‘Guns Do Kill People’: Piers Morgan Confronts Fox Co-Hosts, ‘You’ve Gotta Do Something More to Stop This’

Piers Morgan reacted to Wednesday night’s mass shooting in Maine by emphatically telling Fox News’ Jesse Watters and other co-hosts, “Guns do kill people.”

“When Americans hear the word ‘control,’ they think instinctively, ‘federal government control,’ and it alienates any chance of any compromise. ‘Gun safety’ is the way this should be debated,” Morgan said on Thursday’s The Five, adding:

How do you make it safer? How do you stop these loopholes, these guys slipping through the net? This is obviously a catastrophic failure. In Maine, they have yellow flags, not red flags. Why? Why? Why don’t you just have a red flag system all over the country? You have 400 million-plus guns in circulation, a million new guns are sold every month in America.

This problem’s gonna get worse, not better. And at some point, as your friend, you know, the great ally, I simply say you’ve got to do something more to stop this. You can’t keep having the Groundhog Day of these people with these semiautomatic rifles going into civilian areas and gunning people to pieces. Can you?

“As your friend, respectfully. We have these guns because of you,” Watters responded. “Because of your country and your king. And we haven’t had that problem since then. Respectfully, as your friend.”

“I know, I know” Morgan answered, before giving an example about how Kinder Joy chocolate eggs are banned in the United States “on safety grounds” but guns aren’t.

The two then engaged in a game of tit-for-tat:

WATTERS: With respect, do forks make people fat?

MORGAN: Yeah.

WATTERS: Ok. No.

MORGAN: Well they do don’t they?

WATTERS:  Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Forks don’t make you fat.

MORGAN: Guns do kill people.

WATTERS: Forks don’t make you fat.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.