Piers Morgan appeared on CNN’s Starting Point Friday, where...[he] pointed to Japan as the nation with the “most stringent gun control of any country of the rich, so-called civilized countries of the world,” and one with “very little gun crime.” Compare this, he continued, to the U.S., which “now has as many guns as it is has people,” and has something between 10,000 and 12,000 gun murders a year...

“I totally respect the right to bear arms,” Morgan said later on in the segment. “I just dispute that when the founding fathers wrote the constitution originally, when they did this, they did not imagine that a disturbed young man would be able to buy a high-powered assault weapon or thousands of rounds of ammunition on the internet. These things never entered their heads. They were talking about the musket era.”