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[@TheArnaa]

I’m Australian. The news was on the radio as I was waking up the morning after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. My first thought was “I must have heard that wrong.” Thirty five men, women and children were gunned down by a single shooter with a semi-automatic rifle. That was our last mass shooting because our prime minister had the courage push through new laws banning automatic weapons despite very vocal opposition from the gun lobby.

[@thatswhatisaid8908]

I'm one of the 17 aussies who likes your comment.

[@asheronwindspear552]

And I'll add that was our Conservative Liberal party who was in office at the time.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

That's because Australia is a beautiful and rational country where people tend to actually care about their fellow citizens. We did similar over here in the UK after Dunblane. This is the USA we're talking about, sadly for millions of them, they prioritise their individual right to own guns over the right of other human beings including children to LIVE. Shame on the USA.

[@traekas7228]

🖖! Heavily sad & embarrassed American here. I salute your Prime Minister from 1996, for his/her actions post that particular mass shooting. He got effective legislation passed, in spite of what was probably massive protest by powerful politicians/corporations & various idiots. I wish that America had Leaders like that. You know, that knew their job & actually did it. Not just some schlub from the Millionaire/Billionaire class, trying to fleece residents of their life savings. Thanks for sharing this… PS. I don’t own a gun. Anymore. I was able to illegally buy one off of the street in 1980, for $50.00. I never intended to actually use the evil thing, just as a visual deterrent. And I got ripped off, it & my car disappeared a few days later, one night. I eventually got my car back. I never laid a hand on another gun since then.

[@traekas7228]

@@asheronwindspear552 Conservative Liberal Party sounds a lot like an oxymoron to me. Here, we have, a 2-Party System, essentially, which are diametrically and ideologically opposed to each other. 🤷🏻

[@laalaa99stl]

I don't know what's more horrifying. The mass shooting itself or that we're becoming more inured to them with each passing one. 😔 Actions not prayers.

[@Peachtreedishes]

👍✌️

[@whocares2087.1]

Well, you complain and then you vote republican again, so America deserves what it gets. Republicans will never enact gun control, Republican America is a nightmare and yet they still get millions of votes.

[@jembozaba4864]

There have been 211 Mass shootings in America this year last I checked. Today is day 144. Pretty sure the total has gone up by now. That's how bloody often it happens in your country.

[@piccalillipit9211]

*ITS ACTUALLY VERY DIFFICULT* to explain to an American *HOW CRAZY* you look to the rest of the world when it comes to guns. Imagine if almost every European kept a 1000lb Bull in their living room, and every single day bulls accidentally killed our kids. And some kids took the bull to school and it killed and tramples 5 ot 10 kids. And other took the bull to a church and it killed 20 people. And each year 30,000 were killed by bulls. BUT 30% of the population almost literally got a hard-on over bulls!!! >>> They LOVED bulls and took their bull everywhere, even though it terrified other people. And no matter how many people the bulls killed, it was in our CONSTITUTION that we could keep a tell trained cow for milk. But the right-wing nut jobs insisted that a 1000lb psychotic bull was the same as a well-trained cow for milk. so we just accepted our children being killed by bulls cos there is nothing we can do to stop it.

[@philipstanco6011]

Prayers don’t do one single thing.

[@jpdemer5]

"Thoughts and prayers: It began as a cliché. It became a joke. It has putrefied into a national shame." -David Frum

[@tomk4t]

That school was grossly insecure. The parents should sue the school. I would. Schools in my area are secured and wouldn't let someone just walk in with a gun.

[@tomk4t]

@@lxtr7 Yes but he just walked into the school. That shouldn't happen. He shouldn't be able to enter the building.

[@jpdemer5]

@@tomk4t He shouldn't be able to buy an AR-15. That's the real problem with gun nuts owning Congress (and now the Supreme Court.)

[@tomk4t]

@@jpdemer5 Well you can thank Democrats for ending the filibuster in 2013 for the supreme court. Before that any executive appointee needed a super majority for approval. Meaning Trump would've never gotten any justices approved while he was president because he would need 60 votes. Instead, Democrats changed the rules and bit them in the ass. And Mitch McConnell warned them. I agree. It should be harder to obtain a weapon like that but what is more achievable? Getting the laws changed or making the schools more secure?

[@AhrimanThorn]

@@tomk4t Yeah definitely the fault of the school building. Not the ease with which he was able to get the weapon, never ever that. I mean it’s a really really dangerous country with all those guns so of course children should be kept safe in buildings designed like fortresses. Guns after all are a natural phenomenon so it’s not like anything could be done about them. In fact it’s probably worth pointing out that none of those children were wearing body armour while at school, so that’s another failure of the system right there isn’t it. The problem definitely isn’t guns though. This only happens in the US and it’s the only nation that has a culture of gun idolatry, but let’s just keep looking everywhere else instead.

[@Waywardrosella]

I just hugged my teenage boy for the first time in almost a week since we all got COVID. A week felt like an eternity, I can’t imagine if that hug never came. Vote like you may never hug your kids again.

[@paulj8539]

No words. I was born in Michigan, but have lived in Australia most of my life. I remember when the Port Athur massacre happened. Both major parties couldn't agree on much, but they did on the senselessness of people being able to legally own military style rifles. You dont use them for hunting. Their only use is for killing other people.

[@harpreetjohal1531]

My Granddad had the opportunity to emigrate to Australia or America from India. Not sure if he was prescient or if it was just a coin toss but I wake up every morning so thankful he chose Australia. Even though I'm the child of immigrants I am so proud to be Aussie, particularly when I see the reality of America on a tragic but sadly all too familiar day like today.

[@gmun2248]

I'm Scottish. I was 13 when the Dunblane Primary school massacre happened in 1996. It was the first time I ever saw my dad cry, & Stephen really got me choked up as he collected himself at the beginning here. There was no debate here either. Everyone was horrified & laws were changed unanimously. Guns can be kept with permits by hunters, or on hunting reserves, or with a licence, kept at a gun club for shooting/ target practice; signed in & out. School uniforms were more strictly enforced afterwards too, & any visitors to schools had to sign in & enter through only one entrance. I don't remember how long it took to create new laws, but those practical things (that directly affected me at that age) changed immediately. I believe laws were very quickly changed. And NOBODY OBJECTED. Everyone was horrified. Everyone supported it never happening again, and thankfully all measures have been effective. I know Australia acted similarly. A few years later when I was about 18, I read a novel based on Columbine. Over 20 years ago. It is shameful US politicians cannot even unite over the lives of children. (And horrifically, sadly ironic, given other news.)

[@gmun2248]

Seprately, there is a article in, I believe The Atlantic, written by a radiographic who treated victims in Parkland, FL after the school massacre there. They compare a standard bullet wound - with an entrance & exit wound, creating a straight line through whichever part of the body was hit - with (semi) automatic weapon damage. The details are horrific. It's explained using basic wave theory from physics & the energy dispersed at such speed. It does not create a clean wound, or clean line through the body. It is described as barbaric to use them for hunting. I'd say 'even hunting', but I do not understand anyone who want to kill another living creature, but it makes them unspeakably horrific in terms of the damage they cause in the body. (And even although I oppose hunting, if one is doing it as a sport, it should be a clean, on target shot - not something from a weapon designed to cause maximum suffering.) It makes me quite sick that someone conceived of such a weapon. There is no need for their existence in this world. Despite that gruesome info, the article in The Atlantic is worth reading. It should be obligatory. Read aloud in Congress. People should understand - it needs to be more than an abstract conversation. It needs something different to make people pay attention, as horrible as it is.

[@paulj8539]

@@gmun2248 Using a semi auto rifle to hunt is kinda like buttering toast with a bayonette - yeah, technically it's a knife, but that's not its' intended purpose, and it makes a lot of mess...

[@silencedogood7297]

Our country is addicted to violence. It is time to get rid of all guns and all video games urging the players to kill aliens, kill people, kill kill kill. Our Memorial Day should be dedicated to all the kids shot to death in the USA in the past 50 years. MOre kids who will never grow up. Cowards who are afraid of gun owners are running this sad shadow of a democracy. Cowards who own guns are the bullies. Sad that a once-proud nation died from inside.

[@kristysuggs3282]

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families in texas. Please please congress do something so this wont happen again enough is enough.

[@tamjk]

New Zealand and Australia have achieved gun reform because we never had an organisation like the NRA, with so much money and power, influencing our politicians.

[@yvonnerolley9676]

Different culture

[@IAmSuzyQ]

Marjorie Taylor Greene deserves a seat in Congress as much as a flat-Earther deserves a job at NASA. Georgia, do us all a solid and VOTE HER OUT!

[@beastfromthemiddleeast6369]

Her constitutes are even dumber than her. She will stay. Bet.

[@gamepapa1211]

Come on, Georgia. You still owe us for the Georgia railroad. Do the right thing!

[@kathybyerly7904]

She made it in. That district idk what they are on but she got it yuk

[@whiskyjames4200]

YES!!!

[@lo-keyloki9986]

@@kathybyerly7904 They're at the bottom 1% of brain function is what they are.

[@xeroterragoth1866]

I literally had to pause this at the 9 minute mark when I heard they were going to share something MGT said. They really should put a warning up before they do that, you can break a person's brain by introducing something THAT stupid without warning.

[@cleverusername9369]

My congratulations to whomever came up with Otto von Skidmark. Mixing history and a scatological joke, very nicely done

[@mariadoyle5343]

Clever username: I like "oozing orange sphincter von skidmark". Has a nice ring to it.

[@trudygreer2491]

@@mariadoyle5343 onomatopoetic!

[@philipkoene5345]

Bit unfair to good old Otto. He unified Germany, fathered the German welfare state and had a reputation for being very good at multilateral diplomacy and maintaining peace. He would have wiped the floor with the moronic tangerine in every conceivable way.

[@cleverusername9369]

@@philipkoene5345 my dear sir, with my compliments and respect: And to what did that lead? His good works and his efforts were a bit overshadowed by the horrors of WW1 and WWII, and whatever good Bismark did was immediately undone by Germany, _twice_ . Any time the world lets Germany gets drunk and patriotic, bad things happen

[@lurklingX]

that one made me cackle out loud. brilliant.

[@tyaarmstrong2751]

Prayers don’t work without action. Is time the USA starts protecting their children.

[@rickc2078]

You should have stopped at "Prayers don't work" end of.

[@ashkebora7262]

@Rick C So... you don't want to protect children? Are you a predator? Or do you simply fail to realize this isn't some right-wing dog whistle this time?

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Prayers don't work AT ALL. The US won't change anything. They're too selfish. They care more about their individual right to own guns than they care about other people's right to LIVE.

[@eileendunn2130]

Bravo opening, Stephen! Thank you.

[@LoveDiveChannel]

Yeah

[@sharondowling8896]

His SCONE SPURS! Egads- we need your humor more each day! Thank you!!

[@blindkimberly1360]

Thank you Steven. My heart is with the families and community affected by this horrible senseless tragedy. But I’m beyond angry at every governor in the US. Every single time they say they’re going to do “whatever it takes” to keep it from happening again. And here we are. Again. Enough. I wouldn’t allow my child to go back to school. It’s not safe. How many children are they going to let die this way? 💔

[@uptick888]

Other instigators including Abbott: Greg Abbott Ken Paxton Wayne La Pierre Donald Trump Alex Jones Mitch McConnell Ted Cruz Glenn Beck Sean Hannity Tucker Carlson Rush Limbaugh Ron DeSantis Brian Kemp Josh Hawley Greg Parsons Fox News Level Discover the Up Magic of Swimming In conjunction with: Laura Ingraham Jeannie Pirro Maria Baritromo Charlie Kirk Candace Owens Steven Crowder Joe Rogan Ben Shapiro Marjorie Taylor Greene Kyle Rittenhouse George Zimmerman The Proud Boys The III%ers The Oath Keepers The GOP: Because it's much easier to kill people than it is to keep them alive! The NRA: Because

[@juanitaross5492]

America is the only nation in the world were children are murdered in mass shootings at school. Call your congressman tomorrow and tell them no more thoughts and prayers pass gun safety laws . The red flag law and the background laws.

[@scottingledue7999]

The Republican governor in Ohio wants everyone driving around to have a gun with no background check insane it'll get worse here.

[@mercedeshaecker9006]

You do realize that the bill for a 10 day background check has been on the hill for 2 years and the republicans won’t sign it. Why is that? Maybe power and the NRA donations!?

[@veragruessner5540]

Connecticut did something. It is now one of the strictest states in the country on gun regulations. Texas, however, won’t do a thing. They only care about a heartbeat in the womb. They don’t actually care about living, breathing children.

[@NiennaFan1]

That was an incredibly smooth transition from being serious about tragedy to the rest of the segment which is comedy

[@LeeStJohn-ym4df]

VOTE. Each and everytime. Know where the candidates stand on the issues. Do some homework! Email your reps including the president and VP. Let them know you are paying attention. These people want those jobs. You're the CEO deciding who gets to work for you. VOTE.

[@owenmersk4626]

It's not about voting, rich right wing capitalists like pelosi and clyburn are campaigning for corrupt pro-assault rifle incumbants over progressives too. We need a general strike

[@dudedude869]

ahhhhh in a perfect world .......wait this is far from perfect and the election corruption is off the charts ....so now what //??

[@rosalie4797]

I do that and when I have the opportunity, I speak to them in person. My children continue to wonder how I've never been arrested! LOL I don't know if my words have ever influenced any politician, but at least I'm not silent.

[@LeeStJohn-ym4df]

Great to hear Rosalie! Keeping silent allows politicans to think that if there's no push back then their constituents must be happy w the job they're doing or they just don't give a flyin' fig. In either case they just hunker down behind closed doors and carry on as usual. So sock it to'em everytime Rosalie and VOTE EVERYTIME!

[@reggiecantrell6193]

I will never offer thoughts and prayers, only anger at the inaction of politicians in the United States because this is a _United States of America_ problem. I live in Canada and our yearly total of schools being taregeted by someone with a gun going on a shooting spree is 0 going back to 1992. We have strict gun regulations and we have more mental heatlth support networks, we're not perfect but at least we're not America.

[@quickdiy8127]

What do politicians have to do with mass shootings? I'd rather have guns and deal with mass shootings than have a corrupt tyrannical government and no guns. America works on checks and balances and the second amendment is one

[@TheJMPD]

Sadly, the US has always been fixated on guns. "But if they take ma guns, How am I 'posed to fight off the NWO, Illuminati, and the Freemasons????" "Thoughts and prayers" is a damn useless platitude that will not ever return a victim to their loved ones. And I have to wonder whether any of these bible thumping conservative 2nd Amendment fanatics would change their tune if it was their own child leaving school in a body bag.

[@cc1k435]

I think it's time for the neighbors to start speaking up. Not only Canada, which has long shown more sense than us in so many ways, but also Mexico, which has started pushing back against all the abuse leveled at the country and its people. Texas just lost out on billions of ongoing future revenue because its governor is a completely racist moron, and deservedly so.🤦‍♀️

[@roberthubert8429]

I'm African American and let me say this I completely agree with everything you said my northern staple mate

[@lovemesomeslippers]

Keep voting intelligently so this never happens to you.

[@alexlandherr]

Seeing America’s Gun problem from the outside my top question is: “How the f*ck did you last this long without everyone dying?!!“

[@j-genx2395]

What I love about SC is that he is real empathic and deep with a huge heart yet he uses his whit like a whip. He is both serious, deep and funny which shows his genius.

[@JohnnyVee007]

@Cuthbert Bracegirdle he wouldn't say anything he didn't agree with. writers or not, whenever he speaks off the cuff, he's an articulate and intelligent person. don't diminish this compliment/observation, especially when it's about a tragedy.

[@bbyshady]

calling someone genius...you know he doesn't even write his own "jokes". no you don't. plebs eveywhere.,.. literally shows up and reads a teleprompter such a genius lulz

[@JohnnyVee007]

@@bbyshady calling people "plebs" with that grammar? no one called him a genius. what the OP said is a common phrase. eesh.. all these haters coming out the woodwork.

[@gamepapa1211]

@@bbyshady and yet you're all perfectly fine with Tucker Carlson doing exactly that. Hypocrite much?

[@wayneburton8168]

@@bbyshady Anyone ever offer you millions to read cue cards? Mr Colbert is very good at his job, and the ratings numbers are proof.

[@brianag9726]

Call your reps, vote, and refuse to let this be okay.

[@davidlane256]

They don’t listen. Idk what will make them take their heads out of their asses.

[@joanne4758]

@@davidlane256 As a New Zealander - were not perfect by any means - but after the attack every party came together. Unfortunately corruption runs far deeper in USA. - I wonder if today will just be another statistic. Regards.

[@SeerWS]

Agreed. God, please help us pass anti-gun laws. In Jesus' name and all that is good and kind, please let us rid the USA of these tools of violence, and let us attend with love and care to our needy whose mental afflictions make them susceptible to the devil's influence especially in the USA, where easy access to guns is too great a temptation. Amen.

[@silencedogood7297]

Demand that your reps' gun votes be published prior to every election and the exact dollar donations from gun industry are listed prior to every election. Next those numbers, print the number of kids who died this year. Show and tell ! ! !

[@eltorocal]

@@joanne4758 RepubliKKKlans and their Mass Assault Weapons... we will have to dump the RepubliKKKlans into the ocean for anything to change.

[@irayneman]

Stunning and brave Stephen! That sadness almost looks real....

[@cass_p]

When you vote, consider whether the person you're voting for has promised to get rid of the filibuster - because that is the only way any meaningful legislation, gun control or otherwise, is going to get passed in the current US system.

[@idacoetzee]

It would be hilarious if Gates would sue MTG for defamation and televise the court proceedings- good TV!

[@lurklingX]

i would laugh my @ss off. but i'm sure he's got better things to do.

[@eyanosasioux9575]

It will happen again and again and again and again and prayers will be send again and again and again and again until we finally stop it but at a cost of blood and life’s that did not need to be lost.

[@rgwak]

"No way to prevent this, says only nation where this happens regularly." - The Onion in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and now 2022.

[@kellylingro3288]

The saddest and darkest Onion article

[@mrb152]

"says only nation where this happens regularly." Was a lie in 2014 and was a lie today.

[@trueriver1950]

@@mrb152 name one other country where school massacres are a monthly event? The USA is up to 27 in five months already this year ...

[@wayneperry7413]

@@trueriver1950 Bren won’t answer because they cant

[@rgwak]

@@mrb152 👈 Gets the "real news" from Alex Jones and the My Pillow Guy. 😂🤣

[@ashleyreitz7375]

You can feel the pain as he chokes up... so genuine and honest. ❤

[@mercurialpierrot7073]

🤣

[@bonitahobbs2097]

EMMY virtually guaranteed for the writer's of this program today and your presentation today. THANK YOU. FOR such a time as this!!

[@irtwiaos]

Feels like 'thoughts and prayers' are the only things not suffering from a supply shortage in America these days.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

It's free and means nothing. Not difficult to continue doing.

[@oeleyinafe]

It's not that it's not important; thoughts, sympathies and condolences are important to acknowledge. The real issue is that it's not enough to just express that unless it's followed up with tangible actual policies that'd help stem the gun violence tide. It's going to take more than prayers to get that answer.

[@roni6215]

Well , we're a "Christian " country , after all.

[@mementomori7825]

@@roni6215 no, you're not.

[@roni6215]

@@mementomori7825 Sarcasm ! Duh.

[@amandarobinson3337]

I know he tried but I couldn't laugh at a single thing after that. I've been thinking about this since I heard and it makes me nauseous, nervous, terrified. I have a child that means more to me than anything ever has. If someone ripped her away from me like that...no chance to say goodbye no chance to comfort her...I don't know what would be left of me. Something ugly and dead and destructive. This is a nightmare. We're living in a nightmare and they hope we don't wake up.

[@greenredblue]

Sorry

[@natashafrancis8858]

Same. I had to go just hold my daughter after I saw the news. To know she was safe. But she has school tomorrow, and that shouldn't ever be frightening, but it is.

[@toadjiang7626]

The saddest thing is, those kids in Texas have been regularly having active shooter drills, which is normal only in America.

[@HashknightGaming]

I know I just cry I know he just wants to make us laugh and I find it hard to do that today, I haven't been able not feel sad and extremely angry.

[@jackhammer7824]

You're exactly correct, this is a nightmare. A bad dream we have created by just watching it happen. Reality is what man makes it. Mental health issues and firearms, don't mix. Not in Boulder, not in Sandy Hook, not In Columbine, tomorrow's tragedy.

[@yohei72]

This is where we are: the champion of relative election integrity is Brian Kemp, who arguably stole his gubernatorial seat a few years ago.

[@arenc5619]

The Warrior's Coach Kerr said it best - public officials, especially those on the federal level should do something. The empty condolences are beyond useless at this point. The right to keep and bear arms is for a well-trained militia (ie: National Guard), not mentally ill teens or people who need a gun to feel superior to other human beings.

[@istdochallesegal3427]

THANK YOU!!! I'm a tiny bit encouraged that at least one other person out there believes that the 2A words "...as part of a well-regulated militia..." actually mean something.

[@thegoastofmccain5368]

Tax semi auto weapons and re open the insane asylums. I’d like to see a mass shooter or larp afford a $100,000 gun.

[@christophertownsend3820]

Well said. Love and tears for the families from Canada 🍁

[@shielanunn3484]

we need Well Regulated Gun laws..as well as ENFORCING them

[@markmh835]

@@shielanunn3484 -- Shiela (if that's really your name), please tell me: 1) What existing gun laws are NOT being enforced? 2) Who is not enforcing them? Please name names. 3) and WHY are they not being enforced? You 2nd Amendment lovers trot out "enforce existing laws" with the same fervor as you offer "thoughts and prayers." And yet you are always short on specifics. ANSWER MY 3 QUESTIONS if you are serious! And then, if you are not a complete hypocrite, I want to see you and all of your kind working to DEFEAT these unenforcers at the ballot box and elect new candidates (of WHATEVER party) who WILL enforce all these "existing laws" you prattle on about. Then I will believe you..... Waiting.....

[@christophersorensen6522]

He threatened to severely beat up anyone pieing him? Argh, the extent and dynamic of his POSness is boundless!

[@Damnitjim7]

Gimme a pie and his location

[@christophersorensen6522]

@@Damnitjim7 this weekend, NRA Convention, Houston, Texas, just miles from the slaughtering of tens of children with guns this week. Pieing might be well-argued as your constitutional right.

[@delfinevenson9594]

again applaud stephen on having to report such horrific news and being able to hold back the obvious pain he and others feel for these children and teachers... thumbs up colbert.

[@Nygaard2]

America, the country where guns are more important than children.

[@jessetorres8738]

I'd like our state to have a Governor who could stand up to the N.R.A. and gun lobbyists, but sadly Abbott can't do that.

[@rhapsodyshadow_]

Wait, you're a Texan?

[@njad3]

Abbot is as spineless as they come

[@piccalillipit9211]

*ITS ACTUALLY VERY DIFFICULT* to explain to an American *HOW CRAZY* you look to the rest of the world when it comes to guns. Imagine if almost every European kept a 1000lb Bull in their living room, and every single day bulls accidentally killed our kids. And some kids took the bull to school and it killed and tramples 5 ot 10 kids. And other took the bull to a church and it killed 20 people. And each year 30,000 were killed by bulls. BUT 30% of the population almost literally got a hard-on over bulls!!! >>> They LOVED bulls and took their bull everywhere, even though it terrified other people. And no matter how many people the bulls killed, it was in our CONSTITUTION that we could keep a tell trained cow for milk. But the right-wing nut jobs insisted that a 1000lb psychotic bull was the same as a well-trained cow for milk. so we just accepted our children being killed by bulls cos there is nothing we can do to stop it.

[@isosebryl213]

As a fellow Texan we need to vote abbot out !!

[@philipstanco6011]

I am a Texan and republicanism is firmly entrenched in the state.

[@BrokeredHeart]

As a Canadian watching the US, I'm aghast at the pure barbarism of the conservative and extreme right. What civilized country agrees that gun regulation is too high a price to pay in exchange for the lives of children? It is debased and totally unconscionable that the priorities of a deranged teenager with murderous intent are placed above the safety of second graders, the elderly, and peaceful citizens. We have murder in Canada, we have gun violence, and we have witnessed unspeakable mass shootings before, but every time some premeditated terror attack occurs, there are significant consequences and restrictions put in place to prevent a reoccurrence. We don't brush it off and say, "it's not guns, it's mental health/ it's poverty/ it's drug dependence/ it's a few bad apples". It's not addressing the fact that as of 2021, there are more guns circulating in America than ever before (120+ to every 100 people). It's not addressing the fact that domestic abusers are still able to LEGALLY obtain and possess a firearm. It's not addressing the fact that a three day waiting period for a background check isn't enough due to strained resources for the number of examiners. It's not addressing the fact that white supremacy in America has been going completely unchecked for decades, and they are actively mobilizing against innocent and vulnerable people. All I can do as an outsider is point out the list of problems, and offer you what our solutions have been just north of the border, but I will be decried as some Commie Marxist Pacifist by everyone who prizes a deadly weapon over the preservation of lives. It stems from the very ingrained American characteristic of a innate distrust and disdain for central government, something a lot of Western countries do not share with you. We believe in a social responsibility for one another, not by any show of force, but through civil institutions and an affinity for one's community and locality. We just went through one of the most violent and damaging storms in Ontario that knocked out power to almost half a million people across the province. I didn't hear about lawlessness, and looters and people fighting at gas pumps. I witnessed neighbors stringing extension cords across roads to supply power to households in the dark from their own generator. I saw kids outside moving brush and debris and collecting branches off the sidewalks. I saw people sharing food, hot water, and what little electricity they had while we waited days for the hydro crews to clear fallen trees and powerlines. My internet came back on yesterday and this shooting in Uvalde was the first thing I saw, and it was monstrous to me that the state made no move to make that devastated community of parents, teachers, and students feel safe and secure. Your neighbors should not be your enemies and your children should not be in fear of going to class. Stop placating these extremists by giving them exactly what they want - control! The way to do that is to stop electing representatives that offer them safe harbor and unfettered access to weapons of mass homicide. Don't let these kids and their families become just another statistical nightmare. Don't let those communities in Buffalo go unnoticed, or the victims of the Taiwanese church be forgotten. American gun culture is the most inhumane and disturbing practice. Those so-called "law-abiding good gun owners" aren't being more forceful or vocal about the practical and effective changes that must be enacted NOW in order to prevent such terror acts from happening again. The country is being held hostage by a handful of political extremists with no compassion for human life. There are so few opportunities to make them go away, and you have to take advantage of every one of them to get them out of power and control. All the chickens are coming home to roost for the Republican Party these last few weeks, painting a very grim picture of the state of the United States, and the very dangerous backslide that still awaits everyone if they regain a political majority. Everything is at stake, so vote accordingly, and petition for causes that will force their hand to act. You shouldn't have to put up with these massacres or the ensuing bullshit they projectile over everyone as they shy away from the discussion of gun legislation. If you want it, you've got to make it happen. Your lives are on the line, and they don't care, so find someone who does.

[@catcardinalli197]

Thank you “broken-hearted Canadian” for your cogent, keen, and empathetic analysis of our uniquely American shame. I am impressed that an observer from another country would take the time to write such a clear and insightful comment. Thank you. Cat

[@KohalaLover]

You are both a sham and a shame.

[@someperson4823]

Thoughts and prayers won't bring those kids back or stop the next one that's going to happen and that's just the sad truth. Don't let them die for nothing. You have power to vote and to do something.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

FREEDOM is being able to get a gun and kill kids. If you can't decide to.murder children at 8 am and by the gun at 815 and murder 20 children by 930 it's tyranny.

[@ratty5]

Mass shooters don’t follow regulations. What are you voting towards exactly? I agree something must be done but America has too many corrupt politicians not looking out for its people. Like homelessness shouldn’t be increasing while politicians ride around in limousines.

[@gabyyy8570]

@@ratty5 so wtf do you want to say? Let those politicians still be in their seats in the government?

[@gabyyy8570]

@@ratty5 thats why US is a DEMOCRACY, freaking vote them out, why the f are the americans especially the republican ones so inept

[@jcoopes5604]

Don’t be complacent! VOTE 🗳

[@alohadave13]

Thank you for raising this issue. #EndGunViolence NOW and vote for politicians that will attempt to do that...

[@tomgbghva347]

"Very nice people on neither side" LOL love it!!!

[@Tadicuslegion78]

At any moment, I keep expecting to hear about Trump and Pence getting into a fiddling duel with Kemp and all the other candidates for governor in Georgia

[@It-b-Blair]

Lookin for a soul to steal 🎶🎵

[@marshamariner7897]

@@It-b-Blair now I'll hear that song in my head ALL NITE 🌹💖😂😅😅

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

Souls? With that crowd?

[@UkeCan1]

Not gonna happen. The devil only fiddle-battles with people who haven't already sold him their souls.

[@UkeCan1]

But more to the point, I hear a Fox in Socks bit coming on: Trump / Pence / Kemp scum run maga-hatted fiddle battle for Peach State race bait lead seat.

[@Leonaza7]

We have the power to change this. Vote! we must hold this people accountable for not changing the gun laws!

[@dannyaikin1395]

"PRAYERS WON'T END THIS. VOTING MIGHT." .....................never forget this fact.........."Very Fine People On Neither Side", ain't bad....

[@clarafedde8674]

Stephen Colbert is on fire today. Wish more people watch him.

[@BlueBaron3339]

I agree, Clara - the writers were in rare form today. One zinger after another! And tight!

[@kathybyerly7904]

I lovec. Late night

[@durexuncensored]

dont waste time too much on far-leftist

[@mikeharrison1868]

The writers are on fire, and the news in the US is so weird. (Lots of great people doing great things as well, but sadly that doesn't make the news.)

[@clarafedde8674]

Yeah, you know what is hilarious part... comedian are doing the job journalist should be doing. Most are not, and I mean NOT doing their job.

[@dyscotopia]

Stephen has gotten far too practiced at going from heartfelt gravitas and call to action to levity. Does the US need a big sign with the number of days since last mass shooting? There's no time to grieve one before the next, and the really sickening part is that there are some very powerful people who don't see that as a problem.

[@Karajorma]

That sign would permanently be on 0. America has more than 365 mass shootings a year.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

You.could make that sign out of anti matter. The most expensive substance in existence. Becuase it can just say zero days and never need to changed.

[@philipstanco6011]

I agree. We need to sign like what McDonald’s has That says how many hamburgers they have sold.

[@benzaiten933]

wouldn't even need double digits.....

[@Karajorma]

@@benzaiten933 Wouldn't need any digits other than a 0.

[@abeatingheart8259]

Should Supreme Court change their priorities? Rather than helping us to decipher old texts from long ago, perhaps take care of laws to protect those currently living?

[@Emy53]

"From ever happening again"....where have I heard those words over and over again. It will happen again and again because our children's safety doesn't seem to be a priority.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Not unless someone decides to change the rethuglicans's mind with a bullet through it. Why do you think the anti-lynching bill finally passed after being in limbo for over 100 years? One of their "own" was essentially threatened to be put to the gallows.

[@HallelujahBK]

*except for when they’re a cluster of cells. Once a child is living, breathing, and thinking… the GOP doesn’t give a good goddamn what happens to them.

[@Dermatillomaniac]

And neither does mental health support.

[@alphtheor.879]

I always figured he'd be afraid of someone throwing a salad in his face.

[@donnaarsenoff8399]

Didn’t he say in an interview that he was concerned about tomatoes being thrown at him? Or maybe it was in an interview about him talking about having the rally goers beat up if anyone threw fruit.

[@mariadoyle5343]

@@donnaarsenoff8399 I think he said it at one of his s**tshow rallies, he's definitely concerned about flying tomatoes.😃

[@lurklingX]

ahahaaa omg someone needs to do THAT. he hasn't thought of it yet, but if he did, he would add it to his fears list!!

[@cliffbungalow9373]

With russian dressing

[@10s-d7j]

Anything to distract you guys from that guy you voted for eh? Can't blame you. I be embarrassed to. Lol!

[@rebeccanolan9623]

Yes Mr, Colbert, and you, yourself should run for office. I would vote for you indeed,

[@NLSAGER]

Thank you for your opening statement and request to all voters!

[@sarahbarrett1247]

My heart goes out to the victims and families in Texas. How many more have to needlessly suffer 💔

[@zeldasmith6154]

Many. Nothing goes to change in Texas. Nothing.

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

Here in the UK, we have had zero school shootings in the past 10 years. In the USA you have has 228! What is wrong with you? Surely you must find this unacceptable? Kids must be able to go to school without fear of losing their lives! Come on America, you are better than this!

[@AlisVolatPropiis]

“Very fine people . . . on neither side”😔 We need better people!

[@kgames1748]

They are both Republicans it's a primary Who ever wins get to got the election against the Democrat But u right better people on all sides fr

[@edwardmontoya50]

Mike Pence wondering about the blue liquid really cracked me up.

[@wrenlinwhitelight3007]

Atheists don't get enough credit in their effort to stop gun related tragedies. Violence is a strange part of our evolution, but we can overcome this with logic, conversation and reason. I wish my America saw it coming.

[@BernicePanders]

Stephen's emotion at the beginning is touching, but it would really help if he realized that we've ALWAYS voted because of what they SAY IN PUBLIC they will do, and that's how we got here. How about we start voting based on what they've DONE ABOUT IT!? 🤨

[@davidlundquist1979]

In that case, we won't be voting for anyone at all.

[@jcoopes5604]

Don’t be complacent! We cannot let them get control! VOTE 🗳 those f@ckers out!

[@lurklingX]

yes but also look at their track record. if people have a history of saying one thing then completely reversing stance... (check when Cruz ran for prez he actually made GOOD arguments, and you'd never believe him to be the sh*thole he is. and L Graham also has said good things but GOD what a clusterfk he is......). point is - look at what they say over time. *people who are more stable on their opinion are the ones to go for*

[@vonn4017]

no. we simply have to introduce a new vote "NO CONFIDENCE: where with a simple public majority. you can be removed from office based on your retarded decisions in office B4 your term is up. and if that happens you are banned from politics forever. that way if you break the public confidence then we break you. they work for the people not corporations

[@cathywethington5913]

Don't listen to what they say. Pay attention to how they vote then base your own vote on that. Unfortunately sometimes you don't have any good choices. Massie of Kentucky just lost to someone even more idiotic.

[@taun96]

Dude, what's going on in the US? As someone who lives in Australia, it's shocking to see how easy it is for some idiot to get a gun.

[@nancysmith8626]

TS, we wish we knew what's going on in the US. Clearly we've gone insane in this hellhole dumpster fire of a country.

[@passionworksbodyshop9738]

I bought a fully auto (completely illegal) SKS off "country shopper" radio a few years back. Cash on the side of the highway. Cash, No ID, No background. Yes, we have a problem in America.

[@lillia2479]

Because cars are more dangerous then guns so we have more regulations for cars and driver's licenses than actually owning a weapon that can kill easier and given out to just about anyone who is old enough even if they are mentally unstable cuz they can just use that as an excuse to go trim down the population... honestly, I think we've just become used to all the killings that a lot of us have just given up on trying to fix it anymore cuz no matter what we do, nothing is changing. We have become complacent. Just like complacency with covid deaths of both innocent and stupid people...

[@jaysonpida5379]

It's difficult to fully explain but guns to many Amercians are a 'god'..... something to be worshipped and protected even if you ( and children must die). And >by extention< if you own such a 'god' and can use it......that makes you a God. Or if you want to go more juvenile American mindset change 'god' with 'superhero'. Read some of the comments already posted on many sites and you'll understand that 'America' is a sick-in-the-head country.

[@rickc2078]

32 mass shootings in the USA in the last two weeks, the media only report the bad ones. It's now normal in the USA. Nothing will be done about it.

[@disappearintothesea]

I’ve always said that if America really wanted to do something about actual gun policies they would’ve done it when Sandy Hook happened. Rinse and repeat, y’all. 😔

[@hostility3404]

Tired of prayers and thoughts, we need action.

[@nartouzumaki8232]

maybe Harry Potter knows a Magic Spell to make all the Guns fly away

[@Brandon_388]

@@nartouzumaki8232 lol

[@hostility3404]

@@nartouzumaki8232 insensitive, and sad that you have to resort to trolling at a time like this.

[@nartouzumaki8232]

@@hostility3404 trolling ??? I am just saying that thoughts and prayers are just as helpful as Magic !! about that insensitive part .. your Name is hostility and you are watching a Comedy Late Night Show and I bet you were laughing 1 or 2 times .. so let's not go there even tho I just did .. ✌️ Peace

[@hostility3404]

@@nartouzumaki8232 my name has nothing to do with what happened today lol. I have no clue what your name is and I’m not even bringing it up. You’re looking like a straight up clown right now, more than my profile picture so bounce.

[@Leonaza7]

Americans want results, but politicians want nra money. Stop the madness, hold politicians accountable to Americans, not the nra.

[@ha-zi]

No guns for everyone! finally bans the possession of guns. Human safety must be the number one priority, not possession of a weapon!

[@davidweyant9356]

The NRA will now double their donations. Gun sales go up after mass shootings.

[@Maya_Pinion]

☮️

[@jamesbowen2105]

NRA has been run by known FSB agents for over a decade... destabilizing the USA is an end goal.

[@David-wk6md]

What's the population of NZ? Do the math and tell me what you think.

[@flyingcloud9253]

Especially funny writing and fabulous delivery by Colbert!!! Bravo...

[@kateuhler7803]

💙Thanks for the many laughs during many hard times Stephen!

[@jeffd9782]

Agreed! During the T**** years and covid, he has been a 'go to' for stability and refreshing humor

[@SpaceForceCommander]

Pence’s Kemp 72.5% beats Trump’s Perdue 22.8% so far.

[@Brandon_388]

Kemp is good as well for republicans, nothing wrong with him

[@UkeCan1]

Kemp is no less reprehensible though, so let's not celebrate too early. He's the one who stole the last governor's race from Stacy Abrams in the first place, by suppressing as many black votes as possible.

[@alexdasliebe5391]

and everyone loses. 😕

[@lurklingX]

fingers crossed! (then, hoping we swing the vote to D for the actual gov seat)

[@trueriver1950]

Trump quoted as saying that puts Perdue in lead

[@stewiedarkinvisibleid]

As a fellow Earthling, quite frankly, I'm embarrassed to admit to the rest of our planet that I'm an American.

[@ziqi92]

Someone sell banana cream pies at a Trump rally. Just to taunt him.

[@matthewlasalvia7026]

I would throw apples. They’re cheaper and hurt a lot more.

[@gmun2248]

When Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The News of the World was under a live-on-TV (unusual here for legal stuff) Parliamentary Hearing - & ultimately ordered to shut, pay damages, & editors were jailed; someone managed to smuggle a cream pie into the hearing. His (ex)wife had pretty good reflexes & whacked the guy's arm, but he NEARLY got him with a cream pie. Such a shame he wasn't seated on his other side.

[@mariadoyle5343]

ziqi 92 Rotten tomatoes. Loads of 'em. 🍅🍅🍅!!

[@ShadoeLandman]

@@matthewlasalvia7026 But pies are messier and leave a very visible reminder all over the person.

[@suzannarobinson4726]

Good plan!

[@anthonydaniel9534]

Colbert rules. That transition was genius, and exactly what I needed.

[@lampan8786]

❤️Texas ❤️

[@kgames1748]

He's good at that how I survived mentally the past 4 years

[@TheWorld_2099]

Support Marcus Flowers who is running against MTG. He can beat her.

[@theFoodLady]

Thank you, Mr. Colbert. We need to rally to fix this horrid situations in our America.

[@Mushroomstops]

Man I hope people show up to all Donald’s events to pie him. It would be great to see a KZbin of it on a golf course or at a wedding or something.

[@GBergroth]

That’s assault.

[@10s-d7j]

Anything to distract you from that guy you voted for eh?

[@GBergroth]

@@10s-d7j - America’s voter ID laws are pretty loose but I’m Australian. I didn’t vote for anyone.

[@Mushroomstops]

@@mslinda8456 Absolutely

[@Mushroomstops]

@@10s-d7j At least the guy I voted for is living in reality.

[@Keefs_c.c.89]

Quick! Someone pumpkin pie the Trumpet🎃🥧

[@xelamercedes]

It's a great idea BUT too often we are voting in a election in which neither candidate has made a forthright statement of support for dramatic gun control. We are voters - they are legislators. What we want doesn't matter to them once they're elected....or seated (SCOTUS).

[@lurklingX]

also, we just plain need better people. the candidates often SUCK.

[@AlanSmitheeman]

Perhaps consider voting for independent candidates whose platforms most closely align with your opinions. The US is too big a nation to just have two parties to choose from.

[@gus.smedstad]

I'm surprised that Stephen didn't bring up the *last* weird fear The Former Guy brought up - being attacked with tomatoes, pineapples, bananas, and "other dangerous fruits." Pies aren't his only cartoon fear.

[@tinaperez7393]

That's right - all that dangerous fruit. I forgot about that. He is such a freakishly egotistical wuss. Pies and fruit on his face especially strikes him as a very embarrassing humiliating weak visual image and his vanity and ego and predatory personality can't stand the idea of people seeing him like that.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Monty Python all over again. "What if he has a pointed stick?"

[@UkeCan1]

@@TheDanishGuyReviews The comfy chair!!! 😱

[@ericminch]

He's afraid of fruits, pies, and large falling objects, so surprise him with quicksand.

[@journeyswithj246]

Didn't he talk about it already?

[@AW-xv7dq]

Take the $$$ out of politics and vote for anyone that has an issue with the current gun laws. It will take decades to weed it out but think of the lives it may save along the way.

[@Timelord774]

The saddest indictment of American culture I have ever heard is the phrase "active shooter drill". How collectively insane must a country be that such a thing even exists? If you keep electing politicians that refuse to do anything about your gun culture you are no longer deserving of our pity and deserve nothing but the contempt of the civilized world. A country that values guns over the lives of their own children has truly lost it's way.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

And the crazy thing is, most of them don't even realise how absolutely bizarre and shocking that IS to normal people in sane countries. Shame on the USA. They've gone too far. There's no way back.

[@danixoxo8637]

Exactly!!!

[@landonlandon5533]

You suggest roll over and play dead? I'll double check, but criminals still won't follow the law. Nice try

[@tomisaacson2762]

America's not really a democracy.

[@brianwall9592]

​@@landonlandon5533 Make any excuse you want, but explain this: WHY has it worked in pretty much every other civilized country on the planet? Same for universal healthcare. And the current GLOBAL inflation, supply shortages, high gas prices, etc, all of which you GOP sub-humans somehow insist is "Biden's fault" ? Why keep making excuses which simply do not pan out for the rest of the world? Are we "special" here in the USA? Do we have uniquely EVIL criminals, compared to the rest of the world? Start thinking GLOBALLY, GOP morons, and Welcome back to GLOBAL REALITY! ??

[@dataglasses]

I am grateful to live in Australia, guns were banned some 25 years ago after a mass shooting in Tasmania, Agreed, strong leadership is required to change your situation, regards!

[@Brandon_388]

I saw your crazy lockdowns, Americans will not stand for that bs

[@dataglasses]

@@Brandon_388 Fair enough, we were not happy either, but the topic is a little different in this instance, take care!

[@imatugwaddle2291]

Courage? From OUR leaders?!

[@batgurrl]

My condolences to all. Stephen, your transition from somber sadness to hilarity was brilliant. Former president Otto Von Skidmark, the thrilla in vanilla, scones spurs. The entire monkey pox section was especially delicious

[@dudedude869]

awww bat scratch got canceled much like you

[@gamepapa1211]

*women getting abortions GQP: THAT IS MURDER IT IS AGAINST THE LAW IT MUST BE STOPPED RIGHT NOW FOR GREAT JUSTICE *elementary school kids actually getting murdered GQP: *crickets, a man coughs in the background

[@gamerman782]

they only care about children while they are still in the stomach, after that it's the parents option

[@mayberelevant3237]

So true 😢 the “pro lifers” don’t give a sh*t about the children once they are born !!

[@roni6215]

Can we offer "thoughts and prayers " to the women who have abortions ? Done .

[@lurklingX]

abortion is simply a party rallying tool. it always has been.

[@amyreynolds3619]

No, but we can learn to mind our own business and clean up our own backyards.

[@archangelvvv]

EXCELLENT Video! This needed to be said. I have a close friend in Paris who told me if ANYONE is caught on the street in possession of a gun of any kind, it results in an automatic prison sentence for not less than 6 months.

[@theonlycanadiangoose2]

My condolences to the family of the victims on this sad time let's hope for change 🇨🇦🙏🏻🥺🕯

[@annapeck7635]

We can't hope for it Americans need to vote for it!

[@larryborsa4396]

Nothing will change. It will happen over and over because 2nd 'mendment.

[@sharazar]

Unfortunately NOTHING will change. This will not be the time to talk about gun control. and more kids will be killed in a month or couple months and that also will not be the time.

[@edwall100]

@@annapeck7635 It would not do any good...the nra is in congress...they need to go after them...

[@delcox8165]

Would be nice, but how many times has that exact phrase been offered over the past few years alone?

[@nannetteprata4571]

Thank you Stephen. Please stay on it

[@Sandi-ke9mi]

Seeing the pictures of those sweet innocent children and the 2 teachers that are now lost to gun violence…I can’t stop the tears. How do we stop this?!?! 🙏🏻😞

[@susiestone5644]

I bet you're pro abortion. so stop your fake tears for murdered innocent children.

[@patrickhobbs96]

As a Canadian, I understand the need for guns for certain purposes. However, you don't need semi-automatic weapons or handguns for those purposes.

[@alexanderangelo7284]

Playing devils advocate here: Says who? Who is the state to tell me that? Who are you to tell me that? I'm a law abiding citizen. Why should I be punished for what somebody else did?

[@patrickhobbs96]

@@alexanderangelo7284 Punished? Wow...

[@alexanderangelo7284]

@@patrickhobbs96 I said I was playing Devils Advocate wasn't I?

[@jude5976]

I couldn’t agree more Patrick. Our Forefathers would be outraged at what we have become. They could not foresee how guns would evolve.

[@maimonaalsharif8505]

Lived in the US for a while , great people . But could not stop myself from being scared every time I went to to a public place

[@mrrsnlk03]

Some of these politicians have been in Congress for decades and that has to change.. TERM LIMITS FOR THEM AND THEN MAYBE THINGS WILL GET DONE..

[@Nan-59]

💙VOTE BLUE 4 CHANGE!✌🏻💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@royroland3884]

We did in 2020 and nothing changed.

[@Brandon_388]

Lol

[@markdagostino9666]

Thoughts and prayers are as equal as …a thousand points of light.

[@It-b-Blair]

Get a magnifying glass and you can start a fire? 😜😂😂 but yeah, nice analogy

[@philipstanco6011]

Prayers are for people that want to feel like they’re doing something but they are actually doing absolutely nothing.

[@rickc2078]

Thoughts and prayers are the cause of this lunacy.

[@IAmSuzyQ]

@@philipstanco6011 EXACTLY! They can shove their "thoughts and prayers" where the sun don't shine; we need change and laws. We're failing our country's children!

[@Smeegle653]

This guy is the Johnny Carson of our time... spot on Stephen spot on😎

[@gwen6453]

Brilliant show, Stephen Colbert. Helps the nations to lighten up during these crazy tumultuous times!

[@bbchester6]

I miss Jon Stewart.

[@10s-d7j]

Brilliant? Sure use that term loosley.

[@dot8605]

I didn't know about a shooting before watching Stephen. My first thought was "again?" Disbelief from Germany, where the gun control is very rigid, hopefully for a very long time to come.

[@oasntet]

"Think of the children!" - The right, except when guns are involved.

[@brandi6993]

Just found out one of the children was ten my own daughter is ten I couldn’t imagine the pain but we can all come together and push 1) the nra should be first to pay for all the funerals for these victims this is the fault of the lobbyist 2) we need to start harassing law makers offices everyday 3) we need to vote and unite on what we want to protect our children and everyone around

[@philipstanco6011]

Nothing significant is going to happen in this government. There might be some small steps but I think that is about it. It’s disgusting.

[@istdochallesegal3427]

I'd thumbs-up your comment given its accuracy, but I just can't because it's so depressing... sorry!

[@rickc2078]

This government or any other US government, they are all bought spineless old men.

[@philipstanco6011]

@@istdochallesegal3427 No problem whatsoever.

[@istdochallesegal3427]

@@philipstanco6011 Thanks; changed my mind as promoting your comment to the algorithms at least confirms that not everyone believes 2A is about mindlessly arming the mindless...

[@SharraRosichan]

Can you just run for President? Please? Because I think you would nail it. You are the voice of our generation, sir.

[@sanderdeboer6034]

I am from the Netherlands and I would like to ask you to lookup how many shootings we have in our history. Not this month, this year, this decade, no our HISTORY! There is a wiki page for it, so try and find it. IT IS NOT 1.5 MASS SHOOTINGS A DAY, like in the USA! Found it? IT IS TWO! One in 2011 with 7 people death and 17 wounded. And one in 2019 with three people killed and seven injured. That last one would not even register as a mass shooting in the USA, where the threshold is 4 killed. And the first one was caused by a mistake made by the police. They didn’t follow the proper procedures when issuing a gun license to the shooter. While he had a recent mental illness history. Gun regulations do work, especially if they are properly controlled.

[@lindag4544]

I am totally in favor of gun control. but Netherlands population about 17 million compared to 330 million in the US….

[@markstyles1246]

@@lindag4544 So using that "logic" the Netherlands would have had 11 mass shootings this year, scaled for population...

[@edge918]

I am so sick of the filibuster stopping gun control 😡

[@kimclarke5018]

Troll one and two, STOP!

[@NashobaLusaTaloa]

@@kimclarke5018 Reported every single time I've seen them. And I read all comments.

[@mariadoyle5343]

@@NashobaLusaTaloa Good on you. I'm usually doing the same thing.

[@mrb152]

The filibuster is not. Democrats do not actually want to pass gun control. It's a wedge issue that they lose if they pass anything meaningful.

[@victoriadescalso6580]

Thank you so much!!! 😀❤️

[@DS-rt1ed]

Who is willing to stand up against the gun lobby, you ask? Beto O'Rourke...and he's got my vote here in Texas.

[@LoPhatKao]

"there was a mass shooting in the usa today, in other news - water is still wet" this shouldn't have to be an unfunny joke which is more valuable, your guns or your children?

[@raygunsforronnie847]

Guns, or the alleged "right" to unlimited ownership and use thereof. Nope, I don't like it, either.

[@ilenastarbreeze4978]

In america? Guns def guns

[@JuiceMyRandomness]

Those people who rave about “pro life”… I wish you cared about all life and you didn’t just pick and choose what life you want to protect.

[@IAmSuzyQ]

🕊️ May each of the individuals lost in today's school shooting rest in peace, and may their loved ones find it in time. They were our fellow Americans and they deserved better... It's time to STAND UP TO the NRA and it's supporters, and STAND UP FOR the lives of our children!