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 locationsā€”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.

ā€œNow, we know the arguments,ā€ Colbert said of the do-nothing response politicians generally have to tragedies such as this. ā€œSome people are going to say this is a mental health issue. Others are going to say itā€™s a gun issue. But thereā€™s no reason it canā€™t be both.ā€

  • S_204@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I meanā€¦ The rest of the world proves that youā€™re wrong. Like the whole world. They donā€™t have this problem. America does.

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      8 months ago

      Right? Motherfuckers canā€™t afford rent or a home, but can shell out 10-15 grand for a black market gun lmao.

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        8 months ago

        Most of the illicit guns people are buying are like $100 hi-point pistols. Theyā€™re not buying illegal ARs (also thatā€™s what the Mexican cartels are doing).