Kyle Kashuv Confronts Piers Morgan On London’s Skyrocketing Murder Rates

Early Easter morning, authorities found a young man in London with a fatal stab wound. As noted by the Daily Mail, that’s the “12th murder to occur in 19 days” in the city, and that makes it official. London’s murder rates have surpassed New York City’s.

The city has a major stabbing problem. Thirty-one people have been stabbed within the city this year alone.

Piers Morgan is, understandably, not OK with all of this news.

Very disturbing.
This is happening on YOUR watch, Mr Mayor @SadiqKhan – what are you going to do about it? https://t.co/yUT3YaAYzN

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 1, 2018

I’ll tell you what Khan’s doing. He’s going after violent YouTube videos. OBVIOUSLY, that explains the stabbings.

“Internet giants have policies in place around violent content, but they do not go far enough,” Khan stated last year. “Google, YouTube and other platforms have a responsibility to the millions of young people using their sites every day, and it is vital that they toughen up their guidelines, remove breaches immediately and work with partners to help ensure such horrific videos do not reappear. Lives could depend on it.”

I’m deeply concerned about the rise in knife crime. Internet giants must toughen guidelines & remove violent videos https://t.co/PlnLGfHUbZ

— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) August 7, 2017

Are you telling me that’s not good enough?!

Of course it’s not. Khan never banned assault knives. That’s why this is happening. Duh.

I kid, I kid. But I can’t help but troll, because Piers Morgan doesn’t waste a second to  blame violence in America on “assault weapons.” Let’s tango.

Piers, I have the answer… #BanAssaultKnives they’re weapons of war

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

Demonstrating absurdity by being absurd– one of my favorite tactics!

But Piers, gun control totally worked and made everyone safer! (It didn’t because criminals bought knives) https://t.co/w0Olon6AW7

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

Kyle, why did America ban automatic weapons if it’s only about the people not the guns? https://t.co/TORHpQWcyl

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 1, 2018

Interesting that Piers had to jump to something else completely in order to make his point. (Even though he didn’t make his point. He proved that the AR-15s he’s so afraid of AREN’T THE PROBLEM.)

Machine guns are banned because we are allowed to balance the risks of members of the general public having access to rare weapons with extreme capacity to do damage. But the AR-15 doesn’t fall into that category because it is owned by tens of… https://t.co/zsHaL3b4CM

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

millions of Americans, and has not done nearly as much damage as handguns, e.g.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

And the reason why the ban “worked” is because people don’t use them because they’re expensive, unwieldy, and ineffective. If someone tried a mass shooting with a machine gun it would not be effective. You’d use about ten rounds per person and run out within seconds.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

At the Bataclan, ISIS switched to semi.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

Also, I am aware that machine guns aren’t fully banned – they’re just heavily regulated. My point of this thread was to show that even in @piersmorgan‘s proposed scenario his comparison is irrelevant.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018

And he demonstrated just that.

Arbitrarily attaching the word “assault” to objects and demanding to ban them– that’s NOT the answer. London’s skyrocketing murder rates prove that.

h/t IJR