Piers Morgan falsely claims UCLA shooter used a ‘machine gun’

Joe NewbyJune 2, 2016

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Piers Morgan, the British subject and former Second Amendment-hating CNN talking head, once again displayed his rank ignorance on Twitter regarding the issue of guns when he falsely claimed in a tweet that former Ph.D student Mainak Sarkar used a machine gun when he killed his professor and himself at UCLA.

GUNS IN AMERICA..
He was angry over his grades, so he took a machine gun to campus & shot dead his teacher. https://t.co/KWoMB0fiQJ

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

Dana Loesch, however, wasn’t having it and fired back:

For crying out loud. He didn't have a "machine gun." It was a 9mm. https://t.co/SFERPMJPxA https://t.co/Boa3MiDak5

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Yes

In other words, the weapon used was a semi-automatic pistol, not a machine gun. But Morgan, known to many conservatives as “Musket Morgan,” refused to be educated on the issue.

Ah, so it can only fire up to 200 rounds a minute?
How silly of me, changes everything!
https://t.co/NsBx1N5JPQ

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

Actually, the pistol will fire as many times as the shooter can pull the trigger and reload. It would also depend somewhat on how strong the shooter’s hand is, how much recoil the pistol produces, etc.

Loesch tried to get this across to Morgan, but to no avail.

He fired three rounds. What are you even talking about. https://t.co/hK8dKYM4mc

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

Others tried to enlighten “Musket”:

https://twitter.com/mattlewis2u/status/738421500953268224

@DLoesch 200 rounds a minute??? I can't do that with my 9mm. I want that gun.

— BurghFeeder (@BurghFeeder) June 2, 2016

Nobody can pull the trigger that fast, nobody

— Jim Settles (@FriedFish2) June 2, 2016

https://twitter.com/ArmyActor/status/738396974374916098

No, because he’s (cue melodramatic fanfare) PIERS MORGAN, holder of all knowledge real and imagined… And he hates the Second Amendment, which is all that matters.

https://twitter.com/TexasYankee001/status/738394820964716544

Good question. But Musket knows all, you see, because he knows someone in the military.

Mate, my brother's a British Army officer & so were my brother-law, uncle & grandfather. I know how firearms work. https://t.co/FTOLdgpN3t

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

Apparently not so much, if he doesn’t know the difference between a semi-automatic pistol and a machine gun. And doesn’t care to know the difference.

Besides, the reader should keep in mind that Morgan once called for 100 blind people to shoot at conservative pundits despite falsely claiming the NRA is made up of assassins. So it’s not like he hates gun ownership per se, it’s the type of people who support the right to keep and bear arms…

I love how American gun nuts make such a distinction between automatic & semi-automatic guns.
Both can kill 200+ people a minute.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

There’s actually a very big difference, Morgan.

Loesch let him have with both barrels, so to speak…

Translated: "I hate being called out on my lack of knowledge regarding American law and basic firearm education." https://t.co/5PYxLC90KZ

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

Bingo.

One person observed:

@DLoesch why does everyone ignore that California has very strict gun laws. The shooter ignored them because he is a criminal

— JTT (@joett78902) June 2, 2016

Not only that, but as Dave Workman noted earlier today, the UCLA shooting proves California’s strict gun control doesn’t work. Nevertheless, state lawmakers want even more gun control because the laws already on the books are working so well…

And by the way, isn’t UCLA a gun-free zone? Interesting that the vast majority of shootings take place in gun-free zones…

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