Piers Morgan Gets Stupid, Then Petty, in Second Amendment Tweets

Piers Morgan is having a busy evening lecturing Americans on the Second Amendment tonight, and he’s doing a stellar job of making sure everyone knows not only is he ignorant about principles of American constitutional law, he’s also a colossal jerk.

Morgan posted several tweets dismissing gun rights as something that should be limited to hunting and displaying an astounding level of misinformation about guns and how they operate.

If you need an AR-15 to hunt animals, you’re such a bad shot you shouldn’t be allowed a gun in the first place. https://t.co/nFFWuIFhKc

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018

I know exactly how it works – I fired one on CNN. They’re light, easy to shoot & fire as fast as your finger can pull the trigger.
Let me expand my question: why does any civilian need ANY semi-automatic weapon? https://t.co/pdawtJp9W0

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018

Morgan told people to “try reading up on” the history of the Second Amendment, while interpreting the law completely backwards.

Have you studied the history of 2A? Try reading up on it. It was never intended to mean an individual’s right to bear arms – outside of a ‘well regulated militia’. https://t.co/Xb6w9gGAbd

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018

As many people tweeted at him, the Supreme Court of the United States explicitly held in District of Columbia v. Heller that “[t]he Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.”

Morgan also made sure to make it clear that he thinks “ALL semi-automatic guns should be banned,” ignorant of the fact that this would include virtually all handguns.

I think ALL semi-automatic guns should be banned, just as automatic guns are banned.
No civilian needs one except to kill a lot of people very quickly. https://t.co/vvC5XGuPVq

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018

Conservatives on Twitter attempted to educate him, but to no avail.

https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/980931365054046208

We literally fought a war so that British people would stop telling us how our rights should be defined, so chill. (And SCOTUS already rejected this argument anyway) https://t.co/rWVn4IzG6R

— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) April 3, 2018

Then people reminded Morgan of the time that Ben Shapiro — a Harvard Law alumnus, so he knows a thing or two about the law — came on his former show on CNN and absolutely schooled him on constitutional rights. During that discussion, Shapiro had brought with him a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution, which Morgan dismissed as “your little book.”

https://twitter.com/FrankelJeremy/status/980959672583774208

Morgan’s response was to launch a petty attack against Shapiro.

What was silly about it was the size, like its owner.
I prefer my copies of the Constitution, and my political pundits, to be substantial. https://t.co/97EmPjTU7p

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 3, 2018

Calm down little guy @benshapiro … it’s not my fault you’re so small.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 3, 2018

Shapiro might be younger and shorter than Morgan, but he’s the one standing tall here as Morgan continues to get the basic facts of American constitutional law, guns, and how to conduct a Twitter debate embarrassingly wrong.

Americans fought the Revolutionary War so that the British would stop telling us how our rights should be defined. We can’t make them shut up on Twitter, but Shapiro had this sharp response:

Seems like someone’s overcompensating for a rather small…set of inalienable rights. https://t.co/LokFak6fcF

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 3, 2018

UPDATE: Morgan continued to tweet, attacking Shapiro over his use of “inalienable” when the word used in the Declaration of Independence was “unalienable.” Never mind that multiple Presidents have used the word inalienable (including, as Shapiro points out, Jefferson, Lincoln, Clinton, and Obama) — the words literally mean the exact same thing and are interchangeable.

Psst, @piersmorgan. Let me help you out. Courtesy of @OxfordWords: https://t.co/hryglCtTRn pic.twitter.com/aLyvGgpSM5

— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) April 3, 2018

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