Morgan ended his final show with a long-winded rant about American gun laws — which he has adamantly spoken out against.

“And also I want to thank you all for watching, even those who implacably disagreed with me, or just found my funny accent annoying,” he said. “Regular viewers will know that the issue of gun control has been a consistent and often very controversial part of this show. And I want to say something more about that before I bow out.”

The CNN host, whose show ended after three years, continued, telling viewers he doesn’t believe civilians should be able to carry firearms, leaving that right, instead, to members of the military.

“The vast majority of Americans I met are decent, hardworking, thoroughly dependable people. As my brother, a British army colonel says, you always want an American next to you in the trench when the going gets tough,” Morgan said. “But that’s where I think guns belong, on a military battlefield, in the hands of highly trained men and women, fighting for democracy and freedom, not in the hands of civilians.”

An adamant opponent of the Second Amendment, Morgan lamented politicians’ inability to pass common sense gun control, especially after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that left 26 people dead.

“Now, I assumed that after 70 people were shot in a movie theater, and then just a few months later, 20 first-graders were murdered with an assault rifle in an elementary school, that the absurd gun laws in this country would change, but nothing has happened,” he said. “The gun lobby in America, led by the NRA, has bullied this nation’s politicians into cowardly, supine silence. ”

The CNN host has come under fire from Second Amendment proponents for being anti-American and trying to infringe on the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution, yet Morgan refused to apologize for his anti-gun stance.

He told viewers that “more guns doesn’t mean less crime” and argued that, instead, it means “more gun violence, more death and more profits for the gun manufacturers.”

“I am so pro-American, I want more of you to stay alive,” he said. “But I’ve made my point. I’ve given it a tremendous whack. Now it’s down to you. It is your country. These are your gun laws. And the senseless slaughter will only end when enough Americans stand together and cry, enough.”

Watch Morgan’s farewell below.