Piers Morgan Rips America for ‘Disgusting’ Gun Culture After Charleston Church Shooting
Piers Morgan expressed his outrage over the church shooting in Charleston on Thursday, tweeting, “Such a sickening outrage. Wake up America, your gun culture is disgusting.”
The British journalist did not stop there, posting a number of tweets from his official account critical of America’s fascination with firearms and the country’s longstanding history of gun violence.
“NRA logic: if only every young person in that bible study class had been armed with a gun too, it wouldn’t have happened,” Morgan wrote. “The #Charleston murderer was given a gun by his father as a 21st birthday gift in April. He used it to kill 9 people.”
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Morgan continued his criticism of the NRA, writing, “Where are you today @NRA? Want to tell us the bible group should have all had guns too?”
Morgan also tweeted a picture of suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof alongside Adam Lanza, the man who infamously killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.
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“PREDICTION: Gun sales will soar in South Carolina this week. It’s America’s only response to mass shootings: more guns,” Morgan also wrote.
On Wednesday night, a white man entered the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. He reportedly sat in on a prayer meeting for an hour before opening fire, killing nine people including a state senator.
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