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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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[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 101 points 8 months ago

Add Johnson to this

[-] No1@aussie.zone 12 points 8 months ago

Thots & Raypers

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[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 93 points 8 months ago

I gave up after Sandy Hook. If the population can't prevent assault weapons from being sold after such a gun butchers children, then they won't make their representatives do anything that makes a difference. You have to fix it someday, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 46 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The year of Sandy Hook, the gun lobby increased their "donations" to Republicans from $8 million to $16 million per year, where it remains to this day.

Also, be wary of saying "assault weapons" as it's vague and used by the pro-gun crowd to undermine discussion -- semi-automatic guns are the weapon of choice for criminals, terrorists and domestic abusers and are not necessary for hunting nor hobby shooting.

It's why they're strictly controlled in most countries.

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[-] xpinchx@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

Hey I'm not super into politics, but maybe we should look into banning guns ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If you need one for hunting or varmint control there can be a special license for that but you gotta admit we got a little problem with guns in America.

I have guns but if the day comes where they're banned fuck it I'll turn em in if that helps us move past daily mass shootings.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 8 months ago

i dunno i think we should just pray more. that always seems to work after every mass shooting.

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[-] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 64 points 8 months ago

The fact that card admitted to wanting to do this and nothing was done boggles my mind. The entire state is on their knees until he is caught. Every school has been shut down and the surrounding towns are all still in lock down until further notice. I'm 2h away and they're debating a lock down for us now because he had plans to go to saco,me and going through that down this morning you can tell they're geared up and ready for the call

[-] JoeyBalls@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's absolutely retarded that they couldn't stop him. My cousin is the one who reported him and then they gave him a psych eval. But somehow they let him check himself out and then do this. I live about an hour and a half away from where it happened

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 8 months ago

is it just me or does mike johnson look kinda like evil stephen colbert and it really makes me want him to revive the colbert report just to do a parody of him

[-] abaddon@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Colbert compared their appearances on a recent episode

[-] argo_yamato@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately as long as republicans are in office no real gun control will ever happen.

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[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Tots & Pears ✌️

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