you with air time and success. I can’t wait til Alex Jones is president.
That means Camacho is next.
I’d say a cross between Lutz from 30 Rock and that Frank Calliendo guy.
Good call, SuperHans. BTW, you’re awesome on Peep Show.
Lutz, for the win.
Lutz….i cant unsee that now
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Its not guns. Its crazy people.
If someone wants to take my guns that I use for sport and self-defense, theyre more than welcome to try. But I can guarantee they wont get within 50 yards of me without looking like swiss cheese.
What a sane way of dealing with things:
“You think I’m threatening with all my guns? Just try and take them from me and I’ll kill you!”
@Squish78
Did you include that first sentence just so your 2nd sentence could be as ironic as possible?
“Someone” would be the police and if you make the guy serving the warrant look like Swiss cheese what do you think the S.W.A.T. team is going to do to you? They’re going to kill your dogs (if you have any) first, because fuck you. If your wife/husband isn’t face down on the floor with her/his fingers laced behind her/his head, they’re going to kill her, because fuck you. The same is true for your kids. Then, no matter what you’re doing, they’re going to kill you, because fuck you.
That is the absolute best case scenario for you: the local police. The ATF will kill you with a machine gun mounted to a helicopter. The National Guard will kill you with a tank. The Army/Navy/Air Force/Marines will kill you with a drone or a missile launched from 50 miles out at sea, unless they want you alive. Then you’re double-fucked.
If you want to die for the 2nd Amendment because freedom, knock yourself out, but don’t try to pretend you’re some kind of badass just because you bought a gun. Square off with the US government and you’ll be a grease spot not a martyr.
I think we should take guns away for a week just so nutjobs like Squish are taken out by the cops, then give all of the sane people their guns back.
I think we all can agree that when it comes to guns, Americans are very logical.
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Relevant
I thought the uproxx commenters would be use to trolling by now. I just enjoyed watching all of you trip over yourselves to reply to a comment that I was just farting around on.
Hey remember when I made that comment that made me sound like an idiot? I was tooooootally kidding. Joke’s on you, losers!
i don’t think you can really blame people for taking your comment seriously when there are millions of people who sincerely believe what you said.
Fair enough, dissident.
The 2nd Amendment, Batman Shooting & High Fructose Corn Syrup
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good thing Piers was able to find someone closer to his IQ level after he got flat embarrassed by Larry Pratt a few weeks ago.
+1
+1 as well pe my previous comment.
I’d recommend watching the video of Piers Morgan “interviewing’ Larry Pratt from Gun Owners of America and see how him do the same thing Alex Jones did to him. I don’t care for Jones much either but someone needed to shut Morgan up.
Lesson here is don’t try to take John Ritter’s guns.
John Ritter, yes! I was trying to put my finger on it for a few minutes now.
People jump off the Empire States Building
OUTLAW GIANT BUILDINGS
Alex Jones has a conspiritard power level over 9000, as seen here: [youtu.be]
Hmm, so an island nation which has outlawed guns has very few “gun related” deaths each year. YOU DON”T SAY!! But, on the other hand, what’s their rate of violent crime, in general, compared to the US? Ohh, right. So they’ve traded “gun crime” for knife crime, and cricket bat crime… but they’re still no safer than the US? Got it, thanks. So… maybe GUNS aren’t the problem?
Ah yes, who can forget the mass cricket bat murder rampage of ’09?
^^ This guy is on fire today
@David Bowies Nipple Antennae – so are you actually stating the UK has less violent crime in general than the US or just capitalizing on the cricket bat joke?
A cricket bat was once my weapon of choice for home defence although I never needed to use it in anger. I do recall Inzamam-Ul-Haq attacking a spectator with one for calling him a big potato.
Cricket bats, duh.
Also, I wasn’t capitalizing on the joke, I was socializing it. Silly liberals!
Spinal tap manager Ian Faith is a big fan of cricket bat violence.
You mean these crime rates?
[www.guardian.co.uk]
Or these stats that show nearly 70% of murders in the US are committed with guns?
[www.fbi.gov]
(for the record, I don’t think guns should be outlawed, but we do need to make it harder for people to obtain them. You shouldn’t be able to buy a mass murder weapon along with a carton of eggs at Wal-Mart).
Are you referring to these stats?
[www.guardian.co.uk]
Or these, which state that 70% of murders in the US are committed with guns?
[www.fbi.gov]
(for the record, i don’t think guns should be banned but they definitely should be made harder to obtain.)
I refuse to wield a weapon when I don’t understand the game it’s used to play.
All violent crime isn’t the same. Chris Brown/Rhianna is one kind. Adam Lanza is another. Jerry Sandusky is a third.
All violent crime isn’t the same. Chris Brown/Rhianna is one kind. Adam Lanza is another. Jerry Sandusky is a third.
To be fair, Piers Morgan’s argument is pretty weak. There are other countries that have similar gun regulations on semi-autos like us (Italy and Germany come to mind) but have a much lower murder by gun rate than we do. I’m a gun owner, and I’m fine with more regulation, but that’s not going to be a catch-all cure to the issue of gun violence. It has to be a culture change more than anything else.
With that said, Alex Jones is still bat-sh*t insane.
I don’t get it. Why use a gun when you can just get, like, SUPER CLOSE and then press the MELEE button, right?
All other defenses for the 2nd amendment aside, it seems incredibly silly for people to think they have the right/chance to overthrow the government with semi-autos, grenades and whatever these people have.
I for one, would love to see the results of “Private Gun Owners of America” VS “United States Armed Forces”
Personally, I think we’d better results from a group like Anonymous than a bunch of reactionary “militia members”.
This ^^^^ Chimpo is so right.
No offense, Nacho, but a lot of those two groups are the same people.
This is true, but only one of them adheres to an insanely strict code of honor when it comes to defending his/her country against the other one.
I don’t think it would play out the way you think
[blog.wilsoncombat.com]
Private Gun Owners of America and United States Armed Forces are not exclusive groups, so it would be civil war and that sucked hard the last time we tried it.
Exactly. I mean, sure, you could kill one or two cops with whatever weaponry you might legally obtain, but the consequences of that would definitely be worse for you than whatever those cops were initially trying to do. You’re gonna have a very hard time standing your ground against teargas, armored trucks, SWAT troopers, strykers, tanks, and the state’s ability to cut off your power, water, etc. You’d basically have to become a guerrilla nomad. If the American government ever became so brutally tyrannical that the Vietcong lifestyle seemed preferable, I would kill myself with gusto. Simply living regardless of circumstance is not that fucking great.
Remember that Alex Jones was the guy defending Charlie Sheen as sane and sober during his meltdown. Dude is fucking crazy…
I’d still like to know how many chimpanzees can dance on the head of a pin. Inquiring minds want to know.
it would’ve been great if Pierce had just stopped, crossed his arms and said “These chimpanzees on a pin…go on”
“Proceed, gun nut.”
Alex Jones is not a gun nut. He’s just a nut in general
Agreed, he clearly needs some of those meds he’s railing against.
As a member of the redcoats, I for one can’t wait to see this mans face when we take back the colonies.
For Her Majesties Glory!
I’ll never drive on the left side of the road! The Constitution lives!!!
FUCK the metric system!
Look dude. We’re not taking Madonna back, so tool up if you think you need to.
Her Majesty shall accept you with open arms. Loyalists will be embraced, Rebels shall be smothered.
Like, with pillows?
I think we’ve already established that we have more guns than you.
Most of us would happily abandon the metric system if that was the price of making sure you couldn’t deport Piers Morgan back here.
Sure this guy is nuts, but too many people are way to quick to label defenders of the 2nd amendment as “gun nuts.”
How insane that people want to defend a right that has been around for 200+ years.
That’s probably not too far off from what slave owners said in the mid 1800s.
No insane is looking at the one amendment that says the enumerated right should be “well-regulated” and insisting that the same right should therefore be totally, completely unregulated.
The militia is well-regulated. The people’s right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. That’s me understanding of the English language.
The right to bear arms is premised on their necessity for a volunteer militia, in which their use would be well-regulated. This is letter-clear in the debates.
Alex Jones’ mother: “Would it have killed you to wear a jacket and tie? You’re going on national television, you want to make a good impression on people!”
Bravo.
Alex Jones caused 9/11! I found the truth in a unix garbage file!
Not all gun right activists are crazy people like this.
I like your particular version of rock pop songs.
It’d be great if they showed up for the conversation.
I don’t want to take away people’s hunting rifles and handguns they have at home for self-defense, but if you don’t want the gun rights position to be dominated by people who believe Jesus Christ wanted them to have teflon-coated hollow points in an extended mag, then feel free to shove them aside.
It’s not in the opposition’s interest to have them on. The only way to win is to not play. CPE 1704 TKS
I think they try to show up to the conversation and then leave when people try and group them in with crackpots like the one in this video. Most “assault weapons” are really no different then your average rifle except how they look. Folding stocks and forward grips do not affect how a gun shoots but classify them as an assault weapon. Also most are smaller caliper sizes. An AR-15 shoots .223 ammo which is much less powerful than say a .308, 30-06, or .270 which are the most common hunting rifles. Assault weapons have gotten a lot of bad press lately, but they’re manufactured for a reason: to take out today’s modern super animals, such as the flying squirrel, and the electric eel.
Wow, he just jumps right into the crazy doesn’t he? Dip your toe in first Jonesy. I really think if Jones was allowed to have a gun during that interview, he would have been waving it around and pointing it at Morgan for emphasis.
Nothing about this guy says moderation.
It had the feel of a guy who calls talk radio all the time and has to spew out the crazy before the producers hang up on him.
I’m surprised he didn’t end with “BABABOOEY! BABABOOEY!”
How ’bout a kiss, boy?
You can’t jump into crazy when you’re already there when you wake up in the morning.
“Jumps?” He was firmly entrenched in crazy before the cameras started rolling.
It’s not crazy to blame prescription drugs, that’s savvy. However, the argument pertaining to drugs is the same as weapons. The people who haul off and mass murder a bunch of strangers aren’t using their prescribed medications responsibly or at all.
I believe he’s firmly entrenched in gun money, bacon grease and cocaine.
Well that escalated quickly.
I was just thinking the same thing.
I find that Reggae Gold 2013 clip really helps clean the palate. Too much crazy hurts my tummy
So in this argument, I can either root for a psychotic windbag conspiracy theorist or a self prompting sociopath who taps phones to bump his circulation rate? It’s news coverage like this that makes ME want to go on a shooting rampage. *sigh*
you just sounded like such a 50 year old aunt. Are you a 50 year old aunt?
No, but I have the sex life of a fifty year old aunt.
This guy’s obviously a first rate crazy person, but he did kind of have a point about the media hyping up these mass murders and inspiring copycats. Obviously I don’t think it’s part of some New World Order plot, but the shooter’s name and picture getting plastered all over TV and newspapers doesn’t really help matters.
Also I hope that Morgan has some actual sensible people in support of gun ownership come on his show and not just this jackass, because otherwise that just does a disservice to the debate. I have no problem with him wanting to confront a guy calling for his deportation though.
It’s really Morgan’s fault for bringing him on. No one who has even a slight idea of who Alex Jones is would think he’s a good choice for a major network interview. Morgan had to have known that this would get crazy, and it’s pretty unfair to bring extremist radicals on to debate “the other side of the issue”. It’s like bringing Courtney Love on to debate drug legalization.
It’s the ultimate in straw men arguments, it’s like have sock puppet co-host with you (I believe that show was called Hannity and Colmes).
Piers Morgan did this on purpose. Who doesn’t want a blowhard to represent the opposing argument in the debate?
I strongly dislike most of the “news” personalities on TV today; Morgan is in good company with the rest of those scumbags. Ever wonder where he came from and why he’s in the USA right now?
Question Answered: [news.bbc.co.uk]
My mom sent me an infowars link this morning asking what I thought about the article’s “info.” I forwarded this video to her and she responded with “well he’s fucking insane. Sorry about that.”
I got sucked into Jones’ Twitter feed yesterday. It was… special.
He really is nuts, you should hear his radio show.
He does have a good voice for the radio though, I’ll give him that. IN EXCHANGE FOR ALL HIS GUNS.
Speaking as a conservative and a gun owner, I would indeed feel safer if we took Alex Jones’s guns. I am pro Jones Control.
Haha.. crazy fuck. He’s the one who needs to be controlled.
You can do volunteer works at mental hospitals. I sure it’s a safer more controlled environment.
I did kind of like the Alex Jones part of Waking Life but I wasn’t really listening to what he was saying.
Lutz is mad.
You made me laugh out loud at a public place, and now people are looking at me.
Alex Jones should not be considered a representative of any broad population of gun owners or gun advocates. I’ve been a conservative most of my life and can tell you with absolute certainty this man does not reflect the values or ideas of the conservative base. He’s even farther on the fringe than Keith Olberman, and O had a show on Current TV, for fuck’s sake. However, the man does make one poignant argument, buried beneath the insanity: why AREN’T we discussing the role of SSRI’s in these tragedies?
The FDA recognizes SSRI’s have the potential to cause mania, suicidal thoughts, and “homicidal ideation.” The trigger pullers on a number of the nation’s saddest days were taking them. I realize I probably sound as crazy as Alex Jones right now, but, I’m open to the idea because I’ve had a taste of those side effects. The Army doles out SSRI’s like candy. When I met with a therapist post-deployment, they gave me some, and I reported feelings of paranoia, violent thoughts and high irritability after the first eight weeks of use. I shudder to think what would have happened if I didn’t stop taking the pills.
As an endgame, I’d just like to see some studies done. Maybe they’ll debunk any idea of SSRI’s being even remotely linked to this stuff within a couple of weeks. I’d just like to see the inquiries made.
Okay sure, I’d be happy to agree to many many studies done on the effects of SSRI’s, provided conservatives are willing to vote to pass laws that would make it much more difficult to purchase a gun of any kind without a battery of psychological tests.
did we bring up Steven Segal?
Well, it’s not really something you have to agree to, it’s not a matter of policy, I was just saying I’d like to see it discussed, delved into. It doesn’t put extra requirements on anyone or potentially stop someone from doing anything.
As it is, buying a gun already comes with a number of inquiries. A history of psychoactive prescriptions, drug use, criminal activity, or commission to a mental institution can disbar you from completing a purchase. I even got background checked when buying a late 1940′s decorative rifle.
Understood, I didn’t mean it like an either or kind of thing. I just meant that whenever one of these horrible shootings happens, gun advocates (in general) tend to bemoan the poor quality of the American system of identifying and treating the mentally ill, while at the same time opposing any laws that would further regulate gun purchases.
I’m sure there are tests you need to pass when buying a gun, but there should be more of them, and more in depth ones to keep people from slipping through the cracks. Gun show regulation should be a huge priority, especially.
As a conservative, I’m sure you’ll agree to the tax increase that comes with these studies, the increased need for mental health facilities and/or putting an armed guard at every school in the country.
I don’t see why we’d need a tax increase to fund the study. Loads of studies are funded every year by public funds already. There are many outlets for research, I’m sure one of them could take it on.
I’m reading an aggressive reaction from you. I don’t get why. I wasn’t here to talk about armed guards and the American mental health network. It was just an idea. But, fuck me, I guess, for sharing it.
Jones is a self-promoting talk show host, much like Rush Limbaugh, who can be used as a punching bag by the Left so they can feel intellectually superior (despite currently advocating a PLATINUM TRILLION DOLLAR COIN as a solution to the debt ceiling). Larry Pratt did a much better job, but of course, that interview didn’t/won’t get anywhere near the attention of Jones because the people want the circus, not the substance.
Circuses are pretty sweet bro.
You can put it in all caps to make it sound crazy, but the platinum coin option is perfectly legal.
And it’s certainly no crazier than a bunch of right-wing know-nothing teatards holding the debt limit hostage because they think it has something to do future spending.
Jones believes the US govt is behind evil plots, yet cites FBI crime stats. So he needs guns because he doesn’t trust the government, except when it comes to stats that he uses to help his batshittery
Katherine Webb was a more credible tv commentator Last night.
mmmmm…Katherine Webb
All politics aside – I grew up with two British parents, and I lived in England for 5 years of my life and there is NOTHING than annoys me more than how a lot of people think they can do a good “British accent impression”. With that said Alex’s wasn’t bad.
Piers Morgan is the kind of guy that nobody would mind if they found him dead tomorrow morning. He’s plagued the papers and television over here in england for years and i’m sorry to see him being an arsehole over there as well but Alex Jones almost had me siding with the smarmy, pig-faced, phone hacking twatbasket there. That man can fucking shout.
Text I sent to a friend last night: “Alex Jones may be the only person who can go on Piers Morgan’s show and come off as the bigger fuckwit.”
Agreed on all counts.
This is funny as hell
“Alex. Alex. Ale-”
“THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO KILL US ALL!”
“Alex. Alex. Calm down. Alex. Al”
“THE MEDIA IS PUTTING THOUGHTS IN OUR HEADS, THEY ARE TRYING TO BOMB THE CIVILIA-”
“Alex. Alex. Alex”
“ASSAULT WEAPONS AND SCIENCE PILLS!”
“Alex. Alex. Alex.”
Guy’s a nutter, but I don’t mind seeing a guy yelling at Piers Morgan. Hahaha, I just got to the accent part. That was great. Anyway, do you think he talks (shouts) in every conversation he has in his life?
Alex…Alex…
(LMAO)
What happens when two jackasses get into a argument? I turn off the TV.
It’s obvious that limey prick only brought that crazy on to discredit the entire pro-gun movement. Also Dustin your continued efforts to ignite a POFlaWar on every third post you write is the leading reason this site has lost favor since the change (at least for me it is). I always thought Matt kept things politically neutral or moderate in tone as reasonably as best he could. This aint the Huffington Post dude.
POFlaWar = Party on Florida war? Pictures of Florida War? I don’t get it.
Post Office Flavor Wars, DUH!
First off, I love video games, R-rated movies, and Annie’s Boobs (not the monkey). But I also love guns. So please hear me out as I state my case in opposition to Piers Morgan’s view. While it is true that the UK only had 35 gun murders in 2011, they also had a total of 564 murders overall. With a population of about 62 million, that is a murder rate of about 11.5% per 100k ([tinyurl.com]). The US however only had 8,583 gun murders 2011, out of a total of 14,022 murders. With a population of about 292 million, that is a murder rate of about 4.8% per 100k ([tinyurl.com]). Piers Morgan said in his debat that comparing gun murders to car crash fatalities is a false equivalency (32,367 10.3% 2011 [tinyurl.com]). I believe that comparing UK and US gun murders is the true false equivalency given that the UK has less guns over all and a smaller population. The fair comparison is in the rate of murders, witch the UK has the higher. People in the UK are killing each other at a higher rate than in the US. At 11.5% vs. 4.8%, you are more than twice as likely to be murdered in England than in America. And unless you are one of the 35, you will be kill up close and personally, in a very hands on manner.
There are an estimated 350 million guns in the US. That brakes down to about 200 mil in private hands and 150 mil in government hands. With an EST. 350 million guns and ave. of about 8,500 gun murders a year, that is a 0.0024% fatality rate. Every product manufacturer in America would love to have that safety rate.
Look, I’m not trying to be callus or cold about this issue. I truly feel for the the families that lost loved ones to any horrific tragedy. And I am totally open to make meaningful changes could help prevent something like this in the future. For instance requiring mental health professionals and pharmacist to report all patient with impairing prescription drug usage or illness to a national database for use in background checks. Both are already disqualifications for a gun purchase, but are not reported due to medical confidentiality laws. We could also reopen state run mental hospitals and make it possible for doctors commit someone against their will. It is almost impossible under todays laws to involuntarily hospitalize some until they commit a violent crime. By then it is to late. Jared Loughner, James Holmes, and Adam Lanza each gave ample warning signs, but their families and school officials where ether legally unable to or unwilling to force them to get the help they needed before they acted.
However, there appears to be an orchestrated effort on the part of some politicians and media groups to exploit the misery of these families by propping them up to manipulate the publics emotions. They use these rare shootings to make an emotional argument that inanimate objects are convincing people to commit horrible crimes. As though these lunatics were not already looking for ways to kill people. Contrary to Piers Morgan, the most deadly mass killing involving a single perp was the Oklahoma Federal Building bombing. Timothy McVeigh took 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680 people with a bomb that only cost about $5,000. In all, the truck rental cost about $250, the fertilizer ( 80 50-pound bags of ammonium nitrate) less than $500, and the nitromethane (drag racing fuel) $2,780, with a cheap car being used as a getaway vehicle. No guns were used to kill anyone in this incident.
The fact is that the people pushing for gun control have been waiting for a long time for the perfect incident to exploit in order to further their agenda. Which is to ban all gun. If you take their argument to its logical conclusion, you have to ban all guns because after “assault” guns are band, criminals and crazies will start using single shot hunting rifles, then muskets or what ever is available. The goal is not to lower crime, the goal is to disarm the American people. Crime continues on by whatever means are available. England’s murder rate proves that.
This website has vehemently defended video games from the same unproven causal argument that violent video games cause violence. An article posted here two weeks ago showed studies disproving this argument with real statistics. You rightly chastised the public burning of video games as knee jerked hysteria. The FBI’s own statistics state that over 70% of the time a firearms is used in the US, it is for legitimate defensive purposes. That means a gun is three times more likely to help you than hurt you. All I ask is that you give the second amendment, that protects all your other rights, the same consideration as violent video games and movies (which I love almost as much as Annie’s Boobs).
In summation, the US has the most guns in private citizens hands than any other country in the world. America is also the country with the most freedom in the world. Ergo: Guns = Freedom (IE. violent video games, raunchy comedy, and dirty movies. MERIC!!!)
/slow clap
You think America is the country with the most freedom in the world?
The Netherlands would probably disagree, what with the legalized drugs and prostitution and all.
Technically, I guess Somalia would be the winner in the whole “freedom = no gubmint” argument.
I think agree with this guy, we should probably think about banning the use of explosives to blow up buildings before we tackle the gun issue.
Hi De Niro, sorry you mistook my url links as spam. They links to the FBI’s crime statistics web sites. They are there to prove that I’m not pulling numbers out of my ass. Its an easy mistake to make if you don’t read before you comment. Fucking idiot
Thanks for telling me the links were legit, because I followed them and checked them out. The FBI page lists homicides at a rate of 4.8 per 100k, but the homicide rate in the UK lists homicides at a rate of 11.5 per million. So really, the crime rates are 4.8 vs. 1.15… i.e., you are over four times more likely to be murdered in the US than the UK.
(P.S. The US has five times the population but almost 25x the number of murders. That’s why your numbers about the rates seemed fishy to me.)
Fucking spammers
I really thought it was entertaining that Alex Jones went from 0 to 60 without Piers Morgan saying a single word. Just enraged out of nowhere.
Funny stuff. Sad that it’s on an international news channel though.
You should not of wrote this blog if you don’t even know who Alex Jones is.
Tell Aunt Sally hello for me, Scotty!
“DOESN’T MATTER HOW MANY LEMMINGS YOU GET OUT THERE ON THE STREET BEGGING FOR ‘EM TO HAVE THEIR GUNS TAKEN! WE WILL NOT RELINQUISH THEM! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!”
I have no doubt this dude could work the greatest shoot promo in 80s WWF history.
Oh no doubt.
Seeing Piers Morgan trying to have a civil disscussion with Alex Jones is like seeing a teacher deal with a special ed kid having one of those days.
Brilliant! Watching the guy seriously in need of prolonged anger management therapy advocating for more guns. That’s rich. Who else thinks he needs to go back on his meds?
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I don’t know if there’s a better place to put this, but this site seems to have posted your article as its own, Mr. Rowles.