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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    well, they’ve already shat on the rest of the bill of rights. what’s one more?

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      The Founding Fathers would never have signed the Bill of Rights if they thought it would ever be amended in any way, yeah. Great point.

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      Are you more free because the GOP refuses to regulate the militia? These people aren’t. Are we more secure? Absolutely fucking not. Go back and read your precious bill of rights and tell us what the point of the second amendment is. Republicans wipe their ass with the bill of rights.

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      Well when laws are woefully out of date they deserve to be shit on. That’s how democracy and progress works.

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      I dunno man, if golfing killed 100,000 people a year don’t you think someone would investigate? Why should this sport be different?

      As it is, the most dangerous sport in America (mountain climbing) kills 30 people a year.

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        you could argue golfing probably kills way more people you would expect with all that fertilizer and pesticide runoff

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      Let’s not let women or black people vote either /s

      It’s fine, just because you want a killing machine doesn’t mean you or anyone else is entitled to it. Guns in 1776 were a little different than what we got now. I like guns and I think they’re neat, but the proof is in the pudding. They’re doing more harm than good.