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
I meanā¦ The rest of the world proves that youāre wrong. Like the whole world. They donāt have this problem. America does.
Right? Motherfuckers canāt afford rent or a home, but can shell out 10-15 grand for a black market gun lmao.
Most of the illicit guns people are buying are like $100 hi-point pistols. Theyāre not buying illegal ARs (also thatās what the Mexican cartels are doing).
Why even bother buying illegal ARs. They buy them in Texas .