Not backing down from a fight or allowing NRA supporters to reel off their talking points, CNN's Piers Morgan has adopted the tragedy in Connecticut as a rally cry to push for real change with gun sales in the USA. In response to the horrific massacre in Newtown, Conn., Morgan has steadily broadcasted his opinion and challenges to pro gun guests. Last Friday saw him interview Steve Dulan of the Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-n.Y.), Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and gun-rights advocate John Lott. Tonight he interviewed Cade Courtley, Dr. Oz and Larry Pratt. A partial transcript of Piers incendiary interview with Pratt, courtesy of newsbusters.org: Morgan:...
- 12/19/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Piers Morgan got into a fiery dispute with gun advocates in a broadcast of Piers Morgan Tonight devoted to Friday's mass-shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, making for riveting TV. The talk show host grew irate and spoke frequently over his guests, gun advocate and author John Lott and Steve Dulan from the Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners. Both argued that the only way to curb gun violence in the U.S. is for restrictions towards gun ownership being loosened, not tightened. Friday's rampage, which took 27 lives -- 20 of which were small children -- came less than 24
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- 12/15/2012
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Piers Morgan has been one of the most vocal pundits in the past few years calling for stricter gun control laws in the United States, and has clashed a number of times with gun rights activists. Tonight Morgan appeared to have had it with the pro-gun arguments. He confronted gun advocate John Lott on his show last night and demanded to know what, after shootings at a movie theater and a house of worship and an elementary school all in the same year, will finally get the gun rights crowd to accept that the nation needs more gun control laws.
- 12/15/2012
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
One day after NFL player Jovan Belcher murdered the mother of his 3-month-old daughter and took his own life in the parking lot of the team’s practice facility, his Kansas City Chiefs took the field to play the Carolina Panthers, winning 27-21. Clearly, though, the mourning team’s victory was not the main story, as teammates, fans, and the media tried to make sense of the tragedy.
It was so awful that Bob Costas used his powerful perch during halftime of NBC’s primetime broadcast last night to bring attention to a gun-culture that he says makes such tragedies all too common.
It was so awful that Bob Costas used his powerful perch during halftime of NBC’s primetime broadcast last night to bring attention to a gun-culture that he says makes such tragedies all too common.
- 12/3/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
Piers Morgan hosted a debate on his CNN show tonight over gun control in the United States in the context of last Friday's shootings in Aurora, Colorado. The debate ended up devolving into a shouting match between Morgan and anti-gun control academic John Lott Jr., with Morgan at one point yelling "You're not giving me a sensible answer!" and fellow guest Alan Dershowitz repeatedly scolding Lott for his "junk science."...
- 7/24/2012
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
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