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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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[+] krolden@lemmy.ml -53 points 1 year ago

Bruh, you have to register your car with the government, you lose your license for driving drunk, you have to pass a test to prove you know how to drive.

yeah no one has ever driven an unregistered car or without a license

We should have the same and more controls on guns. This isn’t an either/or situation. Both cars and guns need sufficient controls to prevent deaths and injuries.

if we had the same or more it would still be less than the barrier of legal gun ownership in many states. anyone can get a license without actually knowing how to drive in a meaningful capacity. driving tests are insanely simple and you only have to take them once. sufficient controls would be reducing the reason to use either, whether it is justifiable or not. as it stands cars are still killing more people than guns but there is no national conversation on adding more restrictions on motor vehicles. this shows the reaction to the atrocities committed by mass shooters is just that, an emotional reaction in the heat of the moment.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

yeah no one has ever driven an unregistered car or without a license

"If someone breaks a law we might as well not have it" is a shit take that inherently advocates for the legalisation of rape, murder, theft, human trafficking, torture, drugs, drunk driving and literally every law we have.

if we had the same or more it would still be less than the barrier of legal gun ownership in many states. anyone can get a license without actually knowing how to drive in a meaningful capacity. driving tests are insanely simple and you only have to take them once.

This genuinely isn't worth responding to. Nobody would say it in good faith and nobody would read it and be convinced.

atrocities committed by mass shooters

By former "responsible gun owners".

an emotional reaction in the heat of the moment.

Yes, people who aren't psychopaths have an emotional reaction to 20 more innocent people gunned down, the latest in a string of thousands, that we're told we need to tolerate forever because men with limp dicks insist they'll save the country from crime and tyranny, despite arming the criminals, voting for the tyrants, having neither military training nor the discipline to undertake it and being morbidly obese.

[-] darganon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Do you actually believe this, or are you just trolling? I genuinely can't tell. Poe's Law makes this impossible.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nobody who comments at that rate isn't trolling.

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