Piers Morgan on Lafayette Shooting: Americans Guilty of ‘Hypocrisy’ on Guns

BOULTON: “How significant do you think President Obama's comments are today, sort of vowing that he wished he concentrate on this more, and his plans to do so in his remaining time as president.”

MORGAN: “I think it is too little too late. The president has been in office now nearly eight years. He has had plenty of time to prioritize gun violence in America. It is only very recently that we’ve heard him talk this way. His last State of the Union address back in January which is his kind of statement of where America is, it did not in a 40-minute speech mention the word gun once. And yet, as he pointed out yesterday, since 9/11, less than 100 people have been killed by terrorists in the United States. But in that period, I calculated today, 450,000 people have been killed by guns in America. And you could say, where is the priority here? When we had the Ebola crisis, two people in America died of Ebola, they threw billions of dollars in the political kitchen sink to try and deal with it. But every single day 80 people in America get killed by guns, and we focus -- the global media -- on the more outrageous gun massacres such as movie theatres and churches, and so on. But every day, there is this constant slaughter. All I tried to do at CNN, all I tried to do since on Twitter and social media, is to try to get some sensible debate about how to make America a safer place to live while you have so many guns in circulation.”