CNN's Piers Morgan is up in arms again over guns, and tried to use
Wednesday's shooting at the Family Research Council to shill for more
gun control. There's one problem – the shooter was not obeying
Washington D.C.'s strict gun laws.
"We've had only today the conservative Family Research Council, a
shooting that may well have been politically motivated," Morgan said
before asking Newark Mayor Corey Booker (D), "When you take all these
things into consideration, you must be disappointed that the President
isn't ordering some new form of gun control, aren't you?" [Video below
the break. Audio here [1].]
Morgan had lumped the FRC shooting in with recent shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, both [2] of which [3] he used to call for more gun control. In the case of the FRC shooting, however, the perpetrator was not following gun laws.
As Emily Miller of the Washington Times explained [4],
concealed carry is not legal in D.C., and outsiders cannot take their
guns into the city unless they are properly transporting them according
to federal transport laws. The shooter was obviously not law-abiding by
brandishing and using a firearm outside a place of residence.
"You have been incredible on this issue," Booker lauded Morgan, adding he was a "champion" for gun control on his extremely slanted show [5] the night of the Aurora shooting.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on August 15 on Piers Morgan Tonight at 9:09 p.m. EDT, is as follows:
PIERS MORGAN (to Mayor Corey
Booker): Just shifting gears slightly, let's move to the issue of guns.
Last time you came on my show you said the level of violence we have in
America is preventable and that most Americans, Republican and
Democrat, gun owners and not, actually agree on some common sense
solutions.
Now since then we've had the Aurora massacre, the Wisconsin Sikh temple
abomination. We've had only today the conservative Family Research
Council, a shooting that may well have been politically motivated. When
you take all these things into consideration, you must be disappointed
that the President isn't ordering some new form of gun control, aren't
you?