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Colbert Rips New Speaker’s Pathetic Maine Shooting Response (www.thedailybeast.com)

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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.”

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[-] xhieron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In the civilized world, you have to justify your need for a gun with the presence of the aforementioned varmints. No yard, no varmints, no gun.

No one needs a machine gun to hunt deer, and no one needs a handgun. Handguns are lousy for self defense ("buy a shotgun", to quote the President). All they're good for is killing humans and making gun shareholders richer.

And no gun is going to help you if the government comes for you either. The cops are coming with tear gas, body armor, and tanks, and most importantly there's no amount of cops you can kill that will get them to leave you alone.

All of the justifiable bases for having a gun are solved with a double barrel shotgun. Even if you're being mauled by a bear, if two rounds of buckshot don't stop it, you weren't gonna make it anyway.

License shotguns like cars and get rid of everything else. "Only criminals will have guns!" That's what your shotgun is for. And if the criminals are getting locked up for having mobile armories, even better. We can replace the current prison population of black drug users with actual gangsters.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

In the civilized world, you have to justify your need for a gun with the presence of the aforementioned varmints. No yard, no varmints, no gun.

so gun ownership should only be allowed for people who own property?

[-] xhieron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, and while we're at it, yes to any other bad faith strawman argument you've got. GTFO with that bullshit.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net -4 points 1 year ago

In the civilized world, you have to justify your need for a gun with the presence of the aforementioned varmints.

Fuck that. We can talk about giving up our guns when the cops and government give up theirs

[-] rchive@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

We can talk about giving up our guns when the cops and government give up theirs

Amen to that.

[-] xhieron@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Good luck fighting off Pentagon drones with your hobby weapon.

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