Guns in America !!!!

Primer: For those that don't know, Piers Morgan is a relatively new CNN personality that hosts a 1 hour nightly news opinion program at 8:00 p.m. central that competes directly with Sean Hannity of Fox News.  He has been an outspoken advocate of major gun restrictions in the United States even before the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and has been absolutely foaming at the mouth ever since, even airing a 1 hour special on the topic.

Alex Jones on the other hand is an anti-government crusader that hes never met a conspiracy theory he didn't love.  He got his start on Austin public-access cable where he would conduct "investigations" and generally just freak people out during his interviews.  There is a really great one of him dressed as the Grim Reaper screaming into a megaphone outside of the Governor's Mansion in Austin and one where he gets arrested after refusing to give his thumbprint when renewing his Texas Driver's license.  He currently has a 3 hour syndicated daily radio show and runs the www.infowars.com website. (Infowars is always worth a good 20-30 minute look through).  This is probably his best rant:

Last night on Piers Morgan:

Jones may be a wee bit unstable as you could probably tell if you were able to get to the part where Jones accused Morgan of being a "hatchet man for the New World Order" (Tell us what you really think !!), various other bizarre ramblings, including one against the prescription drug companies and finally offering to fight Morgan with red, white and blue boxing gloves.

Here is what is really happening.  Morgan intentionally brought on someone who comes across as a complete lunatic to oppose him not to have a debate or try to prove a point, he did it send the message that if you a pro-gun then you are on the same side as this maniac talking about revolutions and government conspiracies and that no sane person could possibly agree with him. Fox News really does this trick well when they invite liberals to defend their positions, I distinctly remember a woman on a birth control panel on Hannity suggest that it was "immoral for anyone to reproduce" given the damage that we are doing to the world. Keep an eye out for this trick, it's used far more than you might think.

UPDATE: Morgan just did an interview with Politico:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/exclusive-piers-morgan-discusses-alex-jones-153617.html

Highlights:

"He was the best advertisement for gun control you could wish for," Morgan told POLITICO.

"That kind of vitriol, hatred, and zealotry is really quite scary. I didn't feel threatened by him, but I'm concerned that someone like him has that level of influence," Morgan said. "There's got to be a level of discourse that can rise above what happened last night. It was undignified, unedifying."

Morgan said he anticipated such a performance: "I knew what we were going to be getting into with him," he said. "I know about his background and his reputation, so I know he's kind of shock jock."
But Jones is also influential among conservatives, Morgan said, which is why he had him on CNN.

"He said last night that his show now airs in 140 networks, he has a huge online presence -- every day his message gets sent out to millions of Americans," Morgan said. "Through vitriol and rhetoric he is able to spur heavy gun sales and ammunition sales. He works off of fear.