'Do forks make people fat?': Fox News host snubs gun reform after Maine shooting

Piers Morgan and Jesse Watters locked horns on Fox News while discussing the controversy over gun safety, one day following a mass murder event in Maine.

They appeared on a Fox panel with Morgan arguing for the U.S. to adopt more stringent restrictions banning certain firearms in the country while Watters retorted with a pro-gun "forks don't make you fat" refrain.

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For the Brit, the gun issue in the U.S. isn't going be solved unless there is serious retooling of the lingo.

"You've got to do more than you're doing," he said on the program. "I don't say gun control, I say gun safety."

He continued: "Gun safety is the way this should be defeated. How do you make it safer? How do you stop these loopholes?"

Morgan questioned why Maine is a state with so-called yellow flag loads while other states rely on red flag ones.

"In Maine they have yellow flags and not red flags -- Why? Why?"

"Why not have red flags all over the country?"

Morgan went on to suggest that there are hundreds of millions of guns in U.S. "circulation" and more than a million new guns sold every month leading him to believe: "this problem is going to get worse not better."

He then talked up his country across the pond for being mass shooting-free for five years while the U.S. has "god knows how many this year alone" and calling it "Groundhog Day."

Watters interjected: "As your friend, respectfully, we have these guns because of you," he said, referring to Colonial America swearing off the monarchy. "Because of your country. Because of your king."

Morgan agreed.

Watters continued: "And we haven't had that problem with the king since then."

And that's where Morgan compared certain concerns for American wellbeing when it comes to public health and the issue of guns being essentially a free-for-all.

"With respect I cannot buy in the United States of America a Kinder Surprise Chocolate Eggs," Morgan said. "They're banned."

"They're banned on safety grounds because the little toys inside them will choke some people."

Morgan recalled a British prime minister who attempted to bring some of these candies into the U.S. and had them seized.

"They confiscated them because they were a health hazard," Morgan said. "I simply say: you're a country with many freedoms and many regulations; how about regulating guns the way you do Kinder Surprise Chocolate Eggs."

Watters then pounced on that topic. "With respect, do forks make people fat?

Morgan said they did.

But Watters corrected him, saying, "No. Guns don't kill people.

Morgan disagreed. To which Watters then told him: "People kill people."