Alan Dershowitz: “What we’re trying to do is limit the access of guns to people who don’t need them”

Last night “Piers Morgan Tonight” continued coverage of the recent tragedies in both Colorado and Wisconsin, and furthering the issue of gun control.

Joining Piers Morgan in advance of his forthcoming book “Gun Guys: A Road Trip,” author Dan Baum reveals details of his research, making the case that tougher firearm laws won’t solve the problem:

“I just spent two years, driving 15,000 miles around the country, talking to gun owners. And what I picked up was gun owners identified very strongly with their guns,” says the man who describes himself as a Liberal Democrat.

“When you come along, somebody like Mr. [Alan] Dershowitz, who does not look to me like a big gun guy,” Baum continues. “He comes along and tells your ordinary law-abiding gun owner ‘You can’t be trusted with this kind of gun’… the reaction is ‘Well, to hell with you.'”

Mr. Dershowitz responds, suggesting the issue of firearms in America is based on more than simply a person’s appearance:

“I like the fact that your guests can tell who a gun owner is, by just by looking at him, and he can tell by looking at me, by hearing my name, by knowing what city I live in, whether I’m a kind of gun guy or not,” says the man who last visited the show on July 20th, the evening of the deadly Aurora, CO movie theater shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people and injured 58 others.