Matthew Feeney on Piers Morgan’s Confusion About Guns and Violence

Last Sunday it was announced that Piers
Morgan’s prime-time show on CNN was going to be canceled. The
British Morgan had become best known to his new American audience
for his anti-gun positions in the wake of the 2012 massacre at Sand
Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Indeed, it has
been pointed out that Morgan’s comments on guns may have
contributed to his shows sinking ratings. Matthew Feney
writes that he understand Morgan’s bemusement at Americans’
fascination with guns but that Morgan’s anti-gun crusade not
only demonstrates an understandable anthropological confusion
with the U.S., it also highlights a common misunderstanding of
America’s relationship with violence.

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