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"Piers Morgan has become the subject of an online petition to see him deported from the US. The British talkshow host faced backlash from thousands of Americans after his anti-gun comments on his CNN programme.      Over 31,000 Americans have signed a petition to send him back to the UK, following his gun control remarks after the recent shooting in Connecticut. Morgan had interviewed Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt, in which he called him &amp;quot;a dangerous man&amp;quot;. White House petitions usually only require 25,000 signatures to get a response from the government. The petition states that Morgan &amp;quot;is engaged in a hostile attack against the US Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment&amp;quot;, which protects a US citizen&amp;#039;s right to own guns for self-defence purposes. &amp;quot;We demand that Mr Morgan be deported immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens,&amp;quot; the petition reads. Speaking about the petition, Morgan tweeted: &amp;quot;If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Wanting America to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines isn&amp;#039;t anti-constitutional - it&amp;#039;s called &amp;#039;common sense&amp;#039;.&amp;quot;   Talking about the Constitution&amp;#039;s guarantee of freedom of speech, he wrote: &amp;quot;Ironic US gun rights campaign to deport me for &amp;#039;attacking Second Amendment rights&amp;#039; - is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?&amp;quot; Morgan&amp;#039;s interview came five days after Adam Lanza killed 26 people including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Pratt said of tighter gun controls: &amp;quot;The problem occurs in those areas precisely where we have said &amp;#039;no guns&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Where the guns are allowed freely to be carried... we have very low murder rates. &amp;quot;We only have problems in our cities and, unhappily, in our schools, where people like you have been able to get laws put on the books that keep people from being able to defend themselves.&amp;quot; Morgan responded: &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re a very stupid man, aren&amp;#039;t you? &amp;quot;You have absolutely no coherent argument. You don&amp;#039;t actually give a damn about the gun murder rate in America.&amp;quot; He also called Pratt &amp;quot;a dangerous man espousing dangerous nonsense&amp;quot; and said: &amp;quot;You shame your country&amp;quot;. Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 and Jamie Foxx were among celebrities who recently appeared in a video about gun violence prevention, on the one-week anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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