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  • @TheArnaa
    @TheArnaa Před rokem +178

    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
      @thatswhatisaid8908 Před rokem +11

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

    • @asheronwindspear552
      @asheronwindspear552 Před rokem +10

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

    • @faithpearlgenied-a5517
      @faithpearlgenied-a5517 Před rokem +17

      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
      @traekas7228 Před rokem +7

      🖖! 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
      @traekas7228 Před rokem +3

      @@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. 🤷🏻

  • @tamjk
    @tamjk Před rokem +35

    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.

  • @jpdemer5
    @jpdemer5 Před rokem +182

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

    • @tomk4t
      @tomk4t Před rokem +1

      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
      @tomk4t Před rokem +1

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

    • @jpdemer5
      @jpdemer5 Před rokem

      @@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
      @tomk4t Před rokem

      @@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
      @AhrimanThorn Před rokem +5

      @@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.

  • @BrokeredHeart
    @BrokeredHeart Před rokem +12

    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
      @catcardinalli197 Před rokem +1

      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
      @KohalaLover Před rokem

      You are both a sham and a shame.

  • @Waywardrosella
    @Waywardrosella Před rokem +79

    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
    @paulj8539 Před rokem +163

    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
      @harpreetjohal1531 Před rokem +14

      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
      @gmun2248 Před rokem +19

      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
      @gmun2248 Před rokem +10

      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
      @paulj8539 Před rokem +10

      @@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
      @silencedogood7297 Před rokem

      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
    @kristysuggs3282 Před rokem +5

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

  • @alexlandherr
    @alexlandherr Před rokem +16

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

  • @rgwak
    @rgwak Před rokem +156

    "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
      @kellylingro3288 Před rokem +8

      The saddest and darkest Onion article

    • @mrb152
      @mrb152 Před rokem +1

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

    • @trueriver1950
      @trueriver1950 Před rokem +9

      @@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
      @wayneperry7413 Před rokem +5

      @@trueriver1950 Bren won’t answer because they cant

    • @rgwak
      @rgwak Před rokem +4

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

  • @laalaa99stl
    @laalaa99stl Před rokem +2764

    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.

    • @peachtreedishes3170
      @peachtreedishes3170 Před rokem +24

      👍✌️

    • @whocares2087.1
      @whocares2087.1 Před rokem

      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
      @jembozaba4864 Před rokem

      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
      @piccalillipit9211 Před rokem

      *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
      @philipstanco6011 Před rokem +104

      Prayers don’t do one single thing.

  • @yohei72
    @yohei72 Před rokem +8

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

  • @abeatingheart8259
    @abeatingheart8259 Před rokem +1

    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?

  • @IAmSuzyQ
    @IAmSuzyQ Před rokem +3392

    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
      @beastfromthemiddleeast6369 Před rokem

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

    • @gamepapa1211
      @gamepapa1211 Před rokem +54

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

    • @kathybyerly7904
      @kathybyerly7904 Před rokem +38

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

    • @whiskyjames4200
      @whiskyjames4200 Před rokem +7

      YES!!!

    • @lo-keyloki9986
      @lo-keyloki9986 Před rokem +1

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

  • @tyaarmstrong2751
    @tyaarmstrong2751 Před rokem +43

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

    • @rickc2078
      @rickc2078 Před rokem +6

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

    • @ashkebora7262
      @ashkebora7262 Před rokem

      @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
      @faithpearlgenied-a5517 Před rokem

      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.

  • @xeroterragoth1866
    @xeroterragoth1866 Před rokem +17

    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.

  • @disappearintothesea
    @disappearintothesea Před rokem +3

    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. 😔

  • @reggiecantrell6193
    @reggiecantrell6193 Před rokem +582

    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
      @quickdiy8127 Před rokem

      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
      @TheJMPD Před rokem

      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
      @cc1k435 Před rokem

      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
      @roberthubert8429 Před rokem +43

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

    • @lovemesomeslippers
      @lovemesomeslippers Před rokem +28

      Keep voting intelligently so this never happens to you.

  • @Nygaard2
    @Nygaard2 Před rokem +44

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

  • @mrrsnlk03
    @mrrsnlk03 Před rokem +1

    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..

  • @jessicacaron5084
    @jessicacaron5084 Před rokem +5

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

  • @Nan-59
    @Nan-59 Před rokem +16

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  • @taun96
    @taun96 Před rokem +388

    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
      @nancysmith8626 Před rokem +60

      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
      @passionworksbodyshop9738 Před rokem +50

      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
      @lillia2479 Před rokem +19

      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
      @jaysonpida5379 Před rokem

      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
      @rickc2078 Před rokem

      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.

  • @oasntet
    @oasntet Před rokem +2

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

  • @archangelvvv
    @archangelvvv Před rokem

    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.

  • @gamepapa1211
    @gamepapa1211 Před rokem +181

    *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
      @gamerman782 Před rokem

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

    • @mayberelevant3237
      @mayberelevant3237 Před rokem

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

    • @roni6215
      @roni6215 Před rokem +6

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

    • @lurklingX
      @lurklingX Před rokem

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

    • @amyreynolds3619
      @amyreynolds3619 Před rokem +4

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

  • @amandarobinson3337
    @amandarobinson3337 Před rokem +436

    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
      @greenredblue Před rokem +6

      Sorry

    • @natashafrancis8858
      @natashafrancis8858 Před rokem +54

      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
      @toadjiang7626 Před rokem +52

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

    • @HashknightGaming
      @HashknightGaming Před rokem +26

      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
      @jackhammer7824 Před rokem +1

      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.

  • @eileendunn2130
    @eileendunn2130 Před rokem +1

    Bravo opening, Stephen! Thank you.

  • @Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming
    @Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming Před rokem +1

    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!

  • @brianag9726
    @brianag9726 Před rokem +520

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

    • @davidlane256
      @davidlane256 Před rokem +12

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

    • @joanne4758
      @joanne4758 Před rokem +17

      @@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
      @SeerWS Před rokem +4

      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
      @silencedogood7297 Před rokem

      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
      @eltorocal Před rokem

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

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 Před rokem +699

    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_
      @rhapsodyshadow_ Před rokem +6

      Wait, you're a Texan?

    • @njad3
      @njad3 Před rokem +68

      Abbot is as spineless as they come

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 Před rokem

      *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
      @isosebryl213 Před rokem +78

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

    • @philipstanco6011
      @philipstanco6011 Před rokem +25

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

  • @irayneman
    @irayneman Před rokem +1

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

  • @cinnyminnie
    @cinnyminnie Před rokem +3

    The jokes were funny, but for the first time, I couldn't even bring myself to laugh because I can't get over the fact that CHILDREN ARE BEING MURDERED AT SCHOOL

  • @j-genx2395
    @j-genx2395 Před rokem +641

    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
      @JohnnyVee007 Před rokem +38

      @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
      @bbyshady Před rokem +4

      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
      @JohnnyVee007 Před rokem +26

      @@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
      @gamepapa1211 Před rokem +18

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

    • @wayneburton8168
      @wayneburton8168 Před rokem +14

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

  • @Timelord774
    @Timelord774 Před rokem +88

    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
      @faithpearlgenied-a5517 Před rokem +11

      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
      @danixoxo8637 Před rokem +3

      Exactly!!!

    • @landonlandon5533
      @landonlandon5533 Před rokem

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

    • @tomisaacson2762
      @tomisaacson2762 Před rokem

      America's not really a democracy.

    • @brianwall9592
      @brianwall9592 Před rokem

      ​@@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! ??

  • @tomgbghva347
    @tomgbghva347 Před rokem +2

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

  • @JuiceMyRandomness
    @JuiceMyRandomness Před rokem +3

    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.

  • @sanderdeboer6034
    @sanderdeboer6034 Před rokem +7

    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
      @lindag4544 Před rokem +1

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

    • @markstyles1246
      @markstyles1246 Před rokem

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

  • @hostility3404
    @hostility3404 Před rokem +32

    Tired of prayers and thoughts, we need action.

    • @nartouzumaki8232
      @nartouzumaki8232 Před rokem +2

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

    • @Brandon_388
      @Brandon_388 Před rokem +1

      @@nartouzumaki8232 lol

    • @hostility3404
      @hostility3404 Před rokem

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

    • @nartouzumaki8232
      @nartouzumaki8232 Před rokem

      @@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
      @hostility3404 Před rokem +1

      @@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.

  • @bonitahobbs2097
    @bonitahobbs2097 Před rokem +1

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

  • @Amore825
    @Amore825 Před rokem +1

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

  • @arenc5619
    @arenc5619 Před rokem +321

    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
      @istdochallesegal3427 Před rokem +26

      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
      @thegoastofmccain5368 Před rokem

      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
      @christophertownsend3820 Před rokem +9

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

    • @shielanunn3484
      @shielanunn3484 Před rokem +7

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

    • @markmh835
      @markmh835 Před rokem +4

      @@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.....

  • @Emy53
    @Emy53 Před rokem +78

    "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
      @Echo81Rumple83 Před rokem

      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
      @HallelujahBK Před rokem

      *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
      @Dermatillomaniac Před rokem

      And neither does mental health support.

  • @Sandi-ke9mi
    @Sandi-ke9mi Před rokem

    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
      @susiestone5644 Před rokem

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

  • @TheBasher-_-
    @TheBasher-_- Před rokem +2

    When Brian Kemp legalized Carry without a permit he sealed the fact he will be GAs Governor for a long time to come. Sorry Stacy Abrams but you cant top that.

  • @cass_p
    @cass_p Před rokem +32

    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.

  • @dataglasses
    @dataglasses Před rokem +8

    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
      @Brandon_388 Před rokem

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

    • @dataglasses
      @dataglasses Před rokem

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

  • @rebeccanolan9623
    @rebeccanolan9623 Před rokem

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

  • @joseluisalc
    @joseluisalc Před rokem +1

    Nothing will change. That is the reality for the U.S. You just have to accept that as long as you are ruled by the same two party system this will just keep happening over and over again.

  • @Leonaza7
    @Leonaza7 Před rokem +832

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

    • @ha-zi
      @ha-zi Před rokem +24

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

    • @davidweyant9356
      @davidweyant9356 Před rokem

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

    • @Maya_Pinion
      @Maya_Pinion Před rokem +4

      ☮️

    • @jamesbowen2105
      @jamesbowen2105 Před rokem

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

    • @David-wk6md
      @David-wk6md Před rokem +4

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

  • @aileenbastos2750
    @aileenbastos2750 Před rokem +3

    I'm so glad to live in Connecticut. Sen. Chris Murphy won't stop fighting for gun control.

  • @Bluebell_55
    @Bluebell_55 Před rokem +1

    And, as we all know, nothing is going to change, at least not enough to actually make schools safe. The train has left the station.
    "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands . . . I'll be lying right next to my cold, dead child, who was gunned down at school."

  • @bonnierobinson8684
    @bonnierobinson8684 Před rokem +3

    Whenever you see a long line of men standing in front, its because they are in the wrong. Elect a younger better leader like Beto!

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 Před rokem +527

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

    • @mariadoyle5343
      @mariadoyle5343 Před rokem +15

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

    • @trudygreer2491
      @trudygreer2491 Před rokem +4

      @@mariadoyle5343 onomatopoetic!

    • @philipkoene5345
      @philipkoene5345 Před rokem +22

      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
      @cleverusername9369 Před rokem +5

      @@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
      @lurklingX Před rokem +4

      that one made me cackle out loud. brilliant.

  • @AlisVolatPropiis
    @AlisVolatPropiis Před rokem +75

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

    • @kgames1748
      @kgames1748 Před rokem

      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

  • @delfinevenson9594
    @delfinevenson9594 Před rokem

    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.

  • @eyanosasioux9575
    @eyanosasioux9575 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @dot8605
    @dot8605 Před rokem +5

    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.

  • @someperson4823
    @someperson4823 Před rokem +276

    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
      @julesmasseffectmusic Před rokem

      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.

    • @KombuchaBuzzed
      @KombuchaBuzzed Před rokem +13

      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
      @gabyyy8570 Před rokem +10

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

    • @gabyyy8570
      @gabyyy8570 Před rokem

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

    • @jcoopes5604
      @jcoopes5604 Před rokem +13

      Don’t be complacent! VOTE 🗳

  • @amandahudson431
    @amandahudson431 Před rokem

    People say this wont work, that wont work. Nothing will work, if we continue to do nothing😢😡

  • @stewiedarkinvisibleid
    @stewiedarkinvisibleid Před rokem +1

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

  • @Leonaza7
    @Leonaza7 Před rokem +42

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

  • @dyscotopia
    @dyscotopia Před rokem +82

    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
      @Karajorma Před rokem +10

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

    • @julesmasseffectmusic
      @julesmasseffectmusic Před rokem +5

      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
      @philipstanco6011 Před rokem +4

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

    • @benzaiten933
      @benzaiten933 Před rokem +1

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

    • @Karajorma
      @Karajorma Před rokem +1

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

  • @victoriadescalso6580
    @victoriadescalso6580 Před rokem

    Thank you so much!!! 😀❤️

  • @dannyaikin1395
    @dannyaikin1395 Před rokem

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

  • @irtwiaos
    @irtwiaos Před rokem +45

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

    • @TheDanishGuyReviews
      @TheDanishGuyReviews Před rokem +4

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

    • @oeleyinafe
      @oeleyinafe Před rokem +3

      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
      @roni6215 Před rokem

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

    • @mementomori7825
      @mementomori7825 Před rokem +1

      @@roni6215 no, you're not.

    • @roni6215
      @roni6215 Před rokem

      @@mementomori7825 Sarcasm ! Duh.

  • @LeeStJohn-ym4df
    @LeeStJohn-ym4df Před rokem +64

    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
      @owenmersk4626 Před rokem

      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
      @dudedude869 Před rokem

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

    • @rosalie4797
      @rosalie4797 Před rokem +2

      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
      @LeeStJohn-ym4df Před rokem +1

      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!

  • @tommyt1971
    @tommyt1971 Před rokem

    Perfectly stated, Mr Colbert.

  • @edsova5089
    @edsova5089 Před rokem +1

    I just picture a chicken fight where Trump has Perdue on his shoulders while Pence has Kemp on his shoulders and Kemp and Perdue are fighting

  • @patrickhobbs96
    @patrickhobbs96 Před rokem +24

    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
      @alexanderangelo7284 Před rokem

      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
      @patrickhobbs96 Před rokem

      @@alexanderangelo7284 Punished? Wow...

    • @alexanderangelo7284
      @alexanderangelo7284 Před rokem

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

    • @jude5976
      @jude5976 Před rokem +1

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

  • @alphtheor.879
    @alphtheor.879 Před rokem +42

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

    • @donnaarsenoff8399
      @donnaarsenoff8399 Před rokem

      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
      @mariadoyle5343 Před rokem +1

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

    • @lurklingX
      @lurklingX Před rokem +1

      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
      @cliffbungalow9373 Před rokem

      With russian dressing

    • @user-wt2me2fe5t
      @user-wt2me2fe5t Před rokem

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

  • @SharraRosichan
    @SharraRosichan Před rokem

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

  • @lukebird3142
    @lukebird3142 Před rokem

    It’s so refreshing to hear an American with a common sense perspective about this (although it’s probably the silent majority). I would encourage all Americans who think like this to make as much noise as they can right now to help stop any further mass shootings.

  • @gamepapa1211
    @gamepapa1211 Před rokem +19

    With regards to Texas, spare me your thoughts and prayers and give me your laws and actions NOW!

    • @mrb152
      @mrb152 Před rokem

      The Buffalo shooting happened in a state with all of the laws that have been suggested. Did nothing to stop it.

  • @blindkimberly1360
    @blindkimberly1360 Před rokem +727

    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
      @uptick888 Před rokem

      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
      @juanitaross5492 Před rokem

      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
      @scottingledue7999 Před rokem

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

    • @mercedeshaecker9006
      @mercedeshaecker9006 Před rokem

      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
      @veragruessner5540 Před rokem +1

      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.

  • @flyingcloud9253
    @flyingcloud9253 Před rokem

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

  • @FrayJaeBen
    @FrayJaeBen Před rokem +1

    It Keeps Happening..Clearly Something Needs To Change! 😔

  • @BernicePanders
    @BernicePanders Před rokem +177

    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
      @davidlundquist1979 Před rokem +6

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

    • @jcoopes5604
      @jcoopes5604 Před rokem

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

    • @lurklingX
      @lurklingX Před rokem

      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
      @vonn4017 Před rokem

      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
      @cathywethington5913 Před rokem +2

      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.

  • @kathyd9324
    @kathyd9324 Před rokem +41

    Food for thought -
    If all the pro-life activists focused their time on on ending deadly violence and war wouldn't they save many more lives?

    • @ruckusrevolution9475
      @ruckusrevolution9475 Před rokem +1

      Lol another meaningless comparison solution 🙄

    • @nartouzumaki8232
      @nartouzumaki8232 Před rokem

      ​@@ruckusrevolution9475 meaningless to Republicans .. and that's the problem isn't it

    • @ShadoeLandman
      @ShadoeLandman Před rokem +1

      They’re not interested in saving lives. They are only interested in control.

    • @lurklingX
      @lurklingX Před rokem +1

      yeah but the gun lobbyists and the donors..... ($$$$) and abortion is their favorite rally cry. it's not about what's right, or about actual pro-life. pro-life just means anti abortion and it's only there to get the red voters riled up and out to the polls. it's how they say the democrats are evil baby killers who want to steal ALL your guns. it's not about logic, but strategy. (logic that we would use based on what they say.)

  • @michaeldougherty8344
    @michaeldougherty8344 Před rokem

    Thank you Mr colbert for a great opening speech.

  • @seanpatrick1243
    @seanpatrick1243 Před rokem +1

    Pass REAL campaign finance reform that severely limits the power of money in politics and there will be no problem passing common sense gun laws, a reasonable immigration policy, health care reform and an energy policy that will secure our future.

  • @SpaceForceCommander
    @SpaceForceCommander Před rokem +139

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

    • @Brandon_388
      @Brandon_388 Před rokem

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

    • @UkeCan1
      @UkeCan1 Před rokem

      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
      @alexdasliebe5391 Před rokem +4

      and everyone loses. 😕

    • @lurklingX
      @lurklingX Před rokem +7

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

    • @trueriver1950
      @trueriver1950 Před rokem

      Trump quoted as saying that puts Perdue in lead

  • @ziqi92
    @ziqi92 Před rokem +531

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

    • @matthewlasalvia7026
      @matthewlasalvia7026 Před rokem +41

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

    • @gmun2248
      @gmun2248 Před rokem +23

      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
      @mariadoyle5343 Před rokem +13

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

    • @ShadoeLandman
      @ShadoeLandman Před rokem +24

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

    • @suzannarobinson4726
      @suzannarobinson4726 Před rokem +2

      Good plan!

  • @AW-xv7dq
    @AW-xv7dq Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @wrenlinwhitelight3007
    @wrenlinwhitelight3007 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @DS-rt1ed
    @DS-rt1ed Před rokem +9

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

  • @judithbradford9130
    @judithbradford9130 Před rokem +7

    LOL: Musk didn't "use" a flight attendant BECAUSE SHE WOULDN'T LET HIM!

  • @TheEvertw
    @TheEvertw Před rokem +1

    Bless Stephen for showing his emotions.

  • @amy4ever2010
    @amy4ever2010 Před rokem

    U r the best Sir 👌

  • @ashleyreitz7375
    @ashleyreitz7375 Před rokem +17

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

  • @idacoetzee
    @idacoetzee Před rokem +64

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

    • @lurklingX
      @lurklingX Před rokem +3

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

  • @oldones59
    @oldones59 Před rokem

    Stephen, I second your motion ⚖ 👩‍⚖️ 👦 ❤

  • @ellenlansburgh8261
    @ellenlansburgh8261 Před rokem

    good work stephen!!!

  • @B_Bodziak
    @B_Bodziak Před rokem +107

    It's a shame the GOP isn't as passionate about keeping guns out of schools as they are about keeping women out of abortion clinics. It's just another example of how the GOP doesn't give 2 cents about children after they're born.

    • @NoobSaibotMK666
      @NoobSaibotMK666 Před rokem +5

      Truth! 💯

    • @antondovydaitis2261
      @antondovydaitis2261 Před rokem

      Every one of those children is a Martyr for Freedom!

    • @mrb152
      @mrb152 Před rokem

      Democrats think putting a sign up keeps guns out of schools. Republicans want to have the same protections for schools that politicians have for themselves.

    • @spaceman9599
      @spaceman9599 Před rokem

      Confronting their paymasters is hard, legislating to own women's bodies is easy, for these sad clowns.

    • @jessprice6468
      @jessprice6468 Před rokem

      Ever notice how Democrats support planned parenthood? Now are you aware planned parenthood was placed in predominantly black communities? Wonder why Democrats support it so much.

  • @IAmSuzyQ
    @IAmSuzyQ Před rokem +14

    🕊️ 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!

  • @Quantum-1157
    @Quantum-1157 Před rokem +1

    Poor Otto von Bismarck. Little did he realize that taking steps to unify Germany under Prussian influence in the 1860s would lead to jokes about his name and authoritarianism 150 years later!

  • @witchypoorose5196
    @witchypoorose5196 Před rokem

    Thank you Mr. Colbert.
    😞🕯

  • @edge918
    @edge918 Před rokem +56

    I am so sick of the filibuster stopping gun control 😡

    • @kimclarke5018
      @kimclarke5018 Před rokem +3

      Troll one and two, STOP!

    • @NashobaLusaTaloa
      @NashobaLusaTaloa Před rokem +1

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

    • @mariadoyle5343
      @mariadoyle5343 Před rokem

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

    • @mrb152
      @mrb152 Před rokem

      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.

  • @xelamercedes
    @xelamercedes Před rokem +22

    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
      @lurklingX Před rokem

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

    • @AlanSmitheeman
      @AlanSmitheeman Před rokem

      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.

  • @paulkruse9004
    @paulkruse9004 Před rokem

    There's nether very fine people on both sides...Well said Steven...Well said!

  • @ryanalopez3078
    @ryanalopez3078 Před rokem

    Agreed 💯