{"id":18894,"date":"2013-01-08T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/01\/08\/piers-morgan-alex-jones-gun-control-cnn_n_2429847.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP"},"modified":"2013-01-08T09:50:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:50:28","slug":"the-revolution-will-come-if-you-take-our-guns-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-revolution-will-come-if-you-take-our-guns-piers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Revolution Will Come If You Take Our Guns, Piers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Megabanks, China, &#8220;murder pills&#8221;, communists, the US government and Piers Morgan are all conspiring to take away America&#8217;s guns in order to destroy its people &#8211; according to a bizarre pro-gun rant by radio shock jock Alex Jones on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who runs Infowars, began the petition to deport Morgan for his anti-gun campaigning in the wake of the massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the debate, Jones roared over the top of Morgan, blaming &#8220;suicide and murder pills&#8221; and &#8220;megabanks who control the planet&#8221; for the violence in America, and claiming the UK had a higher violent crime rate since the government &#8220;took away the guns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"piers morgan\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/930811\/thumbs\/o-PIERS-MORGAN-570.jpg?8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Piers Morgan is an avid campaigner for gun control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morgan pointed out the UK&#8217;s annual gun murder rate of 35, compared to more than 11,000 deaths caused each year by guns in the States, but Jones said he was unconcerned by Morgan&#8217;s &#8220;little factoids&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve taken everybody&#8217;s guns, but the Swiss and the American people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;True, we have more gun violence, but you have more muggings, deaths, stabbings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That woman [in India] was raped to death with a four-feet iron rod, you can&#8217;t ban the iron rods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hitler took the guns, Stalin took the guns, Mao took the guns, Castro took the guns, Chavez took the guns and I&#8217;m here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our guns!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter how many lemmings you get out their on the street, begging you to take their guns! We will not relinquish them, do you understand?!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The republic will rise again if you try to take our guns!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"c19\"><span class=\"c16\"><span class=\"c11\"><\/span> <span class=\"c15\"> <strong><\/strong> <span class=\"c14\"><br \/>Piers Morgan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c17\">Comforting that  personally owns 50 firearms, isn&#8217;t it&#8230;..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blaming many of the murders on &#8220;gangbang violence&#8221; and drugs like Prozac, Jones yelled: &#8220;The US number one killer is suicide because they give people mass murder pills. I want to blame the real culprit! Suicide pills! Mass murder pills!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones was skewered by Morgan in the second half of the debate on his views on 9\/11, which he believes was a plot by the military and the US government. Answering Morgan in a mocking, high-pitched, faux British accent, Jones said: &#8220;Hitler burnt down his own Reichstag didn&#8217;t he?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"alex jones\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/930810\/thumbs\/o-ALEX-JONES-570.jpg?8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shock jock Alex Jones, who was on Morgan&#8217;s show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jones also took Morgan to task for his editorship of the Daily Mirror and attempted to link him to the News International hacking scandal. He said: &#8220;They arrest people in England if they defend themselves, that\u2019s on record. My God, you have a total police state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is fleeing the country because \u2013 you\u2019ve had to flee, bud. Yeah, you fled here. Why don\u2019t you go back and face the charges for the hacking scandal?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did you get fired from the Daily Mirror for putting out fake stories?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think you\u2019re a tough guy? Have me back with a boxing ring and I\u2019ll wear red, white, and blue, and you\u2019ll wear your Jolly Roger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the interview on Piers Morgan tonight, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fblogs%2Fmedia%2F2013%2F01%2Fwhite-house-responds-to-deport-piers-morgan-petition-153578.html%23.UOuJl2onGEw.twitter\" >Politco reported the White House&#8217;s response to the petition<\/a>, which gained more than 100,000 signatures, well over the 25,000 required to warrant an official White House response.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Jay Carney said: &#8220;The White House responds to all petitions that cross the threshold and we will respond to this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime, it is worth remembering that the freedom of expression is a bedrock principle in our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Megabanks, China, &#8220;murder pills&#8221;, communists, the US government and Piers Morgan are all conspiring to take away America&#8217;s guns in order to destroy its people &#8211; according to a bizarre pro-gun rant by radio shock jock Alex Jones on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who runs Infowars, began the petition to deport Morgan for his anti-gun campaigning in the wake of the massacre of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the debate, Jones roared over the top of Morgan, blaming &#8220;suicide and murder pills&#8221; and &#8220;megabanks who control the planet&#8221; for the violence in America, and claiming the UK had a higher violent crime rate since the government &#8220;took away the guns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"piers morgan\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/930811\/thumbs\/o-PIERS-MORGAN-570.jpg?8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Piers Morgan is an avid campaigner for gun control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Morgan pointed out the UK&#8217;s annual gun murder rate of 35, compared to more than 11,000 deaths caused each year by guns in the States, but Jones said he was unconcerned by Morgan&#8217;s &#8220;little factoids&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve taken everybody&#8217;s guns, but the Swiss and the American people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;True, we have more gun violence, but you have more muggings, deaths, stabbings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That woman [in India] was raped to death with a four-feet iron rod, you can&#8217;t ban the iron rods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hitler took the guns, Stalin took the guns, Mao took the guns, Castro took the guns, Chavez took the guns and I&#8217;m here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our guns!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter how many lemmings you get out their on the street, begging you to take their guns! We will not relinquish them, do you understand?!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The republic will rise again if you try to take our guns!&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<span><span><\/span> <span> <strong><\/strong> <span><br \/>Piers Morgan<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Comforting that  personally owns 50 firearms, isn&#8217;t it&#8230;..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blaming many of the murders on &#8220;gangbang violence&#8221; and drugs like Prozac, Jones yelled: &#8220;The US number one killer is suicide because they give people mass murder pills. I want to blame the real culprit! Suicide pills! Mass murder pills!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones was skewered by Morgan in the second half of the debate on his views on 9\/11, which he believes was a plot by the military and the US government. Answering Morgan in a mocking, high-pitched, faux British accent, Jones said: &#8220;Hitler burnt down his own Reichstag didn&#8217;t he?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"alex jones\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/930810\/thumbs\/o-ALEX-JONES-570.jpg?8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shock jock Alex Jones, who was on Morgan&#8217;s show<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jones also took Morgan to task for his editorship of the Daily Mirror and attempted to link him to the News International hacking scandal. He said: &#8220;They arrest people in England if they defend themselves, that&rsquo;s on record. My God, you have a total police state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is fleeing the country because &mdash; you&rsquo;ve had to flee, bud. Yeah, you fled here. Why don&rsquo;t you go back and face the charges for the hacking scandal?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did you get fired from the Daily Mirror for putting out fake stories?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think you&rsquo;re a tough guy? Have me back with a boxing ring and I&rsquo;ll wear red, white, and blue, and you&rsquo;ll wear your Jolly Roger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the interview on Piers Morgan tonight, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fblogs%2Fmedia%2F2013%2F01%2Fwhite-house-responds-to-deport-piers-morgan-petition-153578.html%23.UOuJl2onGEw.twitter\" target=\"_hplink\">Politco reported the White House&#8217;s response to the petition<\/a>, which gained more than 100,000 signatures, well over the 25,000 required to warrant an official White House response.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesman Jay Carney said: &#8220;The White House responds to all petitions that cross the threshold and we will respond to this one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime, it is worth remembering that the freedom of expression is a bedrock principle in our democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}