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The petition to deport Piers Morgan

A petition calling on President Obama to deport CNN anchor Piers Morgan from the United States has passed the 25,000-signature threshold needed to require a response from the White House.

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The petition against Morgan is based on his criticism of gun advocates in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting, which the authors describe as an attack on the Second Amendment, and therefore as an attempt to "undermine the Bill of Rights."

"British Citizen and CNN television host Piers Morgan is engaged in a hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution by targeting the Second Amendment," the authors write. "We demand that Mr. Morgan be deported immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens."

Last Tuesday, Morgan interviewed Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners for America, and called him "dangerous," "stupid," and "an idiot." The next night he told John Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime that he needed "to stop repeating a blatant lie about what happens in other countries."