What did Alex Jones say last night? I am really curious...

[muriel_volestrangler]

36. "1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms"

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/07/us/piers-morgan-guns-debate/index.html

He said it's the global banks that are plotting to take away American guns. He offered to box Morgan. He screamed almost continuously, and, even when Morgan let him go on and on, and he finally came to an end, and he replied 'yes' to Morgan's "are you finished?", he then interrupted Morgan's next question and started ranting again.

Here's the context:

The answer is -- wait a minute, I have FBI crime statistics that come out of a year late, 2011, 20-plus percent crime drop in the last nine years, real violent crime because more guns means less crime. Britain took the guns 15, 16 years ago. Tripling of your overall violent crime. True, we have a higher gun violence level, but overall, muggings, stabbing, deaths -- those men raped that woman to India to death with an iron rod 4 feet long. You can't ban the iron rods. The guns, the iron rods, Piers, didn't do it, the tyrants did it. Hitler took the guns Stalin took the guns, Mao took the guns, Fidel Castro took the guns, Hugo Chavez took the guns, and I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms! It doesn't matter how many lemmings you get out there in the street begging for them to have their guns taken. We will not relinquish them. Do you understand?

The reality of British violent crime, from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW):

Figure 4 shows increases in the number of violent incidents from the early eighties to 1995. This was
followed by a period of steep decreases, with the latest estimates being 17 per cent lower than those
observed from the 2006/07 survey, and 51 per cent lower than in 1995. The CSEW estimated 3 in
every 100 adults were a victim of violent crime according to the 2011/12 survey, compared with 5 in
100 adults in 1995.

Although overall CSEW violence showed no statistically significant change since the previous year
the sub-category of violence with injury decreased by 15 per cent compared with 2010/11. However,
recent trends in violence with injury have been flat, and this fall represents a return to levels of the
2009/10 survey after higher estimates from the 2010/11 survey.

The level of violence against the person recorded by the police in 2011/12 showed a 7 per cent fall,
compared with the previous year (Tables 6a and 6b). Violence with and without injury decreased
by 8 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. This is consistent with the downward trend seen since
2006/07. The latest levels of violence against the person have fallen by 27 per cent from 2006/07,
and 10 per cent from 2002/03.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_273169.pdf

If you started this thread to get us to agree that Alex Jones is a lying sociopath, then we'll gladly agree with that.