What hope is there?

Bit of a theme to the titles of this year's posts so far, but this follows on from my last post of 2012. A saw the link to this on Twitter:

In the United States, the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech, among other things. In the aftermath of the shootings at Sandy Hook, Piers Morgan, of whom I am not a fan, exercised this right to free speech and suggested that guns should be banned, as they have been in Britain. As a result of this, Alex Jones, who is described in his Wikipedia entry as a "talk radio host, actor and filmmaker", exercised his right to free speech by initiating a petition to have Piers Morgan deported.

In an extremely clever move by Mr Morgan, he invited Mr Jones on to his show to debate gun crime. The ignorant, at times incomprehensible and completely disjointed rant by Mr Jones is a sight to behold.

This man is no less extreme than the fundamentalist preachers, of whatever belief, and as long as there are people like him in America, which there always will be due to that First Amendment, there will be people able to gain access to weapons with which to kill innocent adults and children.

I, for one, am glad that I live in the "police state" of Great Britain.