‘Stupid’ gun owners go wild

A popular presenter at CNN, Piers Morgan, is currently the subject of a petition for deportation from the US.

Wondering what his crime is?

Well, the talk show host was interviewing the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, an organisation that defends ownership of gun by individuals, when he lost his cool.

The recent indiscriminate shooting and killing of scores of children in the US sparked a heated national debate over gun ownership.

There emerged a growing number of voices in favour of tougher gun controls.

Ever the sturdy lobbyist group, the Gun Owners of America has been standing their grounds against such moves.

Morgan, while interviewing the head of this organisation, referred to him as an “unbelievably stupid man” for refusing to see reason and accept the ills of lack of gun control.

"You have absolutely no coherent argument. You don't actually give a damn about the gun murder rate in America," the clearly upset journalist charged at his interviewee.

Those comments angered some zealously arrogant people who went on a signature searching spree for a petition seeking the removal of the British journalist from the US.

Now, I have learnt that as a journalist, you try not to put yourself in the story you are doing. This is mostly to ensure objectivity in reportage.

But practicing for over five years, I very well know how difficult it is to always adhere to this principle.

Many a times you meet news makers as stupid as someone who goes about arguing in favour of gun use even in the face of strings of massacres of innocent people as a result of lack of gun control. Sometimes such people pose threat to you the journalist, and in such situations it takes only saints to manage to pretend to be unconcerned.

Those behind the petition for Journalist Pierce Morgan`s deportation are arguing that he "is engaged in a hostile attack against the US Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment".

Obviously, they will have to have a ground to make a case, however dumb it might sound.

I can`t help but wonder, however, how brining some “unbelievably stupid man” to his senses can be an attack on the Second Amendment?

According to reports, some 59,000 signatures have been gathered so far.

Piers Morgan

I have no idea how many signatures are needed to effect such a move. But it is believed that 25,000 signatures is normally needed to get a response from the White House on such matter. And then what?

But what I know for certain is that once again, America`s laws are under test, serious test!

Morgan is himself said to be unconcerned though about calls for his deportation.

He even jokingly twitted that "If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?"

How I wish Sierra Leone was in a position to host him.

Meanwhile, as the signature search for his banishment entered its third day on Tuesday, another shooting was reported, which took the lives of two innocent Americans.

They were fire-fighters helping to put out a fire apparently set by the killer to lure them into his house for the slaughter.

How many more lives have to be lost?

I am really eager to see what the Second Amendment has for the voice of millions of Americans who agree with Piers Morgan`s position, as against under a hundred thousand people who want his head for fallibly making his opposition known about the senseless killing of innocent Americans.