Colbert Rips New Speaker’s Pathetic Maine Shooting Response
On Wednesday evening, a rifle-toting gunman murdered 18 people and wounded at least 13 more in Lewiston, Maine, when he opened fire at two separate locations—a bowling alley, followed by a bar. A manhunt is still underway for 40-year-old suspect Robert Card, a trained firearms instructor with the U.S. Army Reserve who, just this summer, spent two weeks in a mental hospital after reporting that he was hearing voices and threatening to shoot up a military base.
While the other late-night talk show hosts stuck to poking fun at new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert took his rebuke of the Louisiana congressman to a whole other level.
“Now, we know the arguments,” Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have to tragedies such as this. “Some people are going to say this is a mental health issue. Others are going to say it’s a gun issue. But there’s no reason it can’t be both.”
I'm not advocating for cars, but I'm pretty sure cars are significantly more used than guns, require a license to operate, and are not built to kill people (not entirely sure about SUVs but still).
Guns aren't built to kill people. Even the military has guns whose primary purpose isn't killing people.
.....This may be the single stupidest fucking thing I have ever seen someone post on the internet.
Literally the PRIMARY purpose of firearms from their inception was to kill. I don't even understand how you can have made it this far through life and be this unintelligent or disingenuous.
Not always people though. The vast majority of guns never even shoot at a person.
Just stop. You've embarrassed yourself enough already.
In that case, every gun should be the subject of an urgent product recall to address a serious malfunction that results in them killing multiple people every day.
You lie about as well as a toddler does. Just stick to the talking points the gun lobby gives you.