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 locationsāa 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.
āNow, we know the arguments,ā Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have to tragedies such as this. āSome people are going to say this is a mental health issue. Others are going to say itās a gun issue. But thereās no reason it canāt be both.ā
āIf someone breaks a law we might as well not have itā 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.
This genuinely isnāt worth responding to. Nobody would say it in good faith and nobody would read it and be convinced.
By former āresponsible gun ownersā.
Yes, people who arenāt psychopaths have an emotional reaction to 20 more innocent people gunned down, the latest in a string of thousands, that weāre told we need to tolerate forever because men with limp dicks insist theyāll 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.
It was illegal for this guy to kill a bunch of people but he still did it.
My point is more laws arenāt going to fix anything. Maybe try improving peoples lives instead of fostering the conditions that make people go crazy like this in the first place.
With his legally purchased, semi-automatic rifle.
Isnāt it fascinating that we donāt seem to have any trouble using laws to keep landmines, grenades and high explosives out of the hands of domestic terrorists, but the moment it happens to threaten the hobby of middle aged white men and the profits of the gun lobby, laws are somehow powerless?
He was in the national guard. He probably also had a weapon issued to him by the military. What are you trying to say here?