It is often believed that smarmy British twit Piers Morgan was fired from CNN because his condescending views on gun control were deeply offensive to Americans, but I have another theory: I think he was shit-canned because his anti-gun rants were so insane the left feared he would hurt their cause and make them all look like fools. Well, bigger fools. I present exhibit A in my theory which has Morgan arguing that guns are the exact same thing as Big Macs. Not Mac-10’s, hamburgers.
Over the weekend a church in Florida posted a sign letting maniacs know they are not a soft-target, which of course sent Morgan into a self-righteous tizzy.
This is not a sick joke.
This is America’s response to the recent mass shooting in a church. pic.twitter.com/5lZ77TtvEY— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 19, 2017
That prompted an argument with conservative writer Ben Shapiro, which you can observe below:
Seems like a pretty good deterrent tbh https://t.co/4xMHT8TswG
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
So if one member of the congregation was obese, you'd combat it by giving every other member a Big Mac? https://t.co/8zi7FhPoAN
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 20, 2017
This is perhaps the worst analogy I have ever seen. One member’s obesity doesn’t make others obese, nor can that member’s obesity be prevented by others’ Big Macs. https://t.co/vThrGDgUWP
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
What if they all give their Big Macs to the obese member? To defend himself from obesity? https://t.co/DnogdDrjL6
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 20, 2017
You seem to be operating under the sunk cost fallacy. Let this analogy go, Piers. It's a complete fail. https://t.co/EmTvrm2ieh
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
Mate, it’s the perfect analogy: more Big Macs don’t stop obesity just as more guns don’t stop gun deaths. https://t.co/ysxZe78saf
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 20, 2017
My God, Piers. My God. No, me eating a hamburger can't stop you from getting obese. But me having a gun could stop you from shooting me. https://t.co/LPUhtJVRgq
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
But you having a gun could mean you.. shoot me! Do you see? https://t.co/6IxknkP3zW
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 20, 2017
You are so intensely bad at this. No, this does not follow at all. https://t.co/Oh93BioYQF
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 20, 2017
This really is the single dumbest gun analogy of all time. It beats comparing firearms to cars, abortion, or anything else liberals like to throw in by a mile. Obesity is not instantly fatal like getting shot, nor are people suddenly overweight from a onetime Big Mac binge. Mad men don’t run into churches and make people eat Big Macs until they get fat and die from heart disease. There is no Constitutional right to keep and bear Big Macs, Whoppers, or Baconators.
Nobody is trying to argue that the only thing that stops obesity is eating more unhealthy food because that is preposterous. The only thing ridiculous about the statement “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” is thinking that it is untrue as Morgan believes. When a lunatic opens fire on a group of innocent people one of two things stops him: the killer runs out of ammo or somebody shoots his crazy ass.
What Morgan is saying is that in a mass shooting situation armed good guys are useless to stop the killing so law-abiding people might as well disarm. I guess he thinks his smug sense of self-importance is all that is really needed to survive a shooting.
(First reported by the DownTrend) https://downtrend.com/71superb/piers-morgan-argues-that-guns-are-the-same-thing-as-big-macs (November 20, 2017)
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