On
Wednesday, the White House responded to the highly-publicized petition to its
website regarding Piers Morgan’s deportation as requested by more than 100,000
signatures of U.S. citizens.
The White House
defended Piers Morgan’s freedom of speech regarding his past and current
unpopular comments about gun control in the United States.
With this
somewhat-vindication to his freedom of speech, Piers Morgan - the host of “Piers
Morgan Tonight” on cable television - will not be forced to return to his
homeland of the United Kingdom for criticizing America's Second
Amendment.
Prior to the
petition being written last month, conservative talk show host Morgan was a
harsh critic of the United States’ gun policies. He voiced his strong opinions
against the nation’s gun laws after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut at
Sandy Hook Elementary School which occurred on Dec. 14,
2012.
The White House
defended Piers Morgan in a press release titled “When Discussing the Second
Amendment, Keep the First in Mind Too”.
As a follow-up
to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s message in which he foreshadowed a
victory for Morgan, on Wednesday Jay Carney wrote “Let’s not let arguments over
the Constitution’s Second Amendment violate the spirit of its First”. The
Examiner
In 2011 - the
latest year for which detailed statistics are available - there were 12,664
murders in the U.S. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms. The
Guardian The U.S. has the
highest gun ownership rate in the world - there are 89 guns for every 100
Americans, compared to 6 in England and Wales. The number of
FBI background checks required for Americans buying guns set a record in
December. The FBI said it recorded 2.78 million background checks during the
month, surpassing the mark set in November of 2.01 million checks - about a 39
percent rise. Chicago Tribune People who carry
guns are far likelier to get shot - and killed - than those who are unarmed,
according to a 2009 study of shooting victims in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Over a million
people have been killed with guns in the United States since 1968, when Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.
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